THE WORST FILM OF THE YEAR.
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10/03/08
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: $16,930,884
Synopsis: In 88 MINUTES, Dr. Jack Gramm (Al Pacino), a Seattle-based college professor and forensic psychiatrist, is informed by an enigmatic caller that he has exactly that amount of time to live. The... [More]
Starring: Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobieski, Amy Brenneman
Director: Jon Avnet
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Reviews for 88 Minutes
Given that 88 Minutes actually runs 108 minutes, it's tempting to make the joke that the movie is 20 minutes too long. In actuality, it's 108 minutes too long.
05/01/08
What a bore. I guessed the identity of the killer from the character's second appearance, and I'm not that smart.
04/18/08
brightened only by its fleeting moments of unintentional humor
04/16/08
Is it as bad as everyone says? Why, yes! It is!
04/24/08
Nothing would give me keener pleasure than to reveal the identity of the killer, but a day after seeing the film I have genuinely forgotten.
04/21/08
88 Minutes plays like a script Tom Cruise rejected back in the ’90s, forcing Pacino to run -- across campus, across town, through parking garages, up and down stairs.
04/16/08
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.
06/08/08
The film had no opening credits, except for the title 88 Minutes. Maybe that's because no one wanted to take credit for this mess.
04/18/08
'88 Minutes' is a muddled, low-quality thriller.
04/19/08
While the actual ending does give audiences a reason to cheer, it's the final fade out that will make viewers the happiest. It means this tepid terror is finally over.
04/18/08
"88 Minutes" is one of those thrillers in which characters seem to run all over the place and talk a lot on cell phones. Yet nothing really seems to get accomplished.
04/18/08
Lord in Heaven, how does stuff like this happen?
05/04/08
How Al Pacino found himself roped into this wacky movie is another mystery entirely and one that doesn't take much research past the words "yacht payment" to solve.
04/16/08
It's the first time that Pacino is overwhelmed by the awfulness of what surrounds him and simply drowns in the tide of bullsh*t, making this one of the only times that we can't even say "See it for Al."
04/18/08
I won't bother to catalog the movie's lapses in logic. Actually, it's misleading to call them lapses, because I'm hard-pressed to recall any logic to lapse from.
04/18/08
Pacino feels like a bankable source to disguise mediocrity but a dud is a dud and Avnet is wholly indifferent
04/17/08
The script is a confused jumble that director Jon Avnet cannot wrestle into shape.
04/18/08
Let's start up a collection so Al Pacino doesn't feel the need to take paycheck movies like 88 Minutes
04/17/08
Essentially, it's 88 distracting minutes of watching Al Pacino work the hell out of his formidable fright wig.
04/18/08
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September 09, 2008:
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