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88 Minutes

Oh Jesus. How many times have you seen this one before? Some lunatic serial killer is thrown in jail based on the testimony of a forensic psychiatrist and somehow said wackadoo is playing some drawn out and banal cat and mouse game—from his prison cell! And in an effort to make things less… shitty and boring, that psychiatrist is also a college professor with plenty of eager young students who seem all too willing to get sucked into a less than mediocre script. The kind of script that will only leave you on the edge of your seat if your ass falls asleep.

Al Pacino plays the leathery psychiatrist/professor, and the nutjob sets up some kind of elaborate screw-job, framing Pacino for the murder of some girl he was diddling. Oh, and some disguised voice that might be the killer from Scream 1, 2, or 3 keeps telling him he’s got so many minutes to live. It starts with 88 for some reason, then down to 79, then, well, you get the idea. And the lunatic’s guy on the outside might be one of Pacino’s students who was on The OC.

Yeah, so the whole thing’s really trite and getting through the preview for 88 Minutes in itself was a chore. It’s trite in that way that hanging out with an ex is trite. You know, when you break up and you make that obligatory I hope we can still be friends remark. Then they say you don’t mean it and the only reason you hang out with them is so you don’t look like a dick. And you’d rather be trying to get with someone else instead of hearing about how hard it is for your ex to be alone and how much they miss being with you and can it get any worse than this?

By the way, if you really want to see yet another faux-suspenseful “real time thriller” after suffering through that crap Phone Booth movie and “24,” keep in mind this movie isn’t exactly new. It saw a limited release in 2006, is available on DVD in Europe and can easily be downloaded on the internet for free.

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