Originally posted by CinemaBlend

The Coen Brothers have been busy preparing the cast for their highly anticipated next project, 'Inside Llewelyn Davis, in which the lead role has gone to Justin Timberlake. The boy-bander turned solo artist turned actor has had no trouble getting movie parts in his relatively short career and his strong performances show he’s got chops.

Doubtlessly, his singing ability will be called upon in the movie, which centers on Greenwich Village’s ‘60s folk music scene. Timberlake portrays the lead role as Jim, an aspiring folk singer who is mentored by the title character, to be played by Oscar Isaac. Carey Mulligan will play Jim’s wife, Jean.

Working with the famed directors can only help Timberlake’s budding career and a movie like this could provide his greatest opportunity to date.

Filming of the movie started yesterday.

Originally posted by MrBeyonceFan

why is he still working on movies

Originally posted by SignUp

This has to be a joke. The last movie I watched of him was Bad Teacher. He was terrible. I cringed.

Originally posted by MrBeyonceFan

why is he still working on movies

Originally posted by SignUp

This has to be a joke. The last movie I watched of him was Bad Teacher. He was terrible. I cringed.

Originally posted by MrDeeds

In Time was also horrible.

Originally posted by Movie Line

Timberlake is shaping up to be a marvelous actor, and his evolution didn't begin with his slick, alluring turn as Sean Parker in The Social Network. He was terrific in Craig Brewer's 2006 Black Snake Moan, and his comic timing, in pictures like last summer's Bad Teacher, is sly and acute. He's great fun to watch here. He has a casual, playful frisson that both offsets and enhances the movie's deeper meaning.

Originally posted by Chicago Sun-Times

Justin Timberlake continues to demonstrate that he is a real actor, with screen presence. He has a future in the movies.

Originally posted by Village Voice

Timberlake proves, as he did in Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales, his agility in dystopic thrillers.

Originally posted by Variety

Niccol stages shootouts and chase scenes that take full advantage of Timberlake's action-hero potential.

Originally posted by Salon

On my way out of the New York preview screening of “In Time,” I overheard another moviegoer cheerfully describing what he had just seen as a “Marxist propaganda film.” So it wasn’t just me. But it says something about our times, I guess, that the phrase would even come up in reference to a motion picture that could just as well be called grade-B dystopian sci-fi, or a successful attempt to position Timberlake as an action star.

Originally posted by Reelviews

Justin Timberlake, a capable actor with potentially strong screen presences, is criminally underused. He isn't given much more to do than play a generic action hero.

Originally posted by The Globe and Mail

Although it’s hardly an actor’s film, Timberlake is always competent, but Seyfried struggles with this gun-toting transition, and settles for hiding behind a Louise Brooks bob that accentuates her bug-eyed stare – she looks like a Kewpie doll toting G.I. Joe’s bazooka.

Originally posted by Washintong Post

What is a surprise is that the film - starring Justin Timberlake as a Robin Hood-like character who gives new meaning to the term "time bandit" - is not just thoughtful, but brisk and engaging.

Originally posted by Orlando Sentiel

Timberlake is both adequate and epic in this leading man turn.

Originally posted by Miami Herald

Timberlake fares even better as an action hero than he did as a comedic leading man in Friends with Benefits, even though he gets weak support from Seyfried (whose character earns a surprising number of laughs)

Originally posted by TIME

Timberlake has the steely visage and stubbled cheeks for a rogue hero, but Seyfried, has trouble connecting with Sylvia’s inner rebellious streak or, for that matter, lending urgency to her line readings. The film’s crucial failing, though, is that Niccol’s imagination is vigorously literary but not thrillingly cinematic.

Originally posted by Entertainment Weekly

Timberlake, in his best scenes, reminds you that he really is a natural actor.

Originally posted by LA Times

"In Time" was supposed to turn Timberlake into a superhero, though given the way he manages a fairly massive pop career with an increasingly impressive acting portfolio, that may not be necessary. He brings an interesting sensibility to his characters, Will included, that suggest a complex interior that "In Time" never quite reveals. The opposite goes for Seyfried, who can do a lot more than use those big eyes and sleek lines.

Originally posted by Rolling Stone

Naturally, Will aims to bring Sylvia's daddy down, giving Timberlake a chance to show his action chops, which reveal he's in top shape.

Originally posted by The Hollywood Reporter

Timberlake capably carries the film with a glint of true rebelliousness.

Originally posted by Slant

And though her performance takes on a bit more life once her character becomes an empowered revolutionary, the short-coiffed Seyfried is a somewhat dull, cold love interest for these fashion model-sleek proceedings. Timberlake, however, generates enough heat on his own to keep the film enlivened, bringing to his wronged-man role a working-class grit that keeps the performance honest, and yet also a requisite degree of suave badass cockiness to help sell Niccol's well-staged on-foot and car chases.

Originally posted by Accra

I always feel like I'm watching "Justin Timberlake act" as opposed to a character he's trying to get across. His only strength on screen is the confidence he exudes.

Originally posted by SignUp

I thought the same. His determination to breakthrough reminds me of Nicole Scherzinger.

Originally posted by CaptainMusic

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The producers want dat #Cake.

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