Outta
Time is a low-budget thriller, directed by Lorena
David, featuring handsome and muscular Mario Lopez, who plays
a college student named David Morales. David is pleasing his
mother Gloriana (played by Dyana Ortelli), who lives in Tijuana,
because he is close to graduating from college, the first
in his family to so. David's athletic scholarship is in jeopardy,
however, because he injured his knee; after a year of physical
therapy, he has not sufficiently recovered, so he is kicked
off the soccer team. Looking for a job to pay for his education,
he is spotted at a medical research clinic by Dr. Jonas Darabont
(played by John Saxon), an unprofessorial professor who tells
him that there is big money in transporting illegal medicines
across the border to Tijuana. Somehow Darabont guesses correctly
that David can cross the border to visit his mama without
having the authorities search him. What David does not know
is that the final shipment contains a human heart to be transplanted
into the body of a mobster (played by Richard Lynch) whom
the FBI eagerly seeks. Meanwhile, the FBI somehow learns that
David is the courier for the gangster's medicines. Rather
than going to Tijuana to capture the mobster, FBI officials
track down David, wiring his apartment so that he be frightened
when he flicks on a switch in his bathroom. David, however,
summons the apartment manager when he discovers the bathroom
floor flooded, and the manager dies when he investigates the
problem, whereupon the FBI calls him to say anonymously that
they are after him. David then flees, picks up the last shipment,
and eventually meets Bella (played by Ali Landry), a fugitive
who has managed to hijack the squadcar of local police who
arrested her. After selling the squadcar to a chop shop proprietor,
they both seek to evade capture, get better acquainted, end
up in the sack, and try to cross over the border into México.
David is in a hurry, as the gangsters have kidnapped David's
mother, pending delivery of the last shipment; they are almost
"outta time" before the heart will no longer be
useful for the necessary transplant operation. In the final
scenes the violence level is turned up, David saves his mom,
kills the gangster, and gets the girl. MH
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