But without losing

Holden 2021-12-30 17:21:24

It is another "very suspect" game. Obviously, the biggest highlight of this movie is Al Pacino. No matter how complicated and fancy the plot is, the highlight can only be Al Pacino. The movie itself, the top half is tight, the bottom half is tight, of course, the control is pretty good, not irritating.
The climax of the suspense movie is at the end. If you don’t play well, your previous work is often lost. This movie is no exception. If Carol and Kim call Jack to come to the office and reveal the answer, then it must be a bad movie, but the actual situation is also true. I didn't get any better. I saw Lauren standing on the roof with a gun. My heart was finished, and my baggage trembled. That's how it was. No matter how many tricks in the front, the suspects went from Guy to Mike, even the school police and the front desk of the apartment, and then to a few beauties. After a long circle, Jon Avnet still had to lift his hijab helplessly at the end: everyone, that's it. . As uninteresting as Jason Statham's "Chaos".
When Peng Haoxiang's "Big Man" went out on the street, many people admired Mao Shunyun and Zeng Zhiwei's end of the dark battle, and someone immediately jumped out and said that they should be grateful to "The Usual Suspects" for giving Peng Fatty inspiration. In any case, it was a successful imitation. Moreover, Peng Haoxiang was shooting a laugh film. "88 minutes" couldn't learn from his unintentional cutting willow, and spent so much effort in front of it. In the end, there was no way to get away easily.
From last year to this year, "The Prestige" and "Chaos", plus this "88 Minutes", have similar patterns and similar endings. Fortunately, there are all big names for insurance, and the film is not too bad.
Al Pacino, this neurotic, perverse, expressive Italian with a perfect hoarse voice, he is also old, 67 years old, no longer like the spirited spirit of "Dog Day Afternoon", the lean and rough in "Heat", " The evil spirit in "The Devil's Advocate" is so evil, but he is still Al Pacino. Towards the end of the film, the old man yelled at William Forsythe, who was still the Italian squad.
Also worth mentioning is Neal McDonough. This guy has also played a lot of movies, but what is impressive is that it is the honest and brave Buck of the brothers. This time he unexpectedly performed a high IQ contradiction and performed so-so. William Forsythe, also an old supporting actor, is the FBI director of the port area in "The Rock". After shaved his beard, he is so young that he is unrecognizable.
Jon Avnet, a little-known director, made such a film, barely but without losing it, but the background music uses the piano music that is used in suspense films, which is really unbearable.
The last thing to say is that Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, these two 60-year-old Italians are going to collaborate again. The new film is called "Righteous Kill". Unfortunately, it is still the director. Don't be nostalgic.

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Extended Reading
  • Cathy 2022-03-27 09:01:08

    The whole movie has been inducing the audience that the real criminal is the second personality of Al Pacino's schizophrenia. In the end, he casually dragged out a person to become a criminal. It feels like Conan. The statement of high IQ movies is completely hopeless, is it still embarrassing to say that it is high IQ? upset

  • Friedrich 2021-12-30 17:21:24

    There are Violet in private practice, Billy in Knight Rider 2008, Bill in True Blood, and Eddie's husband in the fifth season of Desperate Housewives.

88 Minutes quotes

  • Jeremy Guber: Would you say it was fair to characterize your attitude towards Jon Forster as a personal vendetta?

    Jack Gramm: Well, if we're being fair, yeah, sure. It's a personal vendetta. I have a personal vendetta against Ted Bundy, Gacy, and about ten or fifteen other serial murderers who are floating around in the streets right now.

  • Dale Morris: [giving toast] To our impossibly difficult professor, we say thank you for making our lives miserable.

    Jack Gramm: The pleasure's all mine!