Again this is a role that Cage plays amazingly. The film is dark and mysterious about snuff films but is well directed and builds the suspense well.
A must watch film!

This is a very dark shocking movie but it's brilliant to watch. This is Nicholas Cage's best movie, playing a peaceful family man till he do a dangerous risky job finding out about a young teenager girl get killed by underground bloody snuff movie.
Not a movie you watch with your family but best when watching it with a mate or maybe a girlfriend. Really good but very rough to follow.

Joel Schumacher became a star for me after his urban thriller masterpiece, Falling Down, and although this does not quite reach those heights, it comes mightily close. I couldn't care less frankly about all the critics who came down on it, they wouldn't know a decent film if it smacked them in the face, but 8MM was a truly powerful and thought provoking piece in its own right.
Exploring the dark side of the sex industry and with brilliant performances to match, it was moving, gripping and very sad most of the time. It was bound to be. Films like this do not have happy endings, but neither did Falling Down. Most impressive for me was Nick Cage breaking down in tears at the end after the case is over when seeing his baby daughter in the crib. No macho got em and next case here, he had been to hell and back and you felt it. Also a special mention for Amy Norton, who played the murdered girls' mother, I remembered her too. Most impressive.

'8MM' is not a particularly pleasant movie - indeed any movie incorporating such themes as snuff movies, S&M and pornography is never going to make for family viewing - but 8MM reveals the dark'n'dirty underbelly of filmmaking. Directed by Joel Schumacher (a director who, with his back-catalogue including 'Batman Forever' and 'Batman and Robin' has perhaps provided us with a proportion of the 'dark'n'dirty underbelly of filmmaking himself!) 8MM was widely critisised and reviled coming as it did from the pen of Andrew Kevin Walker the screenwriter behind the sensational 'Se7en' And, whilst never acheiving the grand heights of Fincher's masterpiece, 8MM is suprisingly effective viewing. Joaquin Phoenix adds a splash of colour to the pitch black proceedings as Max California and James Gandolfini and Peter Stormare add suitable menace to their roles as movie 'talent scout' and director respectively. The themes are, perhaps, never fully explored and the film, whilst shocking, is never as gut-wrenchingly powerful as it could have been had a different director (Fincher himself perhaps?) been behind the camera. But regardles, 8MM is far from the disaster many have made it out to be and its subject matter and themes are ones that are sure to stay with you long after the film has finished...

nic cage investigates the disapearence of a young girl who appeared in a 'snuff' movie. the atmosphere is tense through the film,dark in places benefitting the feel you get from watching 'seven'. this is exceptionally shot and can't help but feel a little messed up in places,it does draw you in emotionally and it plays with your mind once you establish that connection. a good film for the senses but not a one you'd watch again in a rush.