Fluentiama
Perfect cast and a good story
ChanBot
i must have seen a different film!!
Allison Davies
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
adonis98-743-186503
A big-city cop from L.A. moves to a small-town police force and immediately finds himself investigating a murder. Using theories rejected by his colleagues, the cop, John Berlin, meets a young blind woman named Helena, who he is attracted to. Meanwhile, a serial killer is on the loose and only John knows it. Jennifer 8 is one of those films that for goes somewhere and does something for a large majority of it's running time, unfortunately once the film reaches it's highest point and we see the killer and the killer goes after Helena the movie lost me completely especially the ending feels rushed and it was probably left in the cutting room. The acting is good and the story as well but the ending was so disappointing and ruined the entire experience for me.
caitlinbiwer
As soon as I began to watch this film on Netflix I could not focus on it, I found myself doing other things and seemed to not be drawn into the film. I got about half way through the film before I realised I did not really know what the film was even about, expect that fact that it involved a blind Uma Thurman and a stiff Andy Garcier in which they are supposedly meant to like each other, although I do not see a very effective connection between the two actors. I feel the actors within the film are B-list featuring Andy Garcier, Uma Thurman, Kathy Baker and John Malkovich.I just felt as though the film was very slow and not very intense at all, with a mellow romance meant to be budding between the two main characters of the detective and the witness. Although, I did not find the film very predictable and even though it was not very tense I still attempted to work out who was the killer, so they did create some motivated for me.
SnoopyStyle
Police detective John Berlin (Andy Garcia) moves from L.A. to the small town of Eureka. There's a dead body before even he starts his job. A suicide is found in the garbage dump. Freddy Ross (Lance Henriksen) is his partner. Then they find a hand. There was a girl nicknamed Jennifer found a couple of years ago without a head or hands. Mike Blattis is the local reporter. John Taylor is a cop who thinks that Berlin stole his promotion. His boss Citrine is gun-shy after the last debacle. Berlin is staying with Ross and his wife Margie. The excessive scars on the hand leads them to the victim being blind named Amber studying at a local institute. They interview her blind friend Helena (Uma Thurman). Only Berlin believes that there is a serial killer.This is a rather slow murder mystery thriller. I like the mood. Uma Thurman is gorgeous as the blind girl. However 2 hours is simply too long for a simple murder mystery. There aren't enough twists and turns to justify spending so much time. Written and directed by Bruce Robinson, I think another filmmaker would have cut the movie shorter. He's probably more used to movies with much more stuff to squeeze in. There are too many sections where not much happens in the investigation.
Urantia
I did not like this movie's dream version of God portraying Him as being a little old man who lives upstairs and then alleges that prayers are like God's unopened junk mail. What a cheap shot by the writer-director to try and ridicule our Creator by using a fiendishly foul insult that embodies the kind of blatantly unjustified accusation one might expect to hear coming from the likes of Lucifer or Caligastia. Perhaps the pathetically sad little creature who penned this small collection of painfully pitiful scribblings of a babbling blasphemer had been praying for a box-office hit and when this flick only grossed a little over half of its $20 million dollar budget, he chose the I AM WHO AM to be the innocent target of his poison arrow of blame. You know, it is generally not a good idea for a planetary mortal, despite having the spiritual potential to be immortal, to pick on some One who is exponentially if not infinitely bigger when viewing things through the undiluted cosmic perspective that transcends time and space let alone unwisely choose the eternally existent Creator of all things and beings to be the intended victim of such a reprehensibly irresponsible word-weapon attack. And the very fact that God didn't hire a robustly verbose lawyer and sue for defamation of character is proof enough for me that He is not like human beings who often forget that we were created in His Image and not the other way around. When God expressed Himself as a Man among men through the mysterious bestowal of Jesus a little over two thousand earth years ago, He demonstrated once and for all that He is a full-time God. He doesn't have a part-time job somewhere else doing something else on nights and weekends not to mention religious holidays. Being a loving and merciful God who is genuinely concerned about His created sons and daughters is a divine choice uninfluenced by any external conditions. Despite the fact that His infinite nature becomes a very real obstacle to being fully understood by less-than-infinite beings such as ourselves should not in the least lessen our faith that opens the door to a deeper understanding that will progressively lead us closer to the indwelling Spirit of God who resides within the minds of all mortals until eventually an up-close-and-personal, face-to-face encounter with our Universal Father will become a past event instead of a future possibility.
