Alicia
I love this movie so much
BelSports
This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
Jenni Devyn
Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
mathisdiabate-85225
Un film pour rien. Tout est nul du début à la fin.
The Grand Master
88 Minutes is a waste of quality talent in this poor excuse for a movie. What on earth is the legendary Al Pacino (The Godfather, Scarface, Heat) doing here?! Surely he could have been a redeeming feature however his talent is completely wasted. He is certainly a shadow of his former self here.You can also throw in Alicia Witt (Urban Legend, Two Weeks Notice), Leelee Sobieski (Eyes Wide Shut, Roadkill), William Forsythe (The Rock, Out For Justice), Deborah Kara Unger (The Game, The Hurricane), Amy Brenneman (NYPD Blue, Judging Amy), Neal McDonough (Band Of Brothers, Minority Report) and Ben McKenzie (Southland, Gotham) who can consider this movie to be a black mark on their filmography.The plot itself was very unoriginal and derivative, and I'm not going to bother going into details here. All I can say is that this is one of Al Pacino's worst movies that he has ever done.I was so disgusted with how bad this movie was I didn't even bother finishing it.Don't bother with this movie, and don't waste your time.1/10.
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Like Nick Of Time, 88 minutes runs in real running film time, kind of. Al Pacino, a criminal psychologist/specialist, responsible for delivering grand justice which sees a psychopath, Mcdonough, about to fry, for committing the brutal murder of a young Asian girl. The sister was very grateful towards Pacino, who I must admit, has done better acting then what's on offer here. This could also be the day, which sees Pacino buy the farm, where he's received an anonymous phone call, from someone telling him. he has 88 minutes to live where may'be he can vouch to see one last Seagal movie. What's interesting here, is that this phone threat and he receives other ones in that duration, is also connected with Mcdonough, who could very hold the key to putting a stop on the trigger where he's stalled execution could buy Pacino some time. 88 Minutes I must say is tastefully entertaining and involving, and has a tight back story but it's never really suspenseful. It really fails here, but in the thriller aspect it's quite good. The manipulator of ill will towards Pacino, I never made out, and will come as a surprise. A B grade suited flick, 88 Minutes is, while being very entertaining, the film terribly comes across as just that, B grade, a step by step film if you will, that's terribly average, where most of Pacino's other films are better than this, that really show this one up. The end was very climactic, though, and there are a couple of tense plotted situations. Pacino, and it's original premise, does give cause to watch it, though Al won't really earn any acting honors with you here.
TheMarwood
Pacino looks like he's melting on screen and starting the film off watching this geezer dancing like he's hip in a trendy club in slow motion is comically off the mark and absurd. 88 Minutes is unfortunately 108 minutes and wisely director James Foley, who worked with Pacino on Glengarry Glen Ross left the project before shooting began and was replaced by the less than stellar Jon Avnet. This stinker rotted on the shelf for over two years before being released to critics who disemboweled it and audiences who ignored it. In what I can only assume what was written for a much, MUCH younger leading man, Pacino is about as hilariously miscast as they come. Women swoon over him and he has the sexual voracity of a 20 year old, yet beyond offering an AARP discount to these women, Pacino is about as off putting as abandoned soiled underwear. Once the high concept plot kicks in, we're subjected to leaps of logic and and really terrible Leelee Sobieski acting. Everyone is a red herring and the killer(s) motives are so convoluted and complicated that the plot depends on the most ludicrous decisions and senseless actions ever made by a thinking race.http://www.boxofficeflops.com/yearly-breakdowns/2008-2/88-minutes/
