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60I can't say I warmed to the results, but I was solidly held for the film's two hours.
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75It is a real film. Not a slick exploitation exercise with all the trappings of depravity but none of the consequences.
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25A private eye enters a horrific world of degrading sex and bottom-feeding pornographers.
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42The whole movie turns into a violent, pointless, torture-or-be-tortured chase.
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40The biggest thing wrong with this mess is its whole attitude. The film tries to condemn all these shocking things, but if you're not shocked, just wait a couple of minutes and they'll try again.
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0Those foolhardy enough to place themselves at the mercy of 8MM can expect the following emotions: disgust and revulsion, then anger, followed by a profound and disheartening sadness. There are some films whose existence makes the world a worse place to live, and this is one of them.
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10Wallows in its own muck.
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63The result, while not entirely devoid of entertainment value, doesn't work as a whole.
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0Almost as degrading as any unmarked video you can buy in the back alleys of Manila, and, in its pseudo-significance and arty pretension, it's a lot less honest. I'm heartily sorry I had to poison an entire evening with it.
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0Voyeuristically wallows in the sadistic violence it professes to deplore. What hypocrisy!
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This is not a movie for the squeamish, by any means. But for those who like their thrillers dark and their heroes a bit more complicated and flawed than the average shoot-without-a-blink type so prevalent in today's movies, 8MM fills the bill.
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40The moral contortions of 8MM seem especially bogus, a sadomasochistic peep show booth pretending to be a confessional.
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0That 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.
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40Schumacher 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.
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40The superficially cheery “Boogie Nights” is infinitely scarier.
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63The two m's in 8MM could stand for "messy melodrama." [26 February 1999, Life, p.5E]
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30A movie that keeps jumping the gate and finally unravels all over the floor.
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0A nasty piece of work, and it's nasty in a particularly ostentatious and sophomoric way.
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10In the uncertain zone between dumb and truly twisted lies 8MM, a movie that will baffle and disgust you in one disconcerting experience.
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0It's sickeningly violent!