96 Minutes stretches well beyond its supposed real-time urgency, padding the crisis with unnecessary exposition and overexplained emotional backstory.

Lin and his co-star Vivian Sung work well together as they strive to save the day, and there's fine support from Lee Lee-zen as Lin's harried superior.

Hung’s ambitious screenplay poses some legitimate moral quandaries about the value of one life against another. ... Unfortunately, 96 Minutes lacks the narrative dexterity to draw much of a conclusion beyond revenge definitely being bad.

Austin Lin and Vivian Sung lead a melodramatic, but thrilling race-against-time whodunit thriller.