8MM (1999)
Genre: Crime / Thriller
Duration: 123 minuten
Alternative title: Eight Millimeter
Country:
United States / Germany
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix and James Gandolfini
IMDb score:
6,6 (151.911)
Releasedate: 26 February 1999
8MM plot
"You can't prepare for where the truth will take you"
Private detective Tom Welles is hired by a wealthy woman whose husband has recently passed away. She has found a piece of film in a safe showing how a girl is brutally murdered: a snuff movie. Welles investigates and ends up with a porn producer through the girl's mother in Hollywood. Welles slowly becomes obsessed with the case, becoming increasingly estranged from his wife and daughter.
Actors and actresses
Tom Welles
Max California
Eddie Poole
Dino Velvet
Daniel Longdale
George Higgins
Amy Welles
Mrs. Christian
Janet Mathews
Mary Ann Mathews
Reviews & comments
Alathir
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- 2147 messages
- 1648 votes
Strong film with a solid cast. The biggest downside is perhaps some superfluous scenes such as the phone conversations Cage has with his wife, love you, yeah love you too, blablabla 
Otherwise a nice neo noir atmosphere with sometimes quite harsh images. In my opinion, Cage is playing one of the best roles of his life here and also one of his better movies. A must see in this genre.
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Vidi well
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- 553 messages
- 723 votes
A great thriller that sets the mood well, especially in the first part. I was immediately thinking of Seven's slums, or Buffalo Bill's filthy house from Silence of the lambs. Like these 90s thrillers, 8mm is set in the dark underworld of the big city, where most people will never set foot. And for good reasons. The perverted world of violent porn presented to us here is sick, and makes you wonder how people can get to these acts. Nicolas Cage also has these questions but, like the viewer, finds no answers to them. The dingy atmosphere is well portrayed with dark bars and strange characters.
In the second part of the film, the tension decreases a bit. With atmospheres like this, it's always the most creepy when everything remains mysterious. When it becomes clear how everything works, the truth is shocking, but not so exciting anymore. The fact that Cage himself chooses the evil path at the end makes it all a bit over the top. That he would lose his soul was long predicted by his colleague Phoenix and then came not much of a surprise either.
The dramatic scenes with his wife and child add little to the film, and could perhaps have been made stronger to make the contrast between the 'normal' world and the shadowy underworld even greater. Nevertheless, a nasty, but fine film to have seen.
3*
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scorsese
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- 13477 messages
- 11297 votes
Good film in which a private detective is tasked by a wealthy widow to find out if a snuff film is authentic. An entertaining quest into the sleazy underworld of extreme (porn) movies. And this dark world is well portrayed here. Some characters are a bit over the top, but the cast gets away with it.
Translated from Dutch · View originalPre- and sequels
8MM 2
2005
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