88 Minutes
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: April 18, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
17
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 27 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
2
Negative:
25
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
If you're like me and think that any Pacino movie is sort of worth seeing, so long as he never says, "Hoo-ha," then 88 Minutes won't be a total disappointment. Read full review
40
SalonStephanie Zacharek
The picture is humorless and witless. The barrage of allegedly important details is supposed to keep us intrigued, but it barely keeps us occupied. Read full review
38
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
88 Minutes proves itself to be a maddeningly mediocre, ineptly manipulative "real-time" thriller. Read full review
33
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
This business of the 88 minutes ticking away is a pale imitation of the old "High Noon" ploy of playing out suspense in real time. After a while, though, I began to take a perverse pleasure in wallowing in the awfulness of it all. Read full review
30
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
Although it's often laugh-out-loud laughably bad, 88 Minutes is mostly just a slog. Read full review
30
Washington PostStephen Hunter
Not merely Pacino's over-mannered, near-histrionic performance, but the movie itself could be characterized as busy, busy, busy. It's so full of plot twists and revelations and exploding sports cars that its very perkiness comes to seem comic. Read full review
30
The New YorkerAnthony Lane
Compare 88 Minutes with "Sea of Love," another murder mystery that Pacino made, in 1989, and you find him sporting the same loud ties, but everything else has leached away: suspense, credibility, wit, and the lost art of flirtation. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
Forget Pacino; it’s all those red herrings that reek. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderAndrea Gronvall
Al Pacino chews up so much scenery it's surprising there's any left by the end of this fetid thriller. Read full review
25
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
One of the dumbest thrillers to arrive it theaters in a long time. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
The preposterous 88 Minutes is a serial killer movie starring Al Pacino's festival of hair. Read full review
25
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
Preposterous, empty-headed and tedious. Read full review
25
USA TodayClaudia Puig
This may be the most preposterous movie of the year. It is certainly the most ridiculous movie starring an Oscar-winning actor. Read full review
25
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
A preposterous misfire. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
Every actor and actress involved seems to have been instructed to act as guilty as possible and, in this at least, they're entirely convincing. Not guilty of murder, perhaps, but of a really unfortunate career choice. Read full review
25
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
This is easily one of the silliest, most preposterous thrillers ever made, and the only reason it didn't go straight to video has to be that it stars Pacino. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
I've seen Pacino over the edge. This is not it. He looks pooped and pickled. Maybe being the only thing standing between a megaplex opening and a trip straight to the $4.99 bin at Target wiped him out. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter Travers
I'm guessing it's the pressure of an idiot script by Gary Scott Thompson and understandably clueless direction from Jon Avnet that forces Pacino to ham it up so vigorously that you want to garnish him with cloves and a slice of pineapple. Read full review
20
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
This ridiculous thriller would be hard-pressed to last much longer than its title in theaters before doing time on DVD, as is already the case in many overseas territories. Read full review
20
Film ThreatPete Vonder Haar
One small step for bad filmmaking and one giant leap for the increasing insignificance of the former Michael Corleone. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Attica! Attica! Everyone involved in the creation of this muddled, joyless, and deadly dull serial killer-meets-forensic psychiatrist snoozefest should be forced to spend – at the very least – 88 minutes behind Attica's bars. Read full review
16
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
Actually, it's pretty much the definition of absurd. Read full review
12
New York PostKyle Smith
88 Minutes holds you in a state of acute suspense, keeping you wondering until the very last minute whether this is the worst Al Pacino movie ever made. Read full review
10
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Ludicrous in the extreme, the picture easily snatches from "Revolution" the prize as Al Pacino's career worst. Read full review
0
Village VoiceElla Taylor
We may have to sit through worse films to come this year, but with any luck, there'll be none as guilelessly, idiotically misogynist as this one. Read full review
0
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
A stinker, the more so for the thespian excesses of the accomplished cast. Read full review
0
New York Daily NewsJoe Neumaier
This slimy, slug-minded mystery thriller starts out dead on arrival and then, like three-day-old fish, gets really bad really fast. Read full review
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