A dull slog through pornography, brutality and voyeurism, punctuated by beatings, shootings and knifings.
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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
A pointless, violent, torture-or-be-tortured flick!
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Pure voyeuristic sleaze!
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If Schumacher wants to make some porn, fine -- First Amendment and all that. He can do whatever the hell he likes. But he can't pretend to make a statement against porn with a piece of voyeuristic and pornographic crap like 8MM.
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Preposterous, pretentious.
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Top CriticThe mystery is more or less resolved in an overblown sequence that comes at the end of act two, and the revelations are contrived and incredibly underwhelming.
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When it goes serious, it gets silly.
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Top CriticThe major reason this film ultimately fails is miscasting.
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Eight Millimeter demonstrates the extent that non-challenging roles have stymied Mr. Cage's talent.
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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.
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Top CriticRarely a bore, and often finds the slick energy of the most effective dark action films.
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Disintegrates into a horribly cliched mess.
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As the ending credits roll, your reaction is likely to be, 'Why did they mess up such a promising movie?'
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The horror. The horror.
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Unsavory and unpleasant: violence against women is not entertainment.
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Distasteful. Not persuasive.
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Top CriticDark, dingy, overly violent, unpleasant and unfathomable. In all, not a pretty picture.
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