Mr-Fusion It's not really fair to call "88 Minutes" a bad movie. It's more like a fustercluck of a movie erected from a terrible script and slapped together after the filmmakers were already over this nonsense. It's got a (visibly worn-out) Pacino racing against the clock, but the real-time angle is just there to keep the movie plowing through each brick wall of implausibility. And it doesn't make any sense as a legal/psycho thriller because so many subplots are just jammed in there, all coming at you from every possible direction. And speaking of Pacino, did he go through a Nicolas Cage "I owe all sorts of people money" stage? What brought him to such a lowly place? I have to admit I was enjoying myself watching Leelee Sobieski's overacting and the final let's-wrap-this-up-and-finally-tell-the-audience-who's-behind-it-all scenes. It was a pleasant reminder that none of this is to be enjoyed without irony (albeit shamefully late in the game).3/10

SnoopyStyle It's 1997. Serial killer Seattle Slayer murders Joanie Cates with her twin sister Janie surviving. Forensic psychiatrist and college professor Jack Gramm (Al Pacino) testifies and sends Jon Forster (Neal McDonough) to death row for the crime. Then another girl is murdered with the same MO. The question becomes whether this is a copycat, or a companion killer, or that Forster is actually innocent. The latest victim was Jack Gramm's student and patient. Shelly Barnes (Amy Brenneman) is his loyal assistant. Kim Cummings (Alicia Witt), Lauren Douglas (Leelee Sobieski) and Mike Stempt (Ben McKenzie) are some of his students. Then he gets a call telling him that he has 88 minutes to live. Dean Johnson (Deborah Kara Unger) tells the class about a bomb threat and he notices somebody had written 76 minutes to live. So it goes.It's never really set up how a forensic psychiatrist sends somebody to death row all by himself. There needs to be some kind of explanation at the start. It needs to show him at his work. Without a proper setup, it's all muddy. I couldn't buy into Al Pacino's character and I couldn't care about what's going on. The movie throws a lot of characters on the screen and everybody is a suspect. Yet I couldn't care about any of them. The 88 minutes countdown is suppose to be a real time tension builder. It just serves to countdown when this movie finally ends.

TheMarwood Pacino looks like he's melting on screen and starting the film off watching this geezer dancing like he's hip in a trendy club in slow motion is comically off the mark and absurd. 88 Minutes is unfortunately 108 minutes and wisely director James Foley, who worked with Pacino on Glengarry Glen Ross left the project before shooting began and was replaced by the less than stellar Jon Avnet. This stinker rotted on the shelf for over two years before being released to critics who disemboweled it and audiences who ignored it. In what I can only assume what was written for a much, MUCH younger leading man, Pacino is about as hilariously miscast as they come. Women swoon over him and he has the sexual voracity of a 20 year old, yet beyond offering an AARP discount to these women, Pacino is about as off putting as abandoned soiled underwear. Once the high concept plot kicks in, we're subjected to leaps of logic and and really terrible Leelee Sobieski acting. Everyone is a red herring and the killer(s) motives are so convoluted and complicated that the plot depends on the most ludicrous decisions and senseless actions ever made by a thinking race.http://www.boxofficeflops.com/yearly-breakdowns/2008-2/88-minutes/

Soroush Sadatsharifee 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.