8MM: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 1 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews

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Janet Maslin New York Times (Top Critic)

Joel Schumacher's Eight Millimeter delves into the perverse underworld of the pornography business, shocking audiences with the realization that sex and violence can be so dull.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

In the uncertain zone between dumb and truly twisted.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Jeff Millar Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

Want to know what happens when an A-list director and A-list movie star attach themselves to a direct-to-cable screenplay? This.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Philip Wuntch Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

Eight Millimeter demonstrates the extent that non-challenging roles have stymied Mr. Cage's talent.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Peter Rainer New York Magazine (Top Critic)

An exploitation movie about an exploitation movie.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

When it goes serious, it gets silly.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

I can't say I warmed to the results, but I was solidly held for the film's two hours.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Bob Fenster Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

Has none of the mystery or suspense that helped Seven rise above the filth in which it sought to wallow.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Derek Elley Variety (Top Critic)

A movie that keeps jumping the gate and finally unravels all over the floor.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Tom Keogh Film.com (Top Critic)

There is a plodding, linear development and no semblance of a moral anchor.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Andrew O'Hehir Salon.com (Top Critic)

My advice is get drunk, cook dinner, watch infomercials or do your taxes -- anything to keep those two hours for yourself.
Full Review » 12 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

63

As it is, everything is on screen too long, and the problems are magnified.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Peter Travers Rolling Stone (Top Critic)

Director Joel Schumacher aims for a psychological depth that the script can't sustain.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

20

Given that Schumacher and his cohorts have reasons of their own for wanting to make this film, they may be the only people who end up liking it.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Film4

Poorly developed, 8mm is anything but a pretty picture.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Rob Gonsalves eFilmCritic.com

20

Sets a new record for gross stupidity.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Time Out

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.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Ron Wells Film Threat

40

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.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Robin Clifford Reeling Reviews

17

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.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Dragan Antulov rec.arts.movies.reviews

40

Unpleasant.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Jim Shelby Palo Alto Weekly

63

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.
Full Review » 9 years ago
John R. McEwen Film Quips Online

80

It is good work by Schumacher, but hard to watch nonetheless.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

67

8mm is neither the sick exploitation film nor the risible misfire the critics had prepared us for -- it is a movie of serious intent.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Margaret A. McGurk Cincinnati Enquirer

38

I could not get past the pathology lurking just below the skin of this story -- its false morality, its prurient absorption in sexual violence, its sadistic glee over the hero's degradation.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Kevin N. Laforest Montreal Film Journal

63

It has some worthy moments, but it could have been so much more.
Full Review » 10 years ago