The premise is interesting, although disturbing, but the film strikes out on three pitches.
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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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Reviews for 8MM
Has none of the mystery or suspense that helped Seven rise above the filth in which it sought to wallow.
01/01/00
Top Critic8mm 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
I'd like to think the project would have fared better in more eclectic hands, say Gus Van Sant, or perhaps Roman Polanski, but what's done is done and what's done is maybe not what it could have been.
09/09/02
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03/24/02
In the end, the surprise plot twists make perfect sense, and it becomes clear that the mystery that's supposed to be driving the suspense was obvious from the beginning.
06/05/02
Walker and Schumacher have made a rather ordinary picture with an ironically self-righteous mean streak.
01/01/00
Poorly developed, 8mm is anything but a pretty picture.
09/17/08
A dull slog through pornography, brutality and voyeurism, punctuated by beatings, shootings and knifings.
01/01/00
I can't say I warmed to the results, but I was solidly held for the film's two hours.
09/17/08
Top CriticIt 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 CriticWhen it goes serious, it gets silly.
01/01/00
Top CriticJust when we thought Mel Gibson had plumbed the lowest depths of big-studio nastiness in Payback, along comes Nicolas Cage to do him one better.
01/01/00
I could not get past the pathology lurking just below the skin of this story -- its false morality, its prurient absorption in sexual violence, its sadistic glee over the hero’s degradation.
10/15/02
Intense but very engaging.
01/01/00
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01/01/00
Cage is the film's greatest asset!
01/01/00
The major reason this film ultimately fails is miscasting.
01/01/00
Director Joel Schumacher steadily turns on the tension.
01/01/00
Disintegrates into a horribly cliched mess.
01/01/00
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