A surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of streetwise Max, Welles relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town private eye. 8MM is a bit way too disturbing at times than it should be but also a bit way too much on the sex and kinky side of things rather than building a well structured thriller with well written characters and a storyline too. (5/10)

I don't understand why this movie in the biography of Nicholas cage is not marked as best. I love that movie. Yes, this film is sometimes too perverse. But... this movie is so realistic. This film, I think, is the best movie in biography of Nicolas cage (after the "City of Angels"). It is very well revealed the talent of the actor. The first time I watched it in 2010 in Russia. Much later than it was published. And this film made me very very touched. I would recommend it again to see.

This is great filmmaking right here. I would not say this is Academy Award winning stuff, but it has a story that never lets you go, and is intriguing and somewhat thought provoking. This movie had me from start to finish, and very very seldom let me go. That is how I know a good movie from a bad one, it makes you forget about everything else and absorbs you.8 Stars!!! Though it probably is a 7 at best, I liked it though!

Greetings from Lithuania."8MM" (1999) is a great thriller. Nicolas Cage stars as a private investigator, hired by an old wealthy woman, who has to find out if the "snuff film" found in her late husbands safe is real.This is a real movie, which feels real, with consequences. It takes you to the dark and dirty side of human nature, and is very gripping. This is a not an action flick or a one man army kinda thriller - this one will leave you haunted. This is one of the very best films from Joel Schumacher, and has a great cast then almost unknowns Joaquin Phoenix as well as James Gandolfini - great job all all involved.Overall, "8MM" is a disturbing thriller. This is a dark tale, which takes it's hero as well as viewer on the edge.