Very disappointing...

Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

"80 Minutes" is "DOA" for the post-Tarantino generation. Thomas Jahn proves to be a better director than writer (something which, judging by his IMDb page, he seems to have realized himself; after 2011, he only directs): the film maintains a speedy forward movement, and it has some good car stunts. But the dialogue is often amateurish, and the ending practically cancels out the entire movie! I've seen this type of ending done before, successfully, ("The Game" comes to mind), but here it just makes "80 Minutes" a waste of, well, a few more than 80 minutes. Also, the stupendously sexy Natalia Avelon is wasted in a rather minor part. *1/2 out of 4.

..o.k., o.k., the "minutes" aspect of critiquing this film are growing tiresome. But, seriously, when I started viewing this movie, it became apparent that this was a dog. The characters were flat, stereotypical, and almost all (especially the protagonist) unlikeable.Another tipoff that the director has nothing to say is his reliance on gimmicks like the unfortunate tendency to film everything in jiggle-cam like the Bourne flicks with quick cutaways and too-tight face shots. The rancid colors tend to be off-putting as well.The whole effect was disagreeable bordering on the revolting -- and this accomplished with little or no gore.HYPER-SPOILER ALERT! So the protagonist owes a restaurateur friend fifteen large and he shows up to collect. The restaurateur/lender injects the protagonist with some Amazonian death drug that (of course) has been co-opted by the CIA, FBI, DIA, ATF, and other gratuitously mentioned evil government agencies and causes death in -- strangely enough -- eighty minutes. His mission is to come up with the money he owes in that time or else he will mysteriously die, the symptoms resembling a heart attack. Of course the evil lender has the antidote and will, upon being repaid the debt, provide it to the protagonist so that he can avert his grisly fate.Bam! Off he goes, scurrying around for a majority of the movie trying to put the touch on someone yet another loan to cover his debt.Of course this is shot at night, so there are no S&Ls or credit unions open at that hour and the guy does not own anything with any equity so a collateral loan is out of the question.But I digress.Anyway, he returns to his place (where the evil lender awaits) brandishing an automatic and informs him that he has located someone who will go his bail but, inexplicably, the antidote is denied him, the phial crashing on the floor.Presumably this dooms the hero who pumps a full clip into the lender with a conveniently placed stopwatch in the lower left hand corner of the screen ticking down to zero...but our hero does not die. All of this fades to black and white, the lights come up, a curtain raises, and out step all all of his friends (including the lender) who sing "happy birthday" to him as part of a macabre surprise party.Warm embraces, "I was just kidding's", and hearty handshakes, obligatory boogalooing, etc. abound as all is forgiven and the whole thing declared one damn fine joke! Were I the protagonist, I would have slammed another clip into the Glock and wasted as many of those cretins as I could.Oh yes, how to avoid wasting 80 minutes of your life aside from watching this dreadful movie? Well, I fast-forwarded through it.But you can just read this review and figure it out.

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.

Incredible... how could one manage to get people to work in such a project when everything is so obviously far beyond ultra bad!? i mean I've watched a lot of bad movies, but we only finished watching this one because we couldn't believe that it was that predictable and unsatisfying pathetic. i'm really angry right now that i wasted so much of my time. by the way can somebody tell me how the hell they manage to meet each other over and over again after all the high speed chasing, especially the subjects on foot seem to catch up very easy... must have been stolen from the Red Flash. The dialogs are lame non convincing and boring. even the potheads seem like crappy actors and even i know at least 10 people who would have made a much better job here.the stripper nurse is a f celebrity from Germany most of the spoken English sounds awfully German. all you want to do is step into the movie , slap the actors and tell them to please continue and move on with the plot, if there were one. and why do Germans make movies in English anyhow ? this comment honors the move far to much because you should not even take the time to think about seeing it.