88 Minutes Critic Reviews

If you're like me and think that any Pacino movie is sort of worth seeing, so long as he never says, "Hoo-ha," then 88 Minutes won't be a total disappointment.Read the full review

Although it's often laugh-out-loud laughably bad, 88 Minutes is mostly just a slog.Read the full review

Not merely Pacino's over-mannered, near-histrionic performance, but the movie itself could be characterized as busy, busy, busy. It's so full of plot twists and revelations and exploding sports cars that its very perkiness comes to seem comic.Read the full review

This may be the most preposterous movie of the year. It is certainly the most ridiculous movie starring an Oscar-winning actor.Read the full review

I'm guessing it's the pressure of an idiot script by Gary Scott Thompson and understandably clueless direction from Jon Avnet that forces Pacino to ham it up so vigorously that you want to garnish him with cloves and a slice of pineapple.Read the full review

I've seen Pacino over the edge. This is not it. He looks pooped and pickled. Maybe being the only thing standing between a megaplex opening and a trip straight to the $4.99 bin at Target wiped him out.Read the full review

One of the dumbest thrillers to arrive it theaters in a long time.Read the full 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.Read the full review

Actually, it's pretty much the definition of absurd.Read the full review