88 Minutes Reviews

This page contains reviews for the Jon Avnet directed film 88 Minutes which stars Al Pacino as Dr. Jack Gramm.

The movie received an average rating of 6% on Rotten Tomatoes and an overall rating of and 17 on Metacritic.

The domestic box office gross was $15,631,736 and $4,979,416 abroad for a total of $20,611,152 worldwide.

On the very day condemned serial killer Jon Forster is set to be executed for a brutal murder, eerily similar killings are committed. Al Pacino stars as college professor and forensic psychiatrist Dr. Jack Gramm, the man whose testimony put Forster away. After getting a phone call from someone telling him he has only 88 minutes to live, Gramm must race against time to determine the caller's identity and save his own life.

• New York Observer: Saggy, Beat-Up 60-Something Pacino Still Sizzles as Sleuth
  • "...will add a little more luster to a career that has not been adequately appreciated perhaps because of the suspiciously seductive power of a little man with an outsize talent."

• Newsday (2/4): 88 Minutes Review
  • "A cheap thriller with an expensive star, 88 Minutes is fast, sleazy and serviceable - in other words, totally watchable - and has one point in its favor: It never tries to pretend it's a class act."

• The New York Times: 88 Minutes Review
  • "Although it's often laugh-out-loud laughably bad, 88 Minutes is mostly just a slog."

• The Hollywood Reporter: 88 Minutes Review
  • "this ridiculous thriller would be hard-pressed to last much longer than its title in theaters before doing time on DVD, as is already the case in many overseas territories."

• EW.com (F): 88 Minutes Review
  • "It takes eight minutes, tops, to know that even by the conventionally lax standards of watch-and-toss serial-killer movies, 88 Minutes is a stinker..."

• Chicago Tribune (1/4): 88 Minutes Review
  • "The movie throws so much awkward back story at you, so late in the game, it's as if it's out to kill you with exposition."

• USA Today: 88 Minutes: One Heck of an Obscene Phone Call
  • "The best thing that can be said about 88 Minutes is that it is sometimes unintentionally hilarious. But when all is added up, there might be eight minutes of laughs at the absurd situations and idiotic dialogue. That leaves a lot of time to sit in the theater and check your watch."

• ReelViews (1/4): 88 Minutes Review
  • "It's always a shock when a movie turns out to be this bad. It's an even bigger shock when it features an actor of the caliber and reputation of Al Pacino. 88 Minutes is one of the dumbest thrillers to arrive in theaters in a long time..."

• Village Voice: 88 Minutes Counts Down to Self-Parody
  • "We may have to sit through worse films to come this year, but with any luck, there'll be none as guilelessly, idiotically misogynist as this one."

• Slant (.5/5): 88 Minutes Review
  • "...trying to piece together the film's puzzle is like trying to drunkenly run through a brick wall: futile, and apt to give one a headache."

• Ain't It Cool News: Gouda Says Pacino's 88 Minutes Isn't Worth Your Time...
  • "...bottom line here, stay away. If you need further proof, let me tell you how the movie starts: Al Pacino dancing to hip hop music at a nightclub with a girl at least 3 inches taller than him, who appears to be 18 years old. Very creepy. Very bad film."

• Cinematical: Review: 88 Minutes
  • "...88 Minutes runs 108 minutes, and it's too long."