Review - Movie

88: 88 Minutes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Starring: Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Benjamin McKenzie, Deborah Kara Unger, Leelee Sobieski, Director: Jon Avnet

Producer: George Furla, Jon Avnet, Michael P. Flannigan, Randall Emmett

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures Release Date: April 18, 2008

Writer: Gary Scott Thompson

The story is about a man who is a college professor. He teaches students psychology. He also works as a forensic psychiatrist for a FBI. Once somebody called him and says that he has only 88 minutes to live. He must use all his skills to find the answer for the question: “Who is threatening him?” before his time is up. It might his close friend, one of his students or somebody from his a job in FBI.

Actually, I think the trailer looked very good. In the beginning of film I thought that it was a typical crime film, and it is not interesting, nothing exciting and special are not going to happen. In the middle of the film I changed my mind and I found that this movie is excellent! Yes, some of the actors gave weak performances but it’s not too bad. Al Pacino was as great as ever and managed to play his character extremely well. The film keeps you guessing during the whole film who commits the killings. All the scenes were very well connected and you actually know what's going on throughout the film. Some parts of the film were very funny.

Anyway, you don't find out who the killer is until the last part of the film, just like many other thrillers. Nevertheless, if you enjoy these kinds of movies you should watch it. You will spend your time in pretty good way.