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88 Minutes (2007)

December. 24,2007
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5.9
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R
| Thriller Mystery
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Famed forensic psychiatrist Dr. Jack Gramm enjoys a reputation as one of the most sought-after profilers around. His expert testimony has resulted in the conviction of many criminals, including serial killer Jon Forster. On the eve of Forster's execution, one of Gramm's students is murdered in a vicious copycat crime, and Gramm himself receives an ominous message informing him that he has less than 90 minutes to live.

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Claysaba
2007/12/24

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

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Invaderbank
2007/12/25

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

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Hadrina
2007/12/26

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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Lachlan Coulson
2007/12/27

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

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adonis98-743-186503
2007/12/28

On the day that a serial killer that he helped put away is supposed to be executed, a noted forensic psychologist and college professor receives a call informing him that he has 88 minutes left to live. 88 Minutes is the 2nd most hated Al Pacino the first one is Jack & Jill and honestly i didn't found the film so bad Al Pacino gave a fantastic performance and Alicia Witt as Kim was an interesting character. Everyone else? They were a mixed bag with the worst being Ben McKenzie but the film has great suspense and some great action sequences and Jack Gramm's backstory with his sister and him finding redemption at the end was something that really won me over it's not by any means one of Al Pacino's best movies but definitely not one of his worst.

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Dr_Sagan
2007/12/29

A poor movie that even Al Pacino couldn't save it. In fact he might even be part of the problem.Al Pacino plays Jack Gramm, a college professor who also works with the FBI as a forensic psychiatrist. The titular 88 minutes is the time he had left to live after receiving a mysterious phone call telling him so. The mystery lies on finding the caller, someone probably from his shaken past before the deadline expires.The cast has at least 4 sexy ladies in it. Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobieski, Amy Brenneman and Deborah Kara Unger but are misused giving room to the shouty unsympathetic persona of Al Pacino's character.The script is full of dreadful turns and awful dialogue. The direction and cinematography are bad and somehow pretentious.Overall: There are more thrilling ways to spend the 108 minutes that this movie lasts, like watching your plants grow or something.

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Soroush Sadatsharifee
2007/12/30

I really like these kinds of Mystery Thriller movies .They make fell exited .I like to follow them to see what would happen next,especially when they are so well performed like this one.Al Pacino is perfect as always.He plays the role of an experienced psychiatrist in a very cool way.I think if he was so stressed out and if he did strange things to keep himself alive it would have been unbelievable but now his great cool performance is acceptable.The ending is wise enough to make us amazed.Great music and wonderful cinematography style don't leave the audience alone.Any way I loved it and I do think it deserves a better rating in IMDb.

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hall895
2007/12/31

88 Minutes is a completely terrible movie. It also is a completely stupid movie, insulting your intelligence throughout. It is a horribly acted movie. Everyone in it is awful but a special mention for William Forsythe and Leelee Sobieski who go beyond run-of-the-mill awfulness. They turn in performances so bad you want to close your eyes and look away, it's that painful. The movie's star, Al Pacino, doesn't sink to those depths but he's pretty bad as well, clearly mailing in a performance to cash a paycheck. For an actor with a career as distinguished as his to appear in this dreck is incredibly disappointing. It's bad enough that they make him spout laughably bad dialogue throughout. But to have senior citizen Pacino running around the whole time like some young action hero is just sad. He's got quite the hitch in his giddy-up. It makes him look painfully old, washed-up, over the hill. Pacino deserves better. Surely anyone who actually watched this movie deserves much, much better.Pacino plays Jack Gramm, a forensic psychiatrist and college professor. His testimony was key in sending suspected serial killer Jon Forster to death row. Now the day before Forster's scheduled execution there is a murder which followed his modus operandi. And the victim was a student of Gramm's who he had been out partying with the night before. And then Gramm gets a mysterious phone call telling him he has 88 minutes to live. A reasonably compelling setup for a movie. But it falls apart almost immediately. It gets really stupid really quickly. There are absurd plot holes all over the place. Writer Gary Scott Thompson produced what may be one of the dumbest scripts ever written. And in the hands of incompetent director Jon Avnet that script leads the movie right off a cliff. It becomes clear right away that Avnet has absolutely no idea what he's doing. It's pretty obvious he's not a director who knows how to coax a performance out of an actor. Forsythe, playing an FBI man, and Sobieski, playing one of Gramm's students, are the worst but nobody around them is much better. Avnet even makes Pacino look bad and yet Pacino actually went on to do another movie with this hack. Are you really that desperate for cash, Al? This movie wanders along aimlessly and stupidly. It throws a myriad of red herrings at you, trying to make every single person who appears on screen a suspect. The movie tries to be smart, to keep you guessing. It's not smart at all, anyone with a functioning brain can figure out its supposed mystery. Like all thrillers of this type it all leads up to the big, climactic final scene where all is revealed. And that scene is quite possibly the dumbest thing I have ever seen. Which makes it the perfect ending for this hideous movie. It's a movie about a killer whose victims are tortured. It's those of us who are unfortunate enough to watch this movie who are tortured most of all.

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