Review of 88 Minutes (2007) by Toke E — 15 May 2009

Shockingly awful from beginning to end, 88 Munites stars Al Pacino as Jack Gramm - a forensic psychiatrist/college professor who get a call from a mysterious stranger informing him that he has only 88 minutes left to live. The film features numerious suspects, as virtually everyone in Jack's life seems to want him dead.

I just can't help from ponder what the hell Pacino himself found appealing about the project - as the movie remains a confusing and thoroughly frustrating painful exprience throughout its badly overlong running time. The remarkably incompetent screenplay is certainly the most openly annoying element of the film, although Pacino's surprisingly unconcentrated performance is equally deserving of ridiculing. The ending - in which the would-be killer's unexplainable identity is revealed - is nothing short of ludicrous.