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Synopsis: A college professor (Al Pacino), who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI, receives a death threat that says he has only 88 minutes to live. To save his life, he must use all his skills and training to narrow down the possible suspects, which include a disgruntled student, a jilted former lover and a serial killer on death row.
Starring: Al Pacino, Alicia Witt
Supporting actors: Leelee Sobieski, Amy Brenneman, William Forsythe, Deborah Kara Unger, Ben McKenzie, Neal McDonough, Leah Cairns, Stephen Moyer, Christopher Redman, Trilby Glover, Damien Leake, Brendan Fletcher, Michael Eklund, Kristina Copeland, Tammy Hui, Vicky Huang, Bob Stephenson, Philip Moon, Victoria Tennant, Michal Yannai
Directed by: Jon Avnet
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Mystery
Runtime: 1 hour 48 minutes
Release year: 2008
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
MPAA Rating: Rated R for disturbing violent content, brief nudity and language.
ASIN: B001G6DXLK
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #5,553 in Amazon Video On Demand (See Bestsellers in Amazon Video On Demand)
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88 Minutes DVD ~ Al Pacino

2.5 out of 5 stars (84) $10.99
Theatrical Release Information
  • US Theatrical Release Date: April 18, 2008
  • MPAA: Rated R for disturbing violent content, brief nudity and language.
  • Production Company: TriStar Pictures, Millennium Films, Emmett/Furla Films, Equity Pictures Medienfonds GmbH & Co. KG III, Nu Image Entertainment GmbH, Brightlight Pictures, Brooklyn Films, Family Room Entertainment
  • Also Known As: 88 / 88: 88 Minutes
  • Filming Locations: Koerner Plaza, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | Vancouver Public Library, 360 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | Seattle, Washington, USA | Yaletown, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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22 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Stale and overdone Pacino vehicle, October 11, 2008
This review is from: 88 Minutes (DVD)
88 Minutes is a tried and true "whodunit" shock/thriller clone that may entertain briefly but is at best a guilty pleasure. The story is a Hollywood teaser line: A renown forensic psychologist (Pacino) testifies against a serial killer and then 9 years later on the day of the killer's execution gets a phone call that he has 88 minutes to live.

This may be enough to get Hollywood producers frothing at the mouth and shelling out money, but this is a classic case of a movie that should have stayed a trailer-- the concept fits best into a 30-second package. Watching this movie is like eating a stale doughnut: You see it in the box with all of yesterdays crumbs and think, "That can't be very good, but I want it." You eat it. And then you regret it until the next stale doughnut comes along.

There are 3 main problems to this movie:

1. Pacino plays Pacino: Like Harrison Ford and Clint Eastwood, Al Pacino is getting old (sorry, but it's true). This movie showcases that by juxtaposing him with a class of young co-eds that he supposedly teaches psychology to and having him flirt with them in a decidedly "dirty old man" way. Never in this movie do you think "This is Dr. Gramm, the brilliant and famous forensic psychologist." No, this is Al Pacino stumbling around and yelling into a cell phone every five minutes. As the plot unfolds (more on that later), Pacino combats the killer with cantankerous "hoo-ha!" instead of a psychologist's keen insight. And after the movie nobody even remembers his character's name; it's just Pacino. That might be ok, except that it's an old, grumpy Pacino who refuses to be filmed opposite a female over the age of 25.

2. The Plot: This is an Agatha Christie whodunit with all the investigating stripped out and replaced with shock/gore. It starts with the initial murder which has that sicko-rapist creepiness, and then once it gets going with the "88 minutes" it's just one red herring suspect after another (complete with altered flashbacks and ominous music when you see them).

3. Lack of Characters: There aren't any characters in this movie. Period. There's Pacino playing himself. There are a bunch of vapid co-eds. There's a generic serial killer with no personality (other than he likes to kill/rape people). And that's it. Pacino gets a tragic backstory, but it's the same family trauma crap we see in every crime protagonist. Everyone else is just window dressing: victims, suspects, people for Pacino to say "Hoo-ha!" to on the cell phone (I think at its core this is a cell phone commercial).

In short, unless you really like Pacino and cell phones and wonder how much Hollywood makeup can make him look like a leading man again (similar to the morbid curiosity of watching the last Indiana Jones movie), don't rent or buy this movie.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Worse than my 2nd grade creative writing assignment, October 15, 2008
This review is from: 88 Minutes (+ BD Live) [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
Wow, this was terrible. Almost impressively so. Red Herrings? Hah, mildly pink tadpoles is more like it. There alleged twists and potential suspects are so thin that it only occured to me after the fact that I was supposed to take them seriously.

It's never a good idea to have the main character be a complete moron. My favourite scene is the one where he spies a suspicious character for the 4th time (he'd chased him the 3rd time but lost him) and just watches him walk away without doing anything. ("Hmm, you got away this time mystery-man because my car is this way, and you're walking that way...")

I have a long list of scenes from this movie that I love to hate. ("I wonder where he went after the party." Oh wait, he was at the party? So that guy was your ex? Perhaps we should have established that before moving on to where he went after the party?) But I can't go into them all here because it's only fun if you've seen the movie and want to laugh along with me. At the movie.

My favourite though, is the alternate ending. True enough, there is a additional scene in the alternate version but, if you choose to watch the alternate ending (which would likely be, as I did, immediately after having just watched the regular ending) you will first have to watch the entire last 6 minutes of the movie. Yes, 6 minutes. 360 seconds. I could make a movie of my face watching it and call it 360 seconds, my face was so contorted in disbelief that they would actually show the entire final 6 minutes with no changes whatsoever (not one) and then tack on a 2 minute section. I don't mind the 88 minutes, or the 2 minutes, it's those 6 minutes that killed me.

My 2nd grade ('3rd Form' as it was known in those days in that place) creative writing assignment was actually a lot better than this movie, I'll have to tell you about it sometime. It involved frogs, cowboys and, oddly enough, a crazy-haired Al Pacino.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Can't Believe It?, October 12, 2008
This review is from: 88 Minutes (DVD)
Can't believe Pacino was in a movie this BAD and can't believe I actually watched it all the way to the end. Both plot and acting were terrible!!
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1.0 out of 5 stars Tick Tock, is it over yet?
As bad as it gets. I love Pacino but even he couldn't bring this garbage to life. Leelee Sobieski was the bad one? Read more
Published 9 days ago by S. Sandoval

1.0 out of 5 stars Pacino Looks As Bored In The Movie As The Audience Watching It
Just caught this on cable tv and I am thankful for three things after watching it:

1. I did not pay money to see it in the theaters
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Published 13 days ago by YJM

5.0 out of 5 stars Review of 88 Minutes
This is a fantastic movie. I love Al Pacino and this movie was not a dissapointment. Lots of action and suspense and until the end, I was held to my seat.
Published 1 month ago by Margie

5.0 out of 5 stars 88 minutes
Good movie, but when is Al pacino ever in a bad one. It was suspenseful and exciting. i recommend to anyone
Published 2 months ago by Stacey L. Harris

2.0 out of 5 stars Tick Tock Al, It's The Sound Of Your Career Running Out
I love Al Pacino and have watched him in many a bad movie. Even when the film sucks, like this one kind of does, he does something to make it watchable and entertaining for fans... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Richard Ross

3.0 out of 5 stars 88 Minutes = 3 1/2 Stars
Even though the plot is fairly unbelievable, it's a lot of fun and I really enjoyed this movie. However, without Al Pacino in the lead role (and the presence of the lovely LeeLee... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Scorpio69

1.0 out of 5 stars As bad as Pacino's hairstyle
I agree with everyone who's said this movie was bad, stunk, predictable, etc. Pacino running around with a Phil Spector-like "hairdo" was laughable. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Patrick Nava

1.0 out of 5 stars Ridiculous.
88 Minutes starring Al Pacino is complete garbage. They must have paid Pacino a lot of cash because I can't see this guy thinking, wow this is an awesome script. Read more
Published 3 months ago by ADRIENNE MILLER

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but not great. Worthy of a rental.
Best Part: Pacino,although not at his best, was the highlight of the film.

Worst Part:too predictable



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-Lesbian part... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Kyle

1.0 out of 5 stars TICK TOCK - YOU HAVE 108 MINUTES UNTIL THE END
Predictable from the start. Another Hollywood-style "whodunnit" with no real surprises. Al Pacino - I was surprised to find him this awful film, he's the only one really trying... Read more
Published 4 months ago by David Segrove

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