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03/14/05
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.
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
Reviews for 8MM
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06/18/02
Top CriticDark, dingy, overly violent, unpleasant and unfathomable. In all, not a pretty picture.
01/01/00
Top CriticPoorly developed, 8mm is anything but a pretty picture.
09/17/08
I can't say I warmed to the results, but I was solidly held for the film's two hours.
09/17/08
A movie that keeps jumping the gate and finally unravels all over the floor.
07/22/08
Top CriticSets a new record for gross stupidity.
07/23/07
Director Joel Schumacher aims for a psychological depth that the script can't sustain.
11/24/06
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
Walker at least has a solid premise here. Too bad the script didn't find its way to another David Fincher who could understand it.
12/06/05
Want to know what happens when an A-list director and A-list movie star attach themselves to a direct-to-cable screenplay? This.
07/21/05
It's pretty sad that a big star/big budget film about a gritty piece of life that should powerfully effect the viewer at the gut level fails so miserably.
04/09/05
An exploitation movie about an exploitation movie.
08/07/04
Unpleasant.
06/14/04
The repartee between Cage and Phoenix is the high point in the film, which otherwise made me want to go take a long hot shower.
05/20/03
It is good work by Schumacher, but hard to watch nonetheless.
02/08/03
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
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
It has some worthy moments, but it could have been so much more.
09/10/02
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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