88 Minutes (Jon Avnet, 2008)

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Antoine Doinel · #1 Post by **Antoine Doinel** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:52 am

Al Pacino stars in the dumbest movie of his career.

#2 Post by **domino harvey** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 2:00 am

Starring Al Pacino as Ron Silver

Hai2u · #3 Post by **Hai2u** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 5:42 am

The movie should actually be 88 minutes as well, so we see everything in real time.

Svevan · #4 Post by **Svevan** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 8:45 am

With flashbacks, I don't know how they're going to do that.....and I don't care, either.

#5 Post by **domino harvey** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:21 am

This is coming in at 10% and in danger of going lower at Rotten Tomatoes. Even Armond White resisted praising it!

Dylan · #6 Post by **Dylan** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:47 am

Word on the street is that this sat on the shelf for more than two years after post-production wrapped. That, and I remember hearing about the filming when I had a stint living in British Columbia in '05...hell, the hype at that time was that Ben McKenzie from The OC was in it and that show has since been cancelled.

I'm surprised this didn't go straight to video...and that Armond White didn't love it.

The Fanciful Norwegian · Fri Apr 18, 2008 10:46 am

Dylan wrote:Word on the street is that this sat on the shelf for more than two years after post-production wrapped.

No need for the "word on the street" qualifier -- it started filming in late 2005 and it's been out on DVD in some countries since early '07.

TomReagan · #8 Post by **TomReagan** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 12:07 pm

My new favorite recent blurb, courtesy of Michael Phillips writing for the Chicago Tribune:

The preposterous “88 Minutes” is a serial killer movie starring Al Pacino’s festival of hair.

Good stuff.

#9 Post by **domino harvey** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 5:41 pm

It's at 5% now, meaning Kangaroo Jack was better-received than this film.

Roger_Thornhill · #10 Post by **Roger_Thornhill** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:10 am

domino harvey wrote:It's at 5% now, meaning Kangaroo Jack was better-received than this film.

It still beats this!

colinr0380 · #11 Post by **colinr0380** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:04 pm

Scathing comments from the Moon in the Gutter blog.

hot_locket · #12 Post by **hot_locket** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 2:57 am

This film is an untentional comedy masterpiece. All they had to do was call it Thriller Movie and it would've been the best by far of that series. Little absurd moments like Al Pacino peaking over a wall to stare intensely at each of his students in turn while they stare fully back at him took me very close to laughing out loud in the theatre, and I would have too (MANY times) if it didn't piss me off so much when other people do it (the arrogance!).

Rent it on DVD with friends and have a rollicking good time. A+

#13 Post by **domino harvey** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 3:16 am

hot_locket wrote:This film is an untentional comedy masterpiece. All they had to do was call it Thriller Movie and it would've been the best by far of that series.

Awesome

#14 Post by **cdnchris** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 6:46 am

Man, this movie was something else. After watching Righteous Kill I had to see the other Avnet film that I heard was worse. It was pretty pitiful, full of some real head scratching moments (most thrillers require their characters to do something that makes no sense to move the plot but that's all Pacino does through this film) and some truly WTF moments like a scene where Pacino has to dive to avoid a fire truck speeding through a crowd, but I couldn't say it was worse than Righteous Kill... Until the final 5-10 minutes. They even dressed up the murderer in skin tight leather (or pleather or whatever) and dolled them up as if they were some sort of super assassin or something. What an awkward sequence to an already awkward, bizarre film.

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