Release Date: 09/02/2008
Label/Distributor: Well Go USA
Rating: Unrated
Retail Price: $19.98
Genre: Action & Adventure Cast: Gabriel Mann,Max Urlacher
Director: Thomas Jahn
Running Time: 98
DVD Video Options: Color,DVD-Video,NTSC
DVD Audio Options: English;Original Language
UPC Code: 181582000135
ALEX NORTH is waiting excitedly for his beautiful girlfriend MONA to celebrate the night of his birthday. But instead of Mona his old friend WALTER shows up what a surprise! But Walter is fed up with Alex and wants his money back... Now! No joke, he grabs Alex, ties him up and injects him a deadly poison. Alex can t believe it. If he doesn t do as told, he is a dead man. Alex has exactly 80 MINUTES left to come up with $15,000 and save his life. Only then will Walter give him the antidote. A hell of a real time ride through Berlin begins. Love, betrayal, car crashes and a contemptuous murder all inclusive. The clock is ticking...
80 Minutes
By Ed Hulse -- Video Business, 8/11/2008
WELL GO USAStreet: Sept. 2
Prebook: now
> Competent enough knockoff of recent real-time thrillers.
Borrowing equally from Crank and the soon-to-be-released 88 Minutes, this derivative, German-made thriller stars Gabriel Mann as Alex North, a feckless man injected with a fast-acting poison—the antidote to which he’ll receive if he comes up with the $15,000 he owes the poisoner. With only 80 minutes to dig up the cash, the increasingly desperate Alex takes a long chance. It’s not easy to craft a convincing real-time thriller, and this grade-B effort doesn’t quite cut the mustard, owing to general weaknesses in the story, acting and direction. It’ll provide passable entertainment to undiscriminating viewers, but some will have trouble getting past the yarn’s familiarity.
Shelf Talk: The distributor promises reviews in upcoming issues of Reader’s Digest and Entertainment Weekly, along with a viral marketing campaign that will include banner ads, targeted e-mail blasts and exposure on Google, MySpace and YouTube. Don’t be surprised if customers confuse it with 88 Minutes, which streets Sept. 16.
Thriller, color, NR (mature themes, language, violence), 98 min., DVD $19.98Extras: none
Director: Thomas Jahn
First Run: DVD premiere
