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Save your money, '88 Minutes' is lame
by Garon Nemyre | Freelance Reporter |
One of these enemies is death row inmate Jon Forster, played by Neal McDonough, who's about to die by lethal injection as a result of Gramm's testimony. But despite his being behind bars, someone is still roaming the streets of Seattle committing copycat killings of Forster's work, leading the geniuses in law enforcement to immediately assume that Gramm's testimony must be wrong and Forster must be innocent.
At the same time, Gramm receives a cryptic call from a robotic voice informing him he has just 88 minutes to live. Gramm, being the superhero psychiatrist he is, deduces that he, along with a handful of his grad students, would be best fit to solve the mystery, so for a vast majority of the movie he keeps anyone who might actually be fit to handle the job in the dark.
What ensues is a run-around of illogical twists and turns that drag on for far too long and set up an ending that I couldn't make up if I tried. I won't be a spoiler of this spoiled film, but I will say that if, and I do stress the "if," you are able to make it to the end of this film, you will be blown away by just how bad a movie really can get.
If you're forced to see this movie, then try to look for the few bright spots where Pacino gets irate and shows flashes of his days of yelling passionately in "Scent of a Woman."
If you're not forced to see it, then don't. Save your money. Rent "The Godfather."
At the same time, Gramm receives a cryptic call from a robotic voice informing him he has just 88 minutes to live. Gramm, being the superhero psychiatrist he is, deduces that he, along with a handful of his grad students, would be best fit to solve the mystery, so for a vast majority of the movie he keeps anyone who might actually be fit to handle the job in the dark.
What ensues is a run-around of illogical twists and turns that drag on for far too long and set up an ending that I couldn't make up if I tried. I won't be a spoiler of this spoiled film, but I will say that if, and I do stress the "if," you are able to make it to the end of this film, you will be blown away by just how bad a movie really can get.
If you're forced to see this movie, then try to look for the few bright spots where Pacino gets irate and shows flashes of his days of yelling passionately in "Scent of a Woman."
If you're not forced to see it, then don't. Save your money. Rent "The Godfather."
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