1/5 Pacino Looks As Bored In The Movie As The Audience Watching It
  by YJM (Somewhere In The South)
Just caught this on cable tv and I am thankful for three things after watching it:

1. I did not pay money to see it in the theaters
2. I did not pay money to buy the DVD
3. I did not pay money to rent the DVD

I would not send my worst enemy into the theater to watch this mess of a movie. I have never seen Pacino look so bored in front of the camera. I think he realized what a stinker the movie he was making would be and so just went through the motions. It doesn't help that Pacino is really starting to look his age, thus making him old, tired, and bored. I would hope a man of his enormous talent would be so picky and choosy about what movies he agrees to be in at this stage in his life. For the life of me I don't know what Pacino saw in the script, but whatever it was supposed to be, the end result was a terrible movie.

The other one star reviewers have done a good job of explaining what made the movie so bad, so I won't repeat them. Just know this is probably the worst Pacino film I have ever seen. Actually forget about Al, this would have been a terrible movie regardless of who was in the starring role. This is not so much a review as a warning to stay far away from this movie. If you decide not to read any of the one star reviews and buy it anyway, well then all I can say is you get what you deserve!

5/5 Review of 88 Minutes
  by Margie
This is a fantastic movie. I love Al Pacino and this movie was not a dissapointment. Lots of action and suspense and until the end, I was held to my seat.

5/5 88 minutes
  by Stacey L. Harris
Good movie, but when is Al pacino ever in a bad one. It was suspenseful and exciting. i recommend to anyone

2/5 Tick Tock Al, It's The Sound Of Your Career Running Out
  by Richard Ross
I love Al Pacino and have watched him in many a bad movie. Even when the film sucks, like this one kind of does, he does something to make it watchable and entertaining for fans. Here he plays forensic psychologist Jack Gramm. In addition to his medical practice, Jack teaches a criminal studies class at a local college. He's a a bit of a ladies man after hours keeping company with call girls, his students (Alicia Witt and Lelee Sobieski), his secretary (Amy Brenneman) and even the dean of the college (Deborah Kara Ungar). It was Jack's crucial testimony years earlier that earned a rapist (Neal McDonough) the death penalty. On the day of the execution, Jack awakes to find a man on a motorcycle outside his house. When he arrives at work he sees that the motorcyclist has followed him. He then gets a call on his cell phone in which someone tells him he has only 88 minutes left to live. Jack starts an investigation that has his put upon gay secretary (Brenneman) making about a hundred phone calls and checking the records of the prison, his students, the woman he was with last night and so on and so forth. Jack is clueless as to who is taunting him and his paranoia causes him to run around campus like a madman snatching cell phones away from terrified students. Teaming up with one of his students (Witt), Jack attempts to prove that the murderer he put away is behind this latest threat. The film takes place in real time once Jack is threatened but it's never all that suspenseful. Jack takes the news in stride and he and Witt go to his apartment and basically chill for a half hour until he gets another phone call telling him where to go. Once the person's identity is revealed there have been so many ridiculous twists and turns that the film becomes laughable. The best scene involves an exasperated Jack yelling at an FBI guy (William Forsythe) who believes Jack is behind it all. "Did I blow up my own car? Did I shoot bullets at myself?", Jack yells. (His explanation of how his "DNA" came to be found on a murder victim is also pretty funny). Hell, in the bonus features Pacino admits that much of the film is illogical but that he was still attracted to the material for whatever reason. He says he had a good time making it but that doesn't guarantee that fans will have a good time watching it. The film was made way back in 2005 and shelved for nearly three years. It was directed by Jon Avnet who would reunite Pacino and DeNiro months later in 'Righteous Kill', another ridiculous film, but one that is much more entertaining than this one.

3/5 88 Minutes = 3 1/2 Stars
  by Scorpio69 (Hawaii, America's Paradise)
Even though the plot is fairly unbelievable, it's a lot of fun and I really enjoyed this movie. However, without Al Pacino in the lead role (and the presence of the lovely LeeLee Sobieski) it may have been much less watchable. But, let's face it, Al has some major gravitas, and he can carry a movie like few others.