Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini

A private investigator is hired to discover if a "snuff film" is authentic or not.

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56% liked it

120,715 ratings

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22% liked it

78 critics

R, 123 min.

Directed by: Joel Schumacher

Release Date: February 26, 1999

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DVD Release Date: May 22, 2001

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  • September 29, 2009
    A complete waste of an amazing cast!
  • April 27, 2009
    Very disturbing for a big budget movie.Left me shocked and sick when i watched this for the 1st time when it was release..
  • January 29, 2009
    Way over the top and off the mark shot at another Seven. Schumacher doesn't really know style or substance. Stick to commercials bub.
  • April 20, 2008
    I am not a Nicolas Cage fan by any means. That being said, this was an excellent film that takes Cage from being a sort-of pushover at the start of the film to an almost sadistic madman at the end trying to get to the bottom of a snuff film that has been proven to be real. Typica...( read more)l excellent performances by Phoenix, Stormare and Gandolfini highlight this lengthy (it seems longer than two hours) film about taboo pornography. Schumacher adds one of the best DVD commentaries I've heard as well.
  • March 6, 2008
    Cage at the start of a shitty decline in movies
  • November 16, 2009
    i can't stand nicolas cage
  • November 8, 2009
    Sick film with an even sicker ending.
  • November 1, 2009
    I had to watch this for psychology class
  • October 31, 2009
    scaring and interesting
  • October 22, 2009
    good one for Nicholas Cage..

Critic Reviews


November 24, 2006
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Director Joel Schumacher aims for a psychological depth that the script can't sustain. full review

January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

It is a real film. Not a slick exploitation exercise with all the trappings of depravity but none of the consequences. Not a film where moral issues are forgotten in the excitement of an action climax. full review

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  • browneyedcaligrl
    August 29, 2007
    it was...interesting
    but very very good
    joaquin phoenix played a very good role in this

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