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Manohla Dargis, New York Times: Although it's often laugh-out-loud laughably bad, 88 Minutes is mostly just a slog. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: The galumphing serial-killer picture 88 Minutes is dumb enough to be straight out of the parodies in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: The only enjoyable elements to this film are Pacino's impressively hardworking hair (no matter how bad Jack Gramm's day gets, his exuberant hair looks fabulous). Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The illogical script by Gary Scott Thompson is desperate to keep us guessing but clueless as to how. Every tin of red herring in the store gets ripped open. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The preposterous "88 Minutes" is a serial killer movie starring Al Pacino's festival of hair. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: What a bore. I guessed the identity of the killer from the character's second appearance, and I'm not that smart. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Here's the thing about Pacino: He's often at his most entertaining when he's chewing the scenery.... Watching a great actor raise the roof is often more enjoyable than watching an OK actor deliver the goods. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Throughout which, you ask: Why is Al Pacino in this movie?... The better question: Why are you in the theater? Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: It takes eight minutes, tops, to know that even by the conventionally lax standards of watch-and-toss serial-killer movies, 88 Minutes is a stinker, the more so for the thespian excesses of the accomplished cast. Read more
Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com: If you like your women half-naked, strung upside-down from pulleys, and sliced like deli meat, this is the movie for you. Whether the victims are more tortured than the plot is a serious question. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: With its lumbering efforts at black humor and phony pretense to moral complexity, 88 Minutes is an ugly specimen on just about every front. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: 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 more
Rafer Guzman, Newsday: If you lower your expectations and keep a sense of humor, even that large popcorn will seem worth the money. Read more
Anthony Lane, New Yorker: Nothing would give me keener pleasure than to reveal the identity of the killer, but a day after seeing the film I have genuinely forgotten. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: When the doubting-cop character in a movie like this asks the hero 'Do you have any idea how absurd that sounds?' -- well, he's really voicing the screenwriter's own darkest fears. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: This slimy, slug-minded mystery thriller starts out dead on arrival and then, like three-day-old fish, gets really bad really fast. And it stays bad, ensnaring its star and every other cast member in its wretched net. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: 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 more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: 88 Minutes will add a little more luster to a career that has not been adequately appreciated perhaps because of the suspiciously seductive power of a little man with an outsize talent. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Markedly un-thrilling. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: A maddeningly mediocre, ineptly manipulative 'real-time' thriller. (A real-time thriller that's almost 20 minutes longer than its title suggests.) Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Avnet lays all this stuff out before us with a straight face -- the picture is humorless and witless. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Too bad the sober tone only makes for a movie that pretends at seriousness but that can't really be taken seriously. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Preposterous in design, abysmal in execution and laugh-out-loud funny when it's straining for drama, the film doesn't even honor the lean-and-mean promise of its title. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: This new serial-killer thriller is such a preposterous mess it's a wonder it ever made it to the theatre. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: This movie is Battlefield Earth bad. It's 10,000 B.C. bad. It's bad with a side of fries and a cherry cola. Read more
David Fear, Time Out: Now that this stupendously inept serial-killer flick has slithered into theaters, the diminutive legend had better clear room in his closet for another cinematic skeleton. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: An inane thriller whose major fear factor hinges on a menacing phone call, the film also relies on a silly phrase intended to fill the viewer with unspeakable terror: 'Tick tock, Doc.' Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: The picture easily snatches from Revolution the prize as Al Pacino's career worst. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: 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 more