out of time

Director: carl franklin

Actor: denzel washington,sanaa lathan,eva mendes,dean cain

Data Published: Fri Oct 03 2003

Genres: Crime,Drama,Mystery,Thriller

Key Words: florida noir,cell phone,woman murders a man,shooting a woman,deception

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0313443/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_Time_(2003_film)

Description: Out of Time is a movie starring Denzel Washington, Sanaa Lathan, and Eva Mendes. A Florida police chief must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion.

Plot: Matthias "Matt" Lee Whitlock (Denzel Washington) is the respected Chief of Police of the fictional Florida Keys small town of Banyan Key, Florida. He has recently executed a successful, high-profile drug bust that turned up $450,000 in drug money. Although he enjoys his job, his drinking while on duty is an obvious character flaw, exacerbated by his pending divorce from his wife, homicide detective Alex Diaz Whitlock (Eva Mendes). Matt is currently seeing local resident Anne Merai-Harrison (Sanaa Lathan), whose husband Chris (Dean Cain), a former professional quarterback turned security guard, abuses her. Matt then learns that Anne has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Anne intends to reward Matt's loyalty to her by making him the sole beneficiary of her $1,000,000 life insurance policy. Matt tries to find a way to give Anne some hope and suggests that she should travel to Switzerland to undergo a newly-developed, groundbreaking treatment. The problem is that Anne has been living beyond her means and does not have any money. Desperate to help her, Matt bends the rules and lends her the $450,000 so she can make the trip. When the $450,000 goes up in flames in a suspicious house fire that supposedly kills Anne and Chris, Matt finds himself in a great deal of trouble. Not only is the money now gone, but Matt knows that even though he is innocent, circumstantial evidence – such as the insurance policy and the fact that he had been seeing Anne – could make him the prime suspect. The Drug Enforcement Administration agents call the next day to get the payment in order to bust a higher drug lord using currency serial numbers, Matt responds erratically. He also finds about a person whom Anne has been visited by. He finds out that the money is now with this new person and that Alex is about to bust him. He rushes to the hotel and accidentally kills the stranger, takes the money and flees. Although Matt is seen by the police, he is thought to have come to protect Alex. Later that evening, Alex finds that Matt is Anne's sole beneficiary and also that he has been visiting her. At the same time, Matt receives a distress call from Anne and unofficially goes to save her. Chris and Matt fight, Anne shoots and kills Chris. Then Anne reveals that she had planned all of this and shoots Matt in the leg. When Anne is about to kill Matt, Alex kills her as she had traced him using a GPS tracker and asks him whether he planned to elope with the money. But Matt reveals that he has not brought the money with him. When the irritated DEA agents come to arrest Matt as he had promised the money delivery by noon and it was 7pm, he says that his man was sent to Miami, and simultaneously Chae appears with the money, telling a wrong address and that he could not find the DEA office. So the DEA agents leave with the money and Matt has no charges on him. Later, when Matt is on medical leave, Chae visits him with news that Matt now owns $1 million USD, which is Anne's insurance money. But Alex says that, "as his wife," she knows that Matt has reject it, meaning that she has decided to drop the divorce and move back in with Matt. Overjoyed, Matt seemingly forgets about the life insurance money, though Chae is amusingly adamant that Matt must take it.