Seriously????
Added 2/26/2010
This must be one of the first times ever that reading customer reviews helped me to avoid a movie!
BAD GUY : You will die in 88 minutes!!
YA!! but the bad guy is trying to kill him every 2 fking minutes!!! Why he said "in 88 minutes"???
You get informed that your fax machine was broken, no problem! 5 minutes later tell your secretary to fax some documents to some dude! Dont forget to remember you dont have fax machine..damn!! he forgot!
The list go on..if you add you have the over-reacted Pacino, doing the same performance stuff he did in around 30 movies.....well...really, just watch this to laugh because of how dumb the scenes and plot are!
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
|
88 Minutes of Stephen Moyer would have been good
Added 2/1/2010
Jack Gramm (Al Pacino) has 88 Minutes to live in this 2008 film. Why? It's complicated. Gramm is a forensic psychologist whose expert testimony has helped convict Jon Forster, a vicious serial killer. Even as Forster sits on death row, though, the murders continue. It's possible Gramm's forensic re-creation of the crime was wrong, and that Forster is the wrong man. It's also possible, as Gramm believes, that there is copycat killer on the loose.
I'm not a huge Al Pacino fan, but I did like him in this. He's working with a largely female cast, and he portrays none of the cocky arrogance around his female co-stars in some of his other films. (Satan in Devil's Advocate, I'm looking at you.) He comes across as sensitive and likable.
What I really like about this movie, though, is the small role played by English actor Stephen Moyer. He's best known for playing Southern vampire Bill Compton on True Blood, and for his engagement to co-star Anna Paquin. In 88 Minutes, he's Guy LaForge, a leather-clad, motorcycle-riding English rocker with a nasty temper. Sure, he doesn't do much but look sexy and brooding, but that's what he was put on earth to do. He's Stephen Moyer. If you enjoyed Restraint, you'll probably like this one, too.
0 out of 2 people found this helpful.
|
88 Minutes
Added 12/26/2009
Dr. Jack is a shrewed womanizing Forensic Psychologist and professor working with the FBI in Seattle. A tortured past makes him great at what he does. Jack's past is returning to pull him on another roller-coaster as a killer that he helped to put on death row approaches the last minutes of his life. "88 Minutes" is a very good thriller. It kept you guessing from the very start of the movie until the very end.
2 out of 5 people found this helpful.
|
Tick Tock, is it over yet?
Added 11/28/2009
As bad as it gets. I love Pacino but even he couldn't bring this garbage to life. Leelee Sobieski was the bad one? Wasn't she in the TV show "A Horse for Danny" back in the 90's? Hopefully Pacino made a lot of money because this sure didn't help what's left of his stellar career. Just a dumb movie.
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
|
Pacino Looks As Bored In The Movie As The Audience Watching It
Added 11/24/2009
Just caught this on cable tv and I am thankful for three things after watching it:
1. I did not pay money to see it in the theaters
2. I did not pay money to buy the DVD
3. I did not pay money to rent the DVD
I would not send my worst enemy into the theater to watch this mess of a movie. I have never seen Pacino look so bored in front of the camera. I think he realized what a stinker the movie he was making would be and so just went through the motions. It doesn't help that Pacino is really starting to look his age, thus making him old, tired, and bored. I would hope a man of his enormous talent would be so picky and choosy about what movies he agrees to be in at this stage in his life. For the life of me I don't know what Pacino saw in the script, but whatever it was supposed to be, the end result was a terrible movie.
The other one star reviewers have done a good job of explaining what made the movie so bad, so I won't repeat them. Just know this is probably the worst Pacino film I have ever seen. Actually forget about Al, this would have been a terrible movie regardless of who was in the starring role. This is not so much a review as a warning to stay far away from this movie. If you decide not to read any of the one star reviews and buy it anyway, well then all I can say is you get what you deserve!
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
|
Seriously????
Added 2/26/2010
This must be one of the first times ever that reading customer reviews helped me to avoid a movie!
BAD GUY : You will die in 88 minutes!!
YA!! but the bad guy is trying to kill him every 2 fking minutes!!! Why he said "in 88 minutes"???
You get informed that your fax machine was broken, no problem! 5 minutes later tell your secretary to fax some documents to some dude! Dont forget to remember you dont have fax machine..damn!! he forgot!
The list go on..if you add you have the over-reacted Pacino, doing the same performance stuff he did in around 30 movies.....well...really, just watch this to laugh because of how dumb the scenes and plot are!
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
|
88 Minutes of Stephen Moyer would have been good
Added 2/1/2010
Jack Gramm (Al Pacino) has 88 Minutes to live in this 2008 film. Why? It's complicated. Gramm is a forensic psychologist whose expert testimony has helped convict Jon Forster, a vicious serial killer. Even as Forster sits on death row, though, the murders continue. It's possible Gramm's forensic re-creation of the crime was wrong, and that Forster is the wrong man. It's also possible, as Gramm believes, that there is copycat killer on the loose.
I'm not a huge Al Pacino fan, but I did like him in this. He's working with a largely female cast, and he portrays none of the cocky arrogance around his female co-stars in some of his other films. (Satan in Devil's Advocate, I'm looking at you.) He comes across as sensitive and likable.
What I really like about this movie, though, is the small role played by English actor Stephen Moyer. He's best known for playing Southern vampire Bill Compton on True Blood, and for his engagement to co-star Anna Paquin. In 88 Minutes, he's Guy LaForge, a leather-clad, motorcycle-riding English rocker with a nasty temper. Sure, he doesn't do much but look sexy and brooding, but that's what he was put on earth to do. He's Stephen Moyer. If you enjoyed Restraint, you'll probably like this one, too.
0 out of 2 people found this helpful.
|
88 Minutes
Added 12/26/2009
Dr. Jack is a shrewed womanizing Forensic Psychologist and professor working with the FBI in Seattle. A tortured past makes him great at what he does. Jack's past is returning to pull him on another roller-coaster as a killer that he helped to put on death row approaches the last minutes of his life. "88 Minutes" is a very good thriller. It kept you guessing from the very start of the movie until the very end.
2 out of 5 people found this helpful.
|
