> > > > Schumacher directed 9MM, which I enjoyed slightly... he directed A Time to Kill, which I thought was incredible.
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> > > I didn't see "9MM" for two reasons:
> >
> > My reason was that there is no such movie. (It's "8MM." Ok, now I'm nitpicking. Fine. :-) )
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> Yeah, I realized that when I checked the IMDB (AFTER my post). Doesn't change the fact that I have no desire to see it.

Okay. I wrote a reply to this earlier in the thread, but then deleted it 'cause I re-read the stuff and said "wait - 9mm? *9*mm?" and thought I was thinking of a totally different movie. Anyhow...

The general opinion I have of "8mm" is that it's a very shallow movie that wants us to *think* it's a very deep movie. There is a very black-and-white division between the "good guys" and the "bad guys," and the characters are all fairly flat and one-dimensional, with the exception of the lead (played rather forgettably by Nicholas Cage), who, I think, has a second dimension in there somewhere.

The movie is a whole lot more predictable than it thinks it is, and so a lot of the climactic scenes fall very flat because they're relying on the audience not expecting them.

I could say a bit more, but I don't want to throw out any spoilers... you get the general idea, though. I wasn't that impressed. The moral was very obvious, and can be expressed in the movie's big catchphrase: "you dance with the devil, the devil doesn't change. The devil changes you."