Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19 in Movie
• Released on: 2008-11-10
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Running time: 108 minutes

Customer Reviews

Enjoyable thriller
In this movie, Al Pacino is a forensic psychologist who has a way with women. He served as an expert witness on a murder case and he was largely responsible for putting the accused man into prison. On the day that the man is due to be executed, a copycat murder takes place which suggests that the man has been falsely imprisoned. At the same time, Pacino receives a phone call telling him that he has only 88 minutes to live. For the rest of the movie, Pacino races against time as numerous red herrings are thrown at the audience.

After glancing at some of the other reviews, it is evident that many people disagree with me that this is an entertaining thriller. My husband and I enjoyed it and felt that we were definitely entertained for 88 minutes.

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Al Pacino sleepwalks through the role of a go-to crime fighter named Jack Gramm who races against the clock to stop a murder - his own.

The script (such that it is) is cliche-riddled with all the sloppiness of a drive-by shooting. The predictable culprit taunts our bored-looking protagonist - whom everyone in the picture can immediately identify - with a faux-Jigsaw computerized voice in a failed effort to replicate Dennis Hopper's "Pop quiz, hotshot!" from Speed: "Tick tock, doc!"

The cherry on top of it all is either a well-placed stegosaurus toy during an attempt by Al Pacino to deliver a serious, lengthy monologue or this dialogue exchange:

Jack: "Somebody hired Sara Pollard to be with me last night, then killed her. Took my semen, deposited it into Dale Morris."
Frank: "Do you have any idea how absurd that sounds?"
Jack: "No, it's not absurd!"

88 Minutes is over-the-top camp that just barely passes for fun if the audience can give in to its unintentional hilarity.

If you liked Copy Cat... Watch it again!
I liked the old Sigourney Weaver film Copy Cat, it was tense and scary and interesting. 88 Minutes is almost the same movie with Al Pacino taking the part of Weaver. Nothing special about the film other than the thought that is expressed in the alternative ending. Not a terrible movie, but nothing to get excited about and share with your friends.
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