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.

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Harrison Ford in “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.”

“Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”

Steven Spielberg’s beloved adventure series has built its own Temple of Hype — but the latest installment manages to surprise and delight.

A few months back, just before the release of Chak De India,” I happened to be standing near a poster for the movie at PVR Bangalore. A young man, who looked to be in his 20s, walked up and, after spending a few seconds surveying the image of hockey playing girls in their quaint get-ups — like hockey players from another world — said to his girlfriend, a little wistfully, “I don’t know why, but I want to see this.”

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