88 Minutes is the sort of overblown thriller in which every action, no matter how insignificant, is pregnant with portent, yet it's a film of nothing but red herrings.
CommentJul 12, 2009
88 Minutes (2008)
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Reviews Counted:120
Fresh:6
Rotten:114
Average Rating:2.6/10
Consensus: 88 Minutes is a shockingly inept psychological thriller that expertly squanders the talent at hand.
Theatrical Release: Apr 18, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $16.9M
Synopsis: A thriller about a college professor who, while moonlighting as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI, receives a death threat telling him that he has... [More]
Starring: Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobieski, Amy Brenneman
Director: Jon Avnet
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REVIEWS FOR 88 MINUTES
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Feb 12, 2009
The overwrought production, sieve-like plot and ludicrous characters merge into something genuinely hilarious. But that's clearly not what cast and crew were going for.
Oct 3, 2008
Ridiculous and ultimately disappointing thriller that stays just about watchable thanks to an amusing pair of performances by Shouty Al and his hairpiece.
Oct 3, 2008
THE WORST FILM OF THE YEAR.
Oct 3, 2008
Pacino looks half asleep throughout, no doubt concentrating solely on his cheque, while the script is a catalogue of clichés and contrivances.
Oct 3, 2008
Good Sunday afternoon entertainment but it won’t hang around the multiplex for long.
Oct 3, 2008
Full of dreadful turns and awful dialogue (“There’s been a breach in my most secure area!” mutters Al at one point), 88 Minutes is 107 too long.
Oct 3, 2008
It's called Eighty Eight minutes. But, in fact, it's one hundred and seven minutes of your life that you lose should you persevere with this witless thriller.
Oct 3, 2008
Interestingly, the more overblown and insincere a performance Pacino delivers in a film, the more self-important and bouffant his hair gets. Here, it’s so towering it takes up 90 per cent of the screen.
Oct 3, 2008
There are more thrilling ways to spend 88 minutes, like counting from one to 5,208.
Oct 3, 2008
Now that this stupendously inept serial-killer flick has slithered into theaters, the diminutive legend had better clear room in his closet for another cinematic skeleton.
Oct 3, 2008
It verges on so-bad-it’s-good territory, but just isn’t entertaining enough. Lacking in tension and pace, poorly edited and starring wholly unsympathetic characters, this is just dull, drab and boring.
Oct 3, 2008
The kindest thing one can say is that director Jon Avnet and screenwriter Gary Scott Thompson bought a flatpack version of a thriller and then couldn't follow the instructions. Manuals can be confusing.
Oct 2, 2008
The movie runs blandly through its paces without generating an ounce of tension or suspense.
Sep 19, 2008
I should have walked out after 8 minutes.
Sep 14, 2008
While 88 Minutes is no 3:10 To Yuma, this beat-the-clock escape artist fare that's light on logic and heavy on the shoe leather, sustains sufficient breathlessly nerve-jangling lockdown for the duration, despite a couple of weirdly situated plot holes.
Sep 9, 2008
The film is a disaster in every way possible. I have rarely seen a big budget, star studded, major studio motion picture flop this hard.
Jun 8, 2008
When they were counting down the 88 minutes, I just kept saying to myself, "oh man, this movie still has 72 minutes left?" "Oh man, this movie has 17 minutes left?" I just couldn't wait to get out of the theatre.
May 13, 2008
This is an excruciating "88 Minutes."
May 10, 2008
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