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(1 - 24) of 24 OFCS Rating: 0% Rotten Page   1   "'88 Minutes' is a muddled, low-quality thriller."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker 1.5/5 "While the actual ending does give audiences a reason to cheer, it's the final fade out that will make viewers the happiest. It means this tepid terror is finally over."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron D "How Al Pacino found himself roped into this wacky movie is another mystery entirely and one that doesn't take much research past the words "yacht payment" to solve."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf 1/5 "Pacino feels like a bankable source to disguise mediocrity but a dud is a dud and Avnet is wholly indifferent"   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin D "Okay, so Al went slumming and all he got was a paycheck and movie for his fans to ignore. All is forgiven. Just don't do it again Al. Please don't do it again."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "The boys' throwdown reveals nothing. Neither man comprehends the lunacy of the plot, however, leaving that tiresome deciphering to you."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 1/4 "Shockingly inept from start to finish..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C- "It's a B-movie with an A-movie cast, where the cast doesn't even perform up to B-movie standards."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2/4 "Could have used more innovation and less strained obviousness as it worked its way toward an underwhelming conclusion."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman C- "Its U.S. release feels like an obligatory gesture before sending it to DVD -- where, truth be told, it should have gone to begin with."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 1/4 "At times it's almost like Pacino has been lured into a Bobby Bowfinger production except the best blackmail material around to get his permission for release is 88 Minutes itself."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress F "Quite possibly the dumbest movie ever made by an Oscar winner--and that includes all the dreadful pictures with Rod Steiger, F. Murray Abraham and even Cuba Gooding, Jr."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 1/4 "It's always a shock when a movie turns out to be this bad."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3/10 "The movie runs blandly through its paces without generating an ounce of tension or suspense."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio "If you like your women half-naked, strung upside-down from pulleys, and sliced like deli meat, this is the movie for you. Whether the victims are more tortured than the plot is a serious question."   Film.com   Jonathan F. Richards 1.5/5 "click for full review"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis D "There's a lot of familiar territory covered in this new thriller. Unfortunately, most of that territory falls in the land of bad movies."   Film School Rejects   Kevin Carr 1/4 "Might have made an entertainingly direct-to-DVD B-movie thriller with the courage of its sleazy convictions. But expectations are different for a theatrical feature starring Al Pacino, and by those standards it's a preposterous misfire."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh D "88 Minutes is the sort of overblown thriller in which every action, no matter how insignificant, is pregnant with portent, yet it's a film of nothing but red herrings."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer .5/4 "For sheer silliness, nothing in 88 Minutes tops the fact that Witt's English ex-con husband boasts the ridiculously fanciful name Guy LaForge, presumably because "Fakey McMake-Believe" was already taken."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 1/5 "[...]as dumb a movie as you're likely to see this year, and may go down as Pacino's worst ever."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 1/5 "The only mystery here is why Pacino would have chosen to lend his talents to a project of an artistic level that most people would more readily associate with the likes of Michael Pare about ten years ago or Robert De Niro today."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 2.5/5 "The overwrought production, sieve-like plot and ludicrous characters merge into something genuinely hilarious. But that's clearly not what cast and crew were going for."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 1/10 "One of the absolutely stupidest mysteries ever to receive studio financing and a legitimate theatrical release in this country."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton  (1 - 24) of 24 OFCS Rating: 0% Rotten Page   1