88 MINUTES of my life wasted

Predictable. Mundane. Pacing is wonky. Characters have the depth of the paper the story was written on. And ultimately the plot was WAY over thought and forced.

I have a feeling that the writers of 88 MINUTES were thinking more about plot twists as opposed to worrying about having an actual working plot to base to twists on.

The main premise of this story is as follows: A forensic psychiatrist (Al Pacino) is told he's got 88 minutes to live because of an alleged false testimony he gave YEARS ago putting a criminal who raped and killed his little sister on death row. Pacino now has only 88 minutes to find out who's on the outside trying to kill him...meanwhile, there's a serial killer on the loose who's calling card is hanging his victims upsidedown by one leg and slitting there throats (see what I mean by writer's forcing it to be original).

There literally is no saving grace in this movie. Pacino tries his best to make a bad script work as he always does but no one, short of God Himself, could save this movie.

A much better smarter and excellent real-time based movie would be 1995's NICK OF TIME starring Johnny Depp. So I recommend renting that movie before advising anyone to pay money to see 88 MINUTES.

2.5 out of 10 (I'm not even going to waste my time thinking of a clever way to rank this.)