In Seattle, the successful forensic psychiatrist and college professor Jack Gramm is in evidence since he was responsible for the condemnation of the serial killer Jon Forster, influencing the jury to sentence him to the death row. Jon accuses Jack of manipulation, inducing one witness and sister of one of his victims to testify against him. On the eve of Jon's execution, Jack receives a phone call telling him that he has only eighty-eight minutes of life, while a killer is copycatting Jon, killing women with the same "modus-operandi" and is investigated by Seattle Slayer Task Force. With the support of his former wife and associated Shelly Barnes, the FBI agent and his friend Frank Parks and his assistant Kim Cummings, Jack investigate some weird and problematic students, a security guard of the campus and the woman with whom he had one night stand.
This movie is barely coming out now in the theatres and people may not realize it was made quite awhile ago, but never released... in theatres that is. There have been copies of this movie floating around the internet over a year ago. With all this said, it sounds like the movie is really crappy and the studio was afraid to release it right? Well the movie is no classic, but I do have to say I was pleasently surprised with it. It didn't offer anything groundbreaking with a movie, but it succeeded in being very entertaining.
It has its fair share of cliche moments and sometimes you will think you have been there and done that with the movie, but it throws enough curve balls to have you still slightly guessing... even if you think you have figured the whole thing out. There are also some plot holes and times where you need to suspend reality with the story, but Pacino plays the part pretty well with what he was given to work with.
My Score: 7/10
IMDB Score: 6.3/10 (10,000 votes)
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