I am no fan of Holiwood movies. They are one dimensional or pretend to have something more. This one does not. It is plain good story america style.

In a day when sadism, cruelty, and torture appear on our TV and movie screens on a daily basis, I am surprised that so many people think this movie is awful.Not to say that I wanted to see the cruel things done in this movie. There were many scenes of partially clad young women being strung upside down and cut. Didn't need that. But these scenes were such that this movie stayed within the bounds of R movies, maybe because those scenes were relatively short.I agree with most of the bad reviews to the extent that the acting wasn't great. I usually love Alicia Witt, but why did we need her character? It really didn't make sense that she followed him everywhere, even more closely than his office assistant. I think she was meant to be another red herring, but then, it's obvious she couldn't have been responsible for everything that was happening.The plot was OK, but had many flaws. If Graham was supposed to die after 88 minutes, then why so many attempts before that. The murderer sure got around almost as if the murderer had a teleportation device. If you think in detail about what was done, including planting DNA evidence, the logistics were just about impossible, at least for one person. And the overall purpose, to vindicate Forster, was actually hurt by all the overkill. One body with semen would have been the most convincing, but all the others leave too much chance for error and questioning by the police.But this movie didn't really require any more suspension of reality that most of the shows and movies we have seen about sadistic serial killers who seem to be almost omnipotent. I can name at least two popular TV shows based on FBI agents that have had multiple plots that were more unbelievable.Neal McDonough makes a great psychopath, but they are always pretty much the same performance.

Now I'm not going to say this is the best movie ever made but it is interesting to watch.88 Minutes stars Al Pacino,Alicia Witt, Ben McKenzie,Leelee Sobieski,Amy Brenneman,William Forsythe,Deborah Kara Unger, Neal McDonough. The plot it would be hard to talk about without giving it away it's one of the movies you have to watch to get the plot the writers must have study about the mind games because the movie is full of it from the start to the finish.The score for the movie is bone chilling the feeling of anything could happen at any moment that's what the music does for the movie so it's one of the highlights for the movie.The climax of the movie will surprise you and where the movie is really showing it's strength.The Acting I agree is a mix at best but I have seen worse but the acting I'll say is Decent at best but Al,Leelee, Alicia and Neal's performances were not as bad people made it out to be Al made it work with his character along with him being on edge, Leelee shows she can actually act Neal was creepy each time he was screen. That being said I have to see 88 Minutes isn't a masterpiece but not a real bad movie it has something to make it worth the watch it just need time to be given the chance to take it for what it is worthI give 88 Minutes an 7 out of 10

It's not really fair to call "88 Minutes" a bad movie. It's more like a fustercluck of a movie erected from a terrible script and slapped together after the filmmakers were already over this nonsense. It's got a (visibly worn-out) Pacino racing against the clock, but the real-time angle is just there to keep the movie plowing through each brick wall of implausibility. And it doesn't make any sense as a legal/psycho thriller because so many subplots are just jammed in there, all coming at you from every possible direction. And speaking of Pacino, did he go through a Nicolas Cage "I owe all sorts of people money" stage? What brought him to such a lowly place? I have to admit I was enjoying myself watching Leelee Sobieski's overacting and the final let's-wrap-this-up-and-finally-tell-the-audience-who's-behind-it-all scenes. It was a pleasant reminder that none of this is to be enjoyed without irony (albeit shamefully late in the game).3/10