Review of 88 Minutes (2007) by Sara S — 14 Nov 2009

**spoiler, but if you haven't seen it by now, don't bother** ok, so this serial killer convinces one of his lawyers to help him out. she spends a lot of time and effort killing some people and framing Pacino, then she calls him and tells him he has 88 minutes to live.

then she sets his apartment on fire, shows up while it's smoking, shoots at him for about a minute, somehow put a bomb in his car, and then let's him drive around for another 30 minutes, then calls him and tells him to go to his office in 10 minutes.

then she calls and tells him to go to another building on campus in 5 minutes. then she has 2 hostages, makes him admit, at gunpoint, on tape, that he lied in that serial killer's trial. then I guess she was going to kill him? so, why the elaborate frame-up? why the fire, the shooting, and car bomb? they repeatedly mention that this woman is 28 years old in relation to how the serial killer was able to manipulate her into doing all this.

i'm not sure why her age is relevant to that. there's just not much that makes any sense in this movie, there are too many irrelevant characters and phone calls, and I thought there was a general rule that red herrings were to be kept to a believable minimum, rather than inundating the audience with random suspicious characters.

and leelee sobieski sucks at acting and wears enough black eyeliner to paint a mural with. also, which law school teaches a car bomb class? because bomb's are dangerous.