Cut To The Chase: Don’t waste your time.

Opening tomorrow, 88 Minutes stars Al Pacino as Dr. Jack Gramm, a college professor and a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI. A series of murders are being committed that match the work of a serial killer on death row whom Gramm help send to prison. When Gramm receives a death threat claiming he has only 88 minutes to live, he uses his skills and training to try and narrow down the possible suspects and the connection to the murders before his time runs out. Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobieski, Amy Brenneman and Neal McDonough also star.

To say this movie is getting ripped to shreds by the critics would be an understatement. Metacritic.com, which compiles reviews from movie critics around the world, has ranked the film at #3 on their All-Time lowest review scores. Having seen the film, I must say that while it is far from being a good movie, I don’t feel it deserves to be so vilified. I can easily think of several recent films that are much worse (Thanks again, Dane Cook). Perhaps it’s because Al Pacino is considered to be such a good actor, with a list of several incredible film roles, that makes this movie seem so much worse than the movies out there that are expected to suck. For an Oscar-winning actor with such credibility, this is a remarkably weak movie. Continue reading →

Living up to his reputation as the most unfunny and annoying guy in movies today, Dane Cook has scored another romantic-comedy with a paper-thin plot. And just to make matters worse, it also stars Kate Hudson, his female equivalent. The movies is called “My Best Friend’s Girl” (formerly “Bachelor #2″) and Myspace has scored a trailer. You might be saying “Oh come on, they aren’t that bad.” But wait, you haven’t seen the trailer yet:

Following in the footsteps of the absolutely horrible “Good Luck Chuck”, Dane Cook pretty much recycles the idea and twists it a bit. Here is the description at ComingSoon.net:

My Best Friend’s Girl, opening September 19, stars Dane Cook, Kate Hudson, Jason Biggs and Alec Baldwin. In the film, Cook plays Tank, a master at seducing – and offending – women. When guys get dumped, they hire Tank to take their ex-girlfriends out on the worst date of their lives – an experience so horrible it sends them running gratefully back to their beaus. So when Tank’s best friend, Dustin (Biggs), is dumped by his new girlfriend, Tank naturally offers to help out… and ends up meeting the challenge of a lifetime. Smart, beautiful and headstrong, Alexis (Hudson) is the first girl who knows how to call his bluff, and Tank soon finds himself torn between his loyalty to Dustin and his love for his best friend’s girl.

Part of me wants to see this just to reinforce my suspicion that Dane Cook is the devil sent to destroy us. But another part of me doesn’t think I can sit through him AND Kate Hudson. In theaters, September 19 (on DVD probably by September 20).