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8MM

8MM

1999

Joel Schumacher

Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini, Peter Stormare ...

6.3

27,530

Mystery. Thriller. Drama Tom Welles, private eye, is hired by a wealthy widow, whose well-known husband passed away recently. She has found a reel of S8-film in a safe. On the film is a cruel slaughtering of a young girl, who obviously does not pretend or act: A snuff-movie. Welles takes up investigation, which leads him to the girl's mother and from there to Hollywood, into the office of a porn flick producer. Welles' rising obsession to solve the case also ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Derek Elley Variety	"A murky melange of borrowings from far superior pix like 'Seven,' 'Hardcore' and 'The Silence of the Lambs'"	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"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 (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"Given that Schumacher and his cohorts have reasons of their own for wanting to make this film, they may be the only people who end up liking it"	NEG
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"'Eight Millimeter' delves into the perverse underworld of the pornography business, shocking audiences with the realization that sex and violence can be so dull"	NEG
Canada	Michele "Izzy" Galgana Screen Anarchy	"It was a far better film than I was expecting, largely in part from an excellent script from Andrew Kevin Walker"	POS
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"In the uncertain zone between dumb and truly twisted lies '8MM,' a movie that will baffle and disgust you in one disconcerting experience."	NEG
United States	Nathan Rabin AV Club	"That '8MM' fails miserably as a psychological thriller is forgivable. The fact that it is nearly as creepy, sleazy, and manipulative as the pornographic films it so cluelessly and hypocritically condemns is not."	NEG
United Kingdom	John Ferguson Radio Times	"Cage is as charismatic as ever and he's well supported (...) But the film is too strident for its own good and unravels badly at the end (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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