Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Amy Brenneman
A thriller about a college professor who, while moonlighting as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI, receives a death threat telling him that he has only 88 minutes to live. In narrowing down possible...( read more
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DVD Release Date: September 16, 2008
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Stats: 5,805 reviews
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Flixster Reviews (5,805)
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November 4, 2009run of the mill thriller (lots of running around after nobody and a huge phone bill to boot) with surprisingly the best acting coming from leelee sobieski instead of al pacino
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May 31, 2009Well, there are good parts and bad parts to this film. I felt the basis of the storyline was good and this could have turned out to be a pretty good Thriller, but the film somehow felt way too corny to have Al Pacino star in it.
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January 22, 2009Want to know what I learned from this movie? Serial killers have magical powers, and editors sometimes have great senses of humour. Watch the first scene again: the editing is comedy gold.
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December 27, 2008I am a fan of Al Pacino. I love him in Scarface and Scent Of A Woman. Both brilliant, classic films. I am also a fan of the suspense/thriller.
I thought 88 minutes was a decent film. It could have been better, yes. There were some characters that could have been elaborated on, B...( read more) -
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October 22, 2009In spite of --or perhaps because of-- all the atrocities this film commits, the sobering truth is that I didn't care whether or not Al Pacino died. Additionally, I challenge anybody who finds even the slightest redeemable quality in the movie to recall Al Pacino's character's na...( read more)
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October 19, 2009I never watched Al Pacino before. I mesmerized, that he is so professional actor, people say yes he is a professional. This movie is quite good, worth enough for me to watch. A lot of questions in your mind while u watching this! i was so curious about the story, i couldn't do an...( read more)
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Critic Reviews
April 21, 2008
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker
April 21, 2008
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
The galumphing serial-killer picture 88 Minutes is dumb enough to be straight out of the parodies in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. full review
April 18, 2008
Claudia Puig, USA Today
An inane thriller whose major fear factor hinges on a menacing phone call, the film also relies on a silly phrase intended to fill the viewer with unspeakable terror: 'Tick tock, Doc.' full review
April 18, 2008
Pete Hammond, Boxoffice Magazine
Fortunately for the great Al--and us--this one ought to be in and out of theatres in just about 88 hours. full review
April 18, 2008
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Avnet lays all this stuff out before us with a straight face -- the picture is humorless and witless. full review
April 18, 2008
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Try as he might to 'hoo-ha' some life into this stupendously stupid thriller, Al Pacino can't disguise the desperation of this CSI wanna-be. full review
April 18, 2008
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
What a bore. I guessed the identity of the killer from the character's second appearance, and I'm not that smart. full review
April 18, 2008
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
This new serial-killer thriller is such a preposterous mess it's a wonder it ever made it to the theatre. full review
April 17, 2008
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
Preposterous in design, abysmal in execution and laugh-out-loud funny when it's straining for drama, the film doesn't even honor the lean-and-mean promise of its title. full review
April 16, 2008
Armond White, The New York Press
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. full review
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September 20, 2008Such a rip off of THR3E. I haven't seen it but the plot is like almost exactly the same!
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April 18, 2008I just watched this film, and I must despite certain obvious plot twist it hold your attention. There a few scenes they may drag just a bit but it was still a good suspense, always kudos to Al Pacino.
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April 4, 2007can someone halp me please? i want to know the music in the club at the gegining of the film, when Pacino is dancing. who is the artist ?
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