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17 out of 100

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3.6 out of 10

Generally unfavorable- based on 66 Ratings

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  • Starring: Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Ben McKenzie
  • Summary: In 88 Minutes, Dr. Jack Gramm, a college professor who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI. When Gramm receives a death threat claiming he has only 88 minutes to live, he must use all his skills and training to narrow down the possible suspects, who include a disgruntled student, a jilted former lover, and a serial killer who is already on death row, before his time runs out. (TriStar Pictures)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 27
  3. Negative: 25 out of 27
  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    50
    If you're like me and think that any Pacino movie is sort of worth seeing, so long as he never says, "Hoo-ha," then 88 Minutes won't be a total disappointment.
  2. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Steven Rea
    38
    88 Minutes proves itself to be a maddeningly mediocre, ineptly manipulative "real-time" thriller.
  3. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: Peter Rainer
    33
    This business of the 88 minutes ticking away is a pale imitation of the old "High Noon" ploy of playing out suspense in real time. After a while, though, I began to take a perverse pleasure in wallowing in the awfulness of it all.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 27
  3. Negative: 14 out of 27
  1. GGDD
    8
    Good film...ignore the arseholes who think their film experts...Chatting shit about "dialoge" Its no epic, its not just fun.
    • 4 of 5 users said yes
  2. EadieM.
    5
    While far from Pacino's best, this film is entertaining and holds attention, even if some of the plot is implausible (that's nothing new in today's films) and the editing uneven. It deserves more than the 17 critics gave it. If a film holds you till the end it deserves more than 0.… Expand
    • 1 of 2 users said yes
  3. spaceWarts803
    1
    This may be the worst Pacino movie ever. And I am aware of the existence of "simone" and "righteous kill", so I am very abreast of his **** If you want a good movie done in "real time", don't waste YOUR TIME with this P.O.S. Check out "Nick of Time", from the mid-nineties, with Johnny Depp and Christopher Walken. It's done in "real time", and with much more success than this warmed-over turd.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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