Fine entertainment if you've got a strong stomach.
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01/01/00
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8MM (1998)
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Reviews Counted:78
Fresh:17
Rotten:61
Average Rating:4.1/10
Consensus: Its sadistic violence is unappealing and is lacking in suspense and mystery.
Runtime: 2 hrs 8 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Nicholas Cage plays Tom Welles, a straight-laced surveillance specialist. His innocent, naive world begins to unravel when he is hired by the widow of an industrialist to investigate what she has... [More]
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini, Catherine Keener
Director: Joel Schumacher
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01/01/00
This is not a movie for the squeamish, by any means. But for those who like their thrillers dark and their heroes a bit more complicated and flawed than the average shoot-without-a-blink type so prevalent in today's movies, 8MM fills the bill.
01/01/00
Cage is the film's greatest asset!
01/01/00
Intense but very engaging.
01/01/00
One of the most daring and attentive films of the year.
01/01/00
A return to form for director Joel Schumacher.
01/01/00
t's a comlpex achievement; exciting, sad and profound at the same time. It's also one of the year's first pleasant surprises.
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01/01/00
Director Joel Schumacher steadily turns on the tension.
01/01/00
Powerfully played and conscientiously filmed!
01/01/00
It is good work by Schumacher, but hard to watch nonetheless.
02/08/03
I can't say I warmed to the results, but I was solidly held for the film's two hours.
09/17/08
Top CriticSe salva por el buen oficio de su director y por la adecuada edición que presenta, pero pudo haber ido más allá y dejar de ser un thriller como tantos otros
01/01/00
8mm is neither the sick exploitation film nor the risible misfire the critics had prepared us for -- it is a movie of serious intent.
12/08/02
It is a real film. Not a slick exploitation exercise with all the trappings of depravity but none of the consequences. Not a film where moral issues are forgotten in the excitement of an action climax.
01/01/00
Top CriticRarely a bore, and often finds the slick energy of the most effective dark action films.
01/01/00
There's no faulting Cage's committed, intense performance, but his slide from professional, internalised concern into personal, self-righteous rage still leaves a nasty aftertaste.
01/26/06
Poorly developed, 8mm is anything but a pretty picture.
09/17/08
My advice is get drunk, cook dinner, watch infomercials or do your taxes -- anything to keep those two hours for yourself.
01/01/00
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