88 Minutes Review

This movie has received some terrible reviews-but let me say that I didn’t think it was bad.  It wasn’t great, and it definetely wasn’t Al Pacino’s best film, but it was entertaining and had some decent twists and backstory. Basically, the plot goes like this: Al Pacino plays Dr. Jack Gramm, a professor at a university in Seattle, and testifies at the trial of John Forrester in the late 1990’s, who is charged with numerous murders. Gramm’s testimony convicts Forrester, who is sentenced to death. Nine years later, on the day Forrester is set to be executed,  Gramm receives a phone call telling him he has eighty-eight minutes to live. Gramm must outsmart whoever is trying to kill him before they succeed in their goal.

I thought the movie was pretty exciting-it did keep me interested. It was far better then Prom Night. I’ve always liked murder-mystery films, and while this one wasn’t the greatest ever made, it was no where near the failure the critics make it out to be.  The acting was good, I thought, and the roles were well cast. As I said before, it is definetely not Pacino’s greatest film-that would have to go to The Godfather, Scarface, or Scent of a Woman-but Pacino hasn’t made a film like this one for a while, and I thought it was worth seeing.

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