Eight Millimeter
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Movie Reviews of Eight Millimeter
Movie Review: 8MM
Summary: 4 Stars
This it not a film for the squemish i assure you, be forewarned it is dark and disturbing. If you liked Seven or the Silence of the Lambs then you will like this: it's in that vain. I found the story reviting and Cage is very good in this sort of role. It really goes into the underbelly of L.A. and you may want to take a long bath after the journey, it's really unnerving, ive never really seen anything like it. The ending stays with you.Movie Review: Watch wih extreme caution
Summary: 4 Stars
All things considered, very well done film. But due to the subject matter can also be disturbing and very hard to take in. Saying its not for the squeamish would be an understatement.Movie Review: Dark film
Summary: 4 Stars
An interesting choice for Nicolas Cage, but he and Joaquin Phoenix are great in this film. A little disturbing, a great but twisted plot.Movie Review: The critics were right
Summary: 2 Stars
I've seen The Wire series recently, if you wonder where I'm coming from.
Outside of being very one dimensional and boring, the film leaves too many questions without answering.
For example, why could't Cage at least give his wife some HINTS about the kind of case he was involved in?
Or why when he found the diary in the toilet didn't he just hand it to the mother?
Or why, when Cage parked his car in a really rasty area with lots of grubby and suspicious characters nearby, why didn't he lock his car? I'm from that part of California, and I certainly would have.
Or how did Machine know Cage was after him in the house? Cage seemed quiet to me. And where was the mother during all the action? And how did Machine hide in the house so he could restart the record?
The movie depends heavily on characters who are evil without real motive. There may be people like that, but they are quite rare. They aren't rare in cliche hack movies like this one, though.
Movie Review: Disturbing Subject, Routine Treatment
Summary: 1 Stars
There was a good movie here...but this ain't it.
"8mm" could have been a shocking film about one of the darkest aspects of our mass media, but instead it's just a deflated whodunnit almost completely populated with evil, ugly men. Nicolas Cage does so much mugging throughout this film--it's ridiculous that anyone buys his "undercover" routine--that I wondered if his face was sore upon the film's completion. Jim Carey could've played this part.
The underworld in this movie is so repellent and vile that you should probably shower off after watching this. It's so over-the-top that I wondered if this was the "Reefer Madness" of porn films.
There is such a huge gulf between the squeaky-clean family dude (Cage) and the slimy perverts (just about everyone else) that any opportunity for dramatic tension or insight is lost. Sorry, I forgot: Cage smokes cigarettes, so he's not perfect. (A much more interesting take on controversial practices was seen in "Tightrope," a movie where the lead character, played by Clint Eastwood, is so drawn into a series of murders that you wonder if the killer is the hero!)
I think all the good reviews are people intrigued by the premise of the film...but the film doesn't deliver.