88 Minutes Reviews

88 Minutes Review Summary

Viewpoints movie buffs reach a split decision with 88 Minutes. Some feel it's a "modern psychological thriller [that] keeps your heart pounding," while others feel that star Al Pacino let them down, as they normally consider his appearance in a film "good enough reason to buy a movie ticket," such as with The Godfather series. Pacino stars in 88 Minutes as a forensic psychologist whose testimony helped put a many away, and now that the man has been scheduled to die under capital punishment, Pacino's character begins getting mysterious messages telling him he's going to die. Of the reviewers that didn't enjoy this psychological thriller, most felt it wasn't necessarily the fault of Pacino, "a really great actor and a really lousy movie."