8MM
Respected but still waiting for a big break that will improve his professional status, Welles spends most of his time on routine cases involving unfaithful spouses and the like. But some 8mm footage of a young girl being sexually abused and slaughtered stirs his life as he decide to investigate the case...
5 March 1968, Ventura, California, USA
July 10 in Sodus, New York, USA
5 January 1938, Toledo, Ohio, USA
14 August 1937, Malvern, Arkansas, USA
11 April 1929, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
27 October 1929, Chicago, Illinois, USA
12 December 1970, Santa Monica, California, USA
20 May 1974, Portland, Oregon, USA
6 October 1956, San Francisco, California, USA
19 December 1973, Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA
4 November 1975, Detroit, Michigan, USA
27 August 1953, Kumla, Örebro län, Sweden
23 March 1959, Miami, Florida, USA
April 09, 2005
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.
June 14, 2004
Unpleasant.
May 20, 2003
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.
July 23, 2007
Sets a new record for gross stupidity.
January 26, 2006
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.
September 17, 2008
Poorly developed, 8mm is anything but a pretty picture.
July 21, 2005
Want to know what happens when an A-list director and A-list movie star attach themselves to a direct-to-cable screenplay? This.
July 22, 2008
A movie that keeps jumping the gate and finally unravels all over the floor.
December 06, 2005
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.
November 24, 2006
Director Joel Schumacher aims for a psychological depth that the script can't sustain.
August 07, 2004
An exploitation movie about an exploitation movie.
September 17, 2008
I can't say I warmed to the results, but I was solidly held for the film's two hours.
