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