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88 Minutes (2007)
 
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Directed
by:
Jon Avnet |
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COUNTRY
Germany/USA/Canada |
GENRE
Drama/Thriller |
NORWEGIAN
TITLE
88
Minutes |
RUNNING
TIME
108 minutes |
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Produced
by:
Jon Avnet
Randall Emmett
Avi Lerner
Gary Scott Thompson |
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Written by:
Gary Scott Thompson |
Review
88 Minutes is a cluttered thriller that maintains a fair level
of suspense but not too much logic. Forensic psychiatrist
Dr. Jack Gramm (Al Pacino) runs
the Seattle Marathon in 88 minutes trying to solve an unimpressive
scheme, in which he is implicated in a number of murders that seem to
emulate the modus operandi of a serial killer he helped convict
several years prior. Jon Avnet's directorial style is like TV's
24, only without the edge. The script, unexpertly
scribbled together by Gary Scott Thompson, presents us with the not so
appealing package of being both boring and wildly implausible. Al Pacino
clearly avoids trying to put any emotion into this. Instead, he covers
his face in his hands during the film's supposedly emotional climax. He
is surrounded by a pile of unwarranted mysterious supporting characters,
whom Avnet has constantly popping up all over the place. They might
amuse you, if not their casting agents. Leelee Sobieski and Deborah Kara
Unger (as usual) give lessons in bad acting in their hopeless roles.
This is a new low for Avnet, who showed potential in the early 1990s with
Fried Green Tomatoes and
The War.
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