Still Dozing in office as not much work today. Downloaded few movies today.. one being 88 minutes and the other being “The Forbidden Kingdom”. Some review for the movie… In this post review for “88 minutes”.
Al Pacino tries hard to make this squirrelly thriller worth your time. Above is the Movie trailer
Director: Jon Avnet Screenwriter: Gary Scott Thompson Starring: Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobieski, Amy Brenneman, Deborah Kara Unger, Benjamin McKenzie, Neal McDonough
The only reason to see an Al Pacino movie these days is Al Pacino. And maybe that’s not even a good enough reason. In Jon Avnet’s listless, squirrelly and ultimately nonsensical thriller “88 Minutes” Pacino plays Jack Gramm, a star forensic psychiatrist and professor responsible for sending a man whom he believes to be a serial killer, John Forster (Neal McDonough), to the electric chair. On the day the sicko is scheduled to die, Gramm receives a mysterious call on his cellphone: He has 88 minutes to live. But trust me, it feels more like around 236.
In a culture full of reasons to say “no,” it takes a lot of courage to find ways to say “yes.”
We’re taught to say “no” from a very young age, after all. For most of us, our first word was “no”, and it quickly became our favorite word. As toddlers and teenagers, we used “no” to differentiate ourselves from our parents, peers, and surroundings. It’s how we began to control what was happening around us, or at least, how we tried to control that. It helped us over those early developmental hurdles, and gave us our earliest sense of our personal boundaries — and that’s a lot of significance bound up in such a tiny word!
The problem isn’t that “no” in and of itself is somehow bad; indeed, giving yourself permission to say “no” as an adult can keep you out of an awful lot of trouble.
