qaz258852 A quiet birthday celebration at home turns into a desperate race against the clock when a man is injected with poison and given eighty minutes to settle a lingering debt in Knockin' On Heaven's Door director Thomas Jahn's relentlessly tense white-knuckle thriller. Alex North is sitting at home and awaiting the arrival of his girlfriend Mona when an unexpected knock at the door reveals his old friend Walter, a likable restaurant owner who is inexplicably flanked by a pair of muscular thugs. When Alex failed to pay back the $15,000 he borrowed from Walter, he thought that his old friend would be a bit more understanding. But Walter wants his money back tonight, and in order to give Alex some incentive to work fast, he injects him with a time-release poison that will prove should an antidote fail to be administered within the next eighty minutes. Desperate, Alex races to his brother Vincent and gets into a serious car accident along the way. But the other people who were involved in the accident are none too pleased, and quickly give chase as Alex beats a hasty retreat to his brother's house. As Alex attempts to convince Vincent to give him the money that will save his life, he realizes that the police are hot on his trail as well. Not only that, but a vicious biker gang seems determined to track down Alex and his two buddies Floyd and Lloyd. Later, after seeing Lloyd shot dead by the leader of the gang, Alex manages to elude the pistol- packing bikers with a little help from Mona. Just as Alex begins to feel the effects of the poison that's currently coursing though his veins, he reaches Walter's restaurant prepared to pay off his debt. But Walter seems reluctant to accept Alex's payment. It's been quite a wild night for everyone involved, and before this debt is settled Walter has one last surprise for his old friend Alex. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Tom DeFelice WARNING!!!! SPOILER ALERT!!! If you are curious/interested in this movie...if there is some overwhelming reason why you want to see it (Xenia Seeberg of LEXX fame has a small part), do not read this review.I never give the surprise ending away. I detest people who do. But after spending 90 minutes watching this waste of time...(if it's called "80 minutes", why is it 90 minutes long?)...I am giving the ending away.SPOILER ALERT!!! The entire story is a birthday gag. The poison, the deaths, the entire tension of the film is a put on. There is no poison. The 15,000 debt has already been paid. No one dies. Everyone is in on the gag. It's all a birthday joke played on the main character. In the end they all hoist a pint in his honor.Arghhhh!!!!!!Don't waste your time. Stay away from this. You've been warned.

Rodrigo Amaro "80 Minutes" tells the story of Alex (Gabriel Mann) a guy who owes money to some bad guys and they want the money back as fast as possible. How they gonna make Alex give them the money if he doesn't have any? They inject a powerful poison through his veins giving to Alex life enough for 80 minutes to get the money and receive an antidote. From here you might think that the plot is going to be very predictable with a man running away the whole movie trying to get the money, trying to save his life in possible ways. And you're right! You may have seen that before in "Crank" and in the underrated thriller "DOA" (1988). There isn't so many differences between all these films except a few things that can make a great movie or a bad movie being what it is. In the case of "80 Minutes" the script comes with annoying and dumb situations, e.g. the character in the Jaguar who appears to make Alex's life something more pathetical after an traffic accident where this guy's Jaguar end up being smashed. And this guy starts to chase Alex just because of that and of course he doesn't know what's happening with the hero. He's only there to annoy the viewer and make the clock goes faster to Alex. There's also in the script some dumbfounding bad lines that are simply thrown on the screen for repetitive and funny purposes. I can't remember the scene exactly but there was moments after someone got killed during a scene and the characters kept saying "You shot him, man" or "He's dead, man!" so many times that I laughed a bit. That drags you out of the film, and you don't care about anyone there, the tension disappeared.The film was directed and edited by Thomas Jahn. In the first function he goes okay. On the second one he is awful. Excessive cuts, shaky camera, no planning at all. Everything is confusing and I thought to myself while I was watching it that I could and can do a better job with using Windows Media Player, seriously.But you may wonder why I'm giving 6 stars to this. It is a quite watchable film, with some good moments and the daring of the writer for using the same ending of David Fincher's "The Game". In the case of Fincher's film was very interesting to see, it worked very well. In the case of "80 Minutes" I felt betrayed, hated it and loved it at the same time. That doesn't mean it works. Many people will simply hate it because it was just too simple and absurd and it denies everything that just happened, kind of a silly ending.And the 6 goes for because I've seen worst things than this film (but I've seen better things too). But it's better to watch a weak film than to have worst situations in life. That's just my opinion. 6/10

stingva22 Once you get past the heavy accents and clearly Non-American dialog/culture/license plate continuity problems...the story is grudgingly possible. That is assuming they were trying to make a story that was set in America. But if you're looking for goofy action this is it. However, just when I was starting to get interested in the moral issue of friends vs money at the end...there is a plot twist that really ticked me off. I wish that they'd spent just a little bit more time fleshing this out and it might have actually been a good renter.SPOILERIt was all a set up for his birthday party?!?!?! Really? Really.