8MM Critic Reviews
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It is a real film. Not a slick exploitation exercise with all the trappings of depravity but none of the consequences.Read the full review
The two m's in 8MM could stand for "messy melodrama." [26 February 1999, Life, p.5E]Read the full review
The result, while not entirely devoid of entertainment value, doesn't work as a whole.Read the full review
The whole movie turns into a violent, pointless, torture-or-be-tortured chase.Read the full review
Schumacher almost invariably breathes more life into his material than he has here. It's a lot easier to tick off the forced, farfetched touches in Eight Millimeter than to count the ones that ring true.Read the full review
The moral contortions of 8MM seem especially bogus, a sadomasochistic peep show booth pretending to be a confessional.Read the full review
A movie that keeps jumping the gate and finally unravels all over the floor.Read the full review
In the uncertain zone between dumb and truly twisted lies 8MM, a movie that will baffle and disgust you in one disconcerting experience.Read the full review
Voyeuristically wallows in the sadistic violence it professes to deplore. What hypocrisy! Read the full review
That 8MM fails miserably as a psychological thriller is forgivable. The fact that it is nearly as creepy, sleazy, and manipulative as the pornographic films it so cluelessly and hypocritically condemns is not.Read the full review
