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88 Minutes
TriStar Pictures (Sony)
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for disturbing violent content, brief nudity and language
Starring
Al Pacino,
Alicia Witt,
Leelee Sobieski,
Amy Brenneman,
Deborah Kara Unger,
Benjamin McKenzie,
and
Neal McDonough
In 88 Minutes, Dr. Jack Gramm, a college professor who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI. When Gramm receives a death threat claiming he has only 88 minutes to live, he must use all his skills and training to narrow down the possible suspects, who include a disgruntled student, a jilted former lover, and a serial killer who is already on death row, before his time runs out. (TriStar Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Crime
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Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Gary Scott Thompson
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Jon Avnet
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| RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: April 18, 2008
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| RUNNING TIME: |
108 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Germany / USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
If you're like me and think that any Pacino movie is sort of worth seeing, so long as he never says, "Hoo-ha," then 88 Minutes won't be a total disappointment.

40
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
The picture is humorless and witless. The barrage of allegedly important details is supposed to keep us intrigued, but it barely keeps us occupied.

38
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
88 Minutes proves itself to be a maddeningly mediocre, ineptly manipulative "real-time" thriller.

33
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
This business of the 88 minutes ticking away is a pale imitation of the old "High Noon" ploy of playing out suspense in real time. After a while, though, I began to take a perverse pleasure in wallowing in the awfulness of it all.

30
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Although it's often laugh-out-loud laughably bad, 88 Minutes is mostly just a slog.

30
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Not merely Pacino's over-mannered, near-histrionic performance, but the movie itself could be characterized as busy, busy, busy. It's so full of plot twists and revelations and exploding sports cars that its very perkiness comes to seem comic.

30
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
Compare 88 Minutes with "Sea of Love," another murder mystery that Pacino made, in 1989, and you find him sporting the same loud ties, but everything else has leached away: suspense, credibility, wit, and the lost art of flirtation.

30
New York Magazine
David Edelstein
Forget Pacino; it’s all those red herrings that reek.

30
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
Al Pacino chews up so much scenery it's surprising there's any left by the end of this fetid thriller.

25
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
I'm guessing it's the pressure of an idiot script by Gary Scott Thompson and understandably clueless direction from Jon Avnet that forces Pacino to ham it up so vigorously that you want to garnish him with cloves and a slice of pineapple.

25
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
This is easily one of the silliest, most preposterous thrillers ever made, and the only reason it didn't go straight to video has to be that it stars Pacino.

25
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
I've seen Pacino over the edge. This is not it. He looks pooped and pickled. Maybe being the only thing standing between a megaplex opening and a trip straight to the $4.99 bin at Target wiped him out.

25
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
The preposterous 88 Minutes is a serial killer movie starring Al Pacino's festival of hair.

25
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
One of the dumbest thrillers to arrive it theaters in a long time.

25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Preposterous, empty-headed and tedious.

25
USA Today
Claudia Puig
This may be the most preposterous movie of the year. It is certainly the most ridiculous movie starring an Oscar-winning actor.

25
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
A preposterous misfire.

25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
Every actor and actress involved seems to have been instructed to act as guilty as possible and, in this at least, they're entirely convincing. Not guilty of murder, perhaps, but of a really unfortunate career choice.

20
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
This ridiculous thriller would be hard-pressed to last much longer than its title in theaters before doing time on DVD, as is already the case in many overseas territories.

20
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
One small step for bad filmmaking and one giant leap for the increasing insignificance of the former Michael Corleone.

20
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Attica! Attica! Everyone involved in the creation of this muddled, joyless, and deadly dull serial killer-meets-forensic psychiatrist snoozefest should be forced to spend – at the very least – 88 minutes behind Attica's bars.

16
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
Actually, it's pretty much the definition of absurd.

12
New York Post
Kyle Smith
88 Minutes holds you in a state of acute suspense, keeping you wondering until the very last minute whether this is the worst Al Pacino movie ever made.

10
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Ludicrous in the extreme, the picture easily snatches from "Revolution" the prize as Al Pacino's career worst.

0
Village Voice
Ella Taylor
We may have to sit through worse films to come this year, but with any luck, there'll be none as guilelessly, idiotically misogynist as this one.

0
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
A stinker, the more so for the thespian excesses of the accomplished cast.

0
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
This slimy, slug-minded mystery thriller starts out dead on arrival and then, like three-day-old fish, gets really bad really fast.


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