0 BDK's

Genre: Thriller
Releaded: 2008/2005

This is the perfect example of Hollywood trying to get money out of the consumer's pockets. Don't they always do that though, you ask? Well, yes, but not with a movie that was made three years ago. According to WIKIPEDIA, 88 Minutes is apparently already on DVD in many countries and was made back in 2005. They are now releasing the film, oddly, in the United States for the first time. You could honestly go online and buy this film if you wanted to. You can probably get it right on EBAY. Well, why the hell would you want to? This is easily one of the worst films I have seen all year long. It was dreadfully bad and I joked with other critics after the movie saying that it was the best comedy of 2008. I was obviously being facetious but the movie is honestly so bad that it makes you laugh at times. When I first saw the trailers for the film, the first film that came to mind was Nick of Time starring Johnny Depp, where the entire movie took place in the 90 minute running time of the film. Well, 88 Minutes follows a similar concept, except for the fact that you get some filler before the 88 minutes start and afterwards. 88 Minutes sadly stars Al Pacino (do I really need to say the other movies this guy has been in), Neil McDonough (The Guardian, The Hitcher), Leelee Sobieski (The Glass House, Joy Ride), Benjamin McKenzie ("The O.C."), William Forsythe (The Devils Rejects, Rob Zombie's Halloween) and Alicia Witt (Dune, Vanilla Sky).

The plotline to the film did seem a little bit intriguing. I guess I was just hoping that since that was the case and Al Pacino was starring in the film, that it would be maybe halfway decent. Boy was I wrong! The movie opens up with a brutal murder of Joanie Cates. Her sister, Janie, was in the house at the time of the murder and catches a quick glimpse of the murderer. After they catch the supposed killer, also called the Seattle Slayer, he is brought to trial and Forensic Psychologist Jack Gramm (Pacino) testifies against him saying that he is a socio-path, rapist and a murderer. This convinces the jury and Jon Forster (Neil McDonough) is sentenced to jail. As he is being taken away, Forster looks at Gramm says "Tick Tock." The movie fast forwards to 9 years later and Jack wakes up one day and is on his way to class to teach at a college in Seattle. He gets a phone call saying that he has 88 minutes to live. The rest of the film is him trying to figure out who is trying to kill him. Here is the deal though. There is now a copycat killer who is killing people in the exact same way that the "Seattle Slayer" (supposedly Jon Forster) killed his victims. He usually hung them upside down and cut them open. Since there is a killer out there, killing people in a similar fashion, there is doubt rose that Jon Forster is the actual killer. People start thinking he was falsely accused. Jack knows that the person trying to kill him is directly connected to Forster, but he has to convince people he is telling the truth before he dies.

Overall, this movie quite possibly might have had one of the worst scripts I have ever seen in my entire life. EVEN THE ACTING WAS AWFUL. Pacino looked absolutely terrible with the bags under his eyes. WHAT WAS HE DOING IN THIS FILM? HONESTLY! It was absolutely absurd how bad this movie was. I am not even kidding. I found myself laughing the entire time. The girl who played Kim (Alicia Witt), who was Al Pacino's teaching assistant, was one of the worst actresses I have ever seen.

The movie is honestly like a bad made for TV film. I can't even believe that a studio would even have the balls to put a movie like this out in theatres, let alone show it to critics to review before it is released. This movie makes 10,000 BC look like a masterpiece.

What was up with the random rap music playing throughout the film? Every time there was a flashback to the past, they would play this random rap music and it just didn't FIT THE FILM AT ALL. Everything was just off kilter. All of the directing decisions; i.e. zooms, cuts, music, acting were all terrible.

I am sitting here watching this movie and just laughing hysterically. The script was so elementary. The actors would just be pointing out things that were so obvious. It is kind of hard to explain. You kind of have to see it to believe it. Any scene in the film that is supposed to be taken remotely seriously, fails.

I give the film 0 BDKs because I feel that is NOT WORTH YOUR TIME WHATSOEVER. I wouldn't even watch this movie again if someone paid me to see it. PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM THIS FILM. When they were counting down the 88 minutes, I just kept saying to myself, "oh man, this movie still has 72 minutes left?" "Oh man, this movie has 17 minutes left?" I just couldn't wait to get out of the theatre.