The film never really gets under the skin of its central character.
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01/01/00
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
Reviews for 8MM
Top CriticThe issues and atmosphere are forgotten in favour of a brash action climax.
01/01/00
Poorly developed, 8mm is anything but a pretty picture.
09/17/08
Top CriticThere'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
Top CriticUnpleasant.
06/14/04
Preposterous, pretentious.
01/01/00
Se 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
As it is, everything is on screen too long, and the problems are magnified.
01/01/00
Overlong, slow, violent, nasty and unredeeming.
01/01/00
8MM doesn't condemn or condone its subject matter, it just exploits it.
01/01/00
Disintegrates into a horribly cliched mess.
01/01/00
A return to form for director Joel Schumacher.
01/01/00
Quite possibly the most revolting studio picture since the execrable 1980 Al Pacino flick Cruising
06/13/02
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
Cage is the film's greatest asset!
01/01/00
The 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.
01/01/00
About as entertaining as an autopsy
01/01/00
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 CriticA movie that keeps jumping the gate and finally unravels all over the floor.
07/22/08
Top CriticIn 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
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