88

2015 "There are two sides to every story."
4.9| 1h28m| NR| en| More Info
Released: 05 August 2015 Released
Producted By: Wango Films
Country: Canada
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.88themovie.com/
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A young woman comes to in a roadside diner with no idea where she is or how she got there. Split between two timelines, she gets taken on a violent journey as she seeks out the person responsible for her lover's death.

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adonis98-743-186503 A young woman comes to in a roadside diner with no idea where she is or how she got there. Split between two timelines, she gets taken on a violent journey as she seeks out the person responsible for her lover's death. You would expect that a film like this starring 2 great and talented people such as Christopher Lloyd and Michael Ironside too bad that 88 doesn't make any sense at all just from that scene in the diner i knew that the film was going to suck it basically made no sense and it kept going back and forth to the past and future and it made even less sense also the acting was pretty awful too so yeah don't see this film for your own safety at least.
bill-37-3753 Every once in awhile you see a movie and get surprised at least I do. Nowadays anyone with half a brain can see a bad movie coming..... This movie had me thinking B - Grade movie. Names were not to familiar to me. Katherine Isabelle was awesome and surprised the heck out of me. Yes, it was a little bit to much to follow , here , there , this time , that time but I settled in.........on the performance of Katherine. I would say it is a must see over a lot of movies with higher billing and more famous stars. The 10 lines.........agh. Cool movie , surprisingly good actress carrying the entire movie with ease. Katherine Isabelle is stunning in more ways than one in this performance hope to see her do more.
svartamoln Must confess I'm quite disappointed after watching this because it seemed to be a good movie and I thought it would be so but it wasn't, I got bored several times. If you watch this you will see many deaths, a lot of blood and a storyline that could be great. There are two things I really liked about this movie, the first one is the fact that at first the storyline gets really confusing, flashbacks here, flashbacks there, two girls on scene (two personalities), one single actress, you don't know which one is real and which one isn't so you want to know how this story will end because you really don't know what's happening and that kept me watching the movie until the end. The second thing I liked was of course the acting of Katharine Isabelle, I really don't know why this girl isn't in a Hollywood movie, she is sufficiently good to be part of a big project, she is even better than those well-paid actresses that their only talent is to be pretty, anyway she did a really good job making the storyline more realistic, but despite her good acting there's nothing she could have done to enhance this movie because the director and the writers are responsible for the poor results, in my opinion clearly.Finally I can't recommend this movie, 4 stars is the best I can give and most of it was thanks to Katharine Isabelle.
A_Different_Drummer Short Review: This writer wrote a very positive review of American Mary (here on the IMDb) noting that it was not only a superbly produced and directed little indie, but that it finally gave Isabelle room to shine, and she was brilliant in it. The implication was that casting directors would take note and her next film would be a step up .... well, that did not exactly happen....Longer Review: To understand this film you need to understand two things initially: (a) The films made and distributed in the 1970s were a reaction by film-makers to industrial-quality and soul-less films produced in the 60s, possibly the last decade where the big studios from the 1930s still held sway. The films of the 70s -- now almost a "lost decade" to reviewers -- deliberately broke all the rules of editing, pacing, cinematography, continuity ... to be different, to make a point. As such, they succeeded, but they still were not especially good films, nor did audiences get much joy from them.(b) what the Canadian and Austalian film industry have in common is that both are creatures of government fiscal policy, not responses to viewer demand. In other words, both were artificially created by bureaucrats. In the case of Canada, the industry lucked out when American producers, fed up with high costs and tough unions, saw a chance to reduce top-line costs by shooting in the North. While the Canadian industry is financially successful, and has spawned some excellent product, it still remains the easiest venue in which to produce knock-offs, bad sequels, and B-movies where the main goal is a successful financing and not necessarily a satisfied audience.SO...With these two concepts firmly in mind, I would opine that Isabelle's much-awaited followup to American Mary is, disappointingly, a weird and vacuous homage to the 70s style of film-making, featuring an incomprehensible plot, erratic direction and editing, and massive stretches with no dialog at all because -- frankly -- that saves even more top-line money for the production. That it was produced in Canada only serves to emphasize how this was at its core a financial exercise, not an artistic one. And to those reviewers who dare suggest that the presence of Christopher Lloyd and Michael Ironside somehow raises this to an A-class production, all I can say PA-LEEZE, the former is at a point in his career where any work is good work; and the latter has of late mainly become a voice actor for animation. (The fact that Ironside himself is Canadian and started his career by making Canadian films in the 70s only adds a new and un-needed sheen of irony to any discussion of "88").