BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

jeremybarnhart-65726 This is not a review at this time but a clear and unwavering - "DON'T YOU DARE REMAKE THIS FILM" - Sickening to think that this would be touched at all.How dare you.This is not a review at this time but a clear and unwavering - "DON'T YOU DARE REMAKE THIS FILM" - Sickening to think that this would be touched at all.This is not a review at this time but a clear and unwavering - "DON'T YOU DARE REMAKE THIS FILM" - Sickening to think that this would be touched at all.This is not a review at this time but a clear and unwavering - "DON'T YOU DARE REMAKE THIS FILM" - Sickening to think that this would be touched at all.

Parker Lewis After I finished watching 8mm with some friends, one said it's the most disturbing movie he's ever seen. Yes it's violent, but the underlying themes are quite equally disturbing, and the depravity is on display in some of the characters.I can only imagine what the on-set atmosphere was like, but maybe there were some light moments on set. The story is gripping, and you can only imagine the turmoil private detective Tom Welles (Nicolas Cage) who later played an airline pilot in Left Behind in 2014. If the Academy voters had balls, they would have nominated 8mm for Best Picture, and given a nod to Nicolas Cage for his excellent performance in a haunting and harrowing role.

851222 Greetings from Lithuania."8MM" (1999) is a great thriller. Nicolas Cage stars as a private investigator, hired by an old wealthy woman, who has to find out if the "snuff film" found in her late husbands safe is real.This is a real movie, which feels real, with consequences. It takes you to the dark and dirty side of human nature, and is very gripping. This is a not an action flick or a one man army kinda thriller - this one will leave you haunted. This is one of the very best films from Joel Schumacher, and has a great cast then almost unknowns Joaquin Phoenix as well as James Gandolfini - great job all all involved.Overall, "8MM" is a disturbing thriller. This is a dark tale, which takes it's hero as well as viewer on the edge.

NateWatchesCoolMovies Joel Schumacher's 8MM is a stomach churning ride to the dark, depraved side of humanity, and at times is so unnerving and bleak it can be overbearing at times. Its also captivating in its ugliness though. Humans have always had a fascination with dark, intense aspects of our world, and this film knows that good and well, showing you some truly nasty things but leaving the choice to see it through to its conclusion fully up to you. Shumacher, although a diverse guy, isn't known for venturing very far into the scum bucket (even his Batman films were kid friendly garish gumball machines), but there's a first for everything, and he should be proud of the finished product here. Nicolas Cage plays a small time private investigator with a wife (Catherine Keener) and small child. He's summoned by the lawyer (Anthony Heald, eternally smarmy) of an ailing widow. She has found a mysterious 8mm videotape among her deceased husband's possessions. On the tape is what appears to be a harrowing, graphic snuff film in which a young girl is murdered by masked men. She hires him to originate it and confirm its authenticity, launching one of the grimiest, nauseating investigations since Fincher's Sev7n. He's led to porn shops, underground sex dungeons, kinky night clubs and brushes shoulders with all sorts of weirdos and unsavory cretins. The only help he gets is from sex store clerk Max California (Joaquin Phoenix in a very well written role). He comes across the ultimate speazeball porn producer Eddie Pool (James Gandolfini will make you want to rip his throat out and urinate down it), mysterious debonair Dino Velvet (Peter Stormare letting his freak flag fly), and their masked enforcer known only as 'animal'. There's also a cameo from a young Norman Reedus too. It's quite the rabbit hole of deplorable human behaviour he falls down, and soon we see the edges of his soul begin to fray from what he's seen. Cage, when he's not campy, is quite good at showing someone who's mental state begins to tatter based on their experiences, and he goes for it here, making us nervous if he's gone too far to ever return to his family with his soul and sanity in one piece. It's quite the movie, and like I said there's parts of sheer nastiness (I can't watch the scenes with the snuff tape these days I get panic episodes from it), but if you're willing to pay the mental toll to see an unflinching, and very well made thriller with a neat cast, go for it.