88 Minutes |  | Director: Jon Avnet
Actors: Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Ben McKenzie, Leelee Sobieski, Amy Brenneman
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  86 reviews
Sales Rank: 10481
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 99
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 108 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: COLD23578D
UPC: 043396235786
EAN: 0043396235786
ASIN: B001C5LLLY
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: September 16, 2008
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Product Description
Genre: Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 16-SEP-2008
Media Type: DVD
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Al Pacino looks startled through much of 88 Minutes, as though taken by surprise at being cast in a thriller that must've first passed across the desks of Clint Eastwood and Harrison Ford. Still, Pacino brings his usual oomph to the role of a Seattle forensic psychiatrist, whose testimony secured the death sentence for a crazy serial killer (Neal McDonough). Wouldn't you know it, the very day the killer is sentenced to die, a copycat "Seattle Slayer" is on the loose, and Pacino starts getting ominous phone calls telling him the exact time of his own death. Tick tock: it's 88 minutes away. The film then serves up more red herrings than a Stalingrad fish fry, as possible culprits pop up every five minutes or so (among them an attractive group of med-school students played by Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobieski, and Benjamin McKenzie). Lapses in logic abound, but if you hunker down and zone in on Pacino's weary-eyed, poufy-haired professionalism, you can enjoy the goings-on. (They even make him run up flights of stairs, which one would have thought beyond him now.) Seattle's frequent stunt double, Vancouver, B.C., stands in as a location, and Jon Avnet supplies the slick direction. The cast is talented (including Amy Brenneman), leading you to guess that a lot of people will do anything just to work with Al Pacino. And you've got to admire Pacino's chutzpah at sharing the screen with statuesque actresses such as Brenneman and Sobieski; they tower over him, but he still holds his own. --Robert Horton
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 88 Minutes of Stephen Moyer would have been good February 1, 2010
Erin O'Riordan (Midwest USA)
Jack Gramm (Al Pacino) has 88 Minutes to live in this 2008 film. Why? It's complicated. Gramm is a forensic psychologist whose expert testimony has helped convict Jon Forster, a vicious serial killer. Even as Forster sits on death row, though, the murders continue. It's possible Gramm's forensic re-creation of the crime was wrong, and that Forster is the wrong man. It's also possible, as Gramm believes, that there is copycat killer on the loose.
I'm not a huge Al Pacino fan, but I did like him in this. He's working with a largely female cast, and he portrays none of the cocky arrogance around his female co-stars in some of his other films. (Satan in Devil's Advocate, I'm looking at you.) He comes across as sensitive and likable.
What I really like about this movie, though, is the small role played by English actor Stephen Moyer. He's best known for playing Southern vampire Bill Compton on True Blood, and for his engagement to co-star Anna Paquin. In 88 Minutes, he's Guy LaForge, a leather-clad, motorcycle-riding English rocker with a nasty temper. Sure, he doesn't do much but look sexy and brooding, but that's what he was put on earth to do. He's Stephen Moyer. If you enjoyed Restraint, you'll probably like this one, too.
 88 Minutes December 26, 2009
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
88 Minutes was a very good thriller. It kept you guessing from the very start of the movie until the very end.
 Tick Tock, is it over yet? November 28, 2009
S. Sandoval (San Francisco, CA USA)
As bad as it gets. I love Pacino but even he couldn't bring this garbage to life. Leelee Sobieski was the bad one? Wasn't she in the TV show "A Horse for Danny" back in the 90's? Hopefully Pacino made a lot of money because this sure didn't help what's left of his stellar career. Just a dumb movie.
Pacino Looks As Bored In The Movie As The Audience Watching It November 24, 2009
YJM (Somewhere In The South)
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
2. I did not pay money to buy the DVD
3. I did not pay money to rent the DVD
I would not send my worst enemy into the theater to watch this mess of a movie. I have never seen Pacino look so bored in front of the camera. I think he realized what a stinker the movie he was making would be and so just went through the motions. It doesn't help that Pacino is really starting to look his age, thus making him old, tired, and bored. I would hope a man of his enormous talent would be so picky and choosy about what movies he agrees to be in at this stage in his life. For the life of me I don't know what Pacino saw in the script, but whatever it was supposed to be, the end result was a terrible movie.
The other one star reviewers have done a good job of explaining what made the movie so bad, so I won't repeat them. Just know this is probably the worst Pacino film I have ever seen. Actually forget about Al, this would have been a terrible movie regardless of who was in the starring role. This is not so much a review as a warning to stay far away from this movie. If you decide not to read any of the one star reviews and buy it anyway, well then all I can say is you get what you deserve!
Review of 88 Minutes October 12, 2009
Margie
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
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.
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