Wow! Such a good movie.

SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

A big-city cop from L.A. moves to a small-town police force and immediately finds himself investigating a murder. Using theories rejected by his colleagues, the cop, John Berlin, meets a young blind woman named Helena, who he is attracted to. Meanwhile, a serial killer is on the loose and only John knows it. Jennifer 8 is one of those films that for goes somewhere and does something for a large majority of it's running time, unfortunately once the film reaches it's highest point and we see the killer and the killer goes after Helena the movie lost me completely especially the ending feels rushed and it was probably left in the cutting room. The acting is good and the story as well but the ending was so disappointing and ruined the entire experience for me.

As soon as I began to watch this film on Netflix I could not focus on it, I found myself doing other things and seemed to not be drawn into the film. I got about half way through the film before I realised I did not really know what the film was even about, expect that fact that it involved a blind Uma Thurman and a stiff Andy Garcier in which they are supposedly meant to like each other, although I do not see a very effective connection between the two actors. I feel the actors within the film are B-list featuring Andy Garcier, Uma Thurman, Kathy Baker and John Malkovich.I just felt as though the film was very slow and not very intense at all, with a mellow romance meant to be budding between the two main characters of the detective and the witness. Although, I did not find the film very predictable and even though it was not very tense I still attempted to work out who was the killer, so they did create some motivated for me.

Jennifer 8 is written and directed by Bruce Robinson. It stars Andy Garcia, Uma Thurman, John Malkovich, Lance Henriksen, Kathy Baker and Graham Beckel. Music is by Christopher Young and cinematography by Conrad Hall.The small town of Eureka and John Berlin (Garcia) is the new cop in the precinct. When a severed hand is found at the local dump it leads Berlin to believe a serial killer is at work. One who has a penchant for blind girls.The problems quickly mounted up for Jennifer 8, it flopped big in America and went straight to home format release in the UK. Problems back stage got so bad that Bruce Robinson quit Hollywood and never made another film for 19 years! In spite of these facts, it's not the monstrosity it was originally painted as back on its "limited" release.It's a frustrating film in many ways because it promises so much. There's bags of moody atmospherics wrung out by Conrad Hall's superb photography, where he filters most things via minimal lighting. Much of the play unfolds in ominous surroundings, where dialogue exchanges are either hushed or laced with harried fervour, and the writing is actually quite smart as it blends psycho thriller staples with strong characterisations that are in turn boosted by committed acting performances. Yet these things can't compensate for the too long run time, a rushed ending and some awkward tonal shifts that often take you out of the required mood. The rushed ending is particularly galling, after asking the audience to stay with the pic for two hours, it's not unreasonable to expect a good long and dramatic finale, sadly that's not the case.Fans of neo-noir type visuals have some interest here, as does anyone who likes the type of serial killer movies that dominated the late 80s and early 90s before Fincher's Seven raised the bar. 6/10

In "Jennifer 8" Andy Garcia plays an L.A. detective who goes to a small town to find a women's killer who seemed to return after two years without making new victims. This new investigation will lead to more conclusive clues on discovering that this murderer always female targets who happen to be blind and the only one who can help the police is an blind teacher (Uma Thurman) that might be the next victim.Moving with great thrills and some twists and turns, the film is incredibly good in its drama, in its effective suspense, only losing some credibility towards its conclusion of unbelievable situations and some deranged slowness when it comes to show the questioning of Garcia's character as the main suspect of his partner's murder while solving the case. However, the main problem was that writer and director Bruce Robinson seemed more concerned about making a great opening and a great middle but stumbled with some annoying mistakes towards the conclusive moments that might ruin the experience for the viewer. Example: when the detective is considered suspect of the crimes, he's interrogated, arrested for a brief period, the his bosses decide to release him so he can prove his innocence (?). Then, he's arrested again, after a strange sequence of cuts that don't make any sense after he meets the killer that smacks him down, and all of sudden comes the news that the detective was the criminal, case closed. And on a strange whirlwind of events, he gets the chance of being released (again!) on bail (? #2). It's really unbelievable."Jennifer 8" manages to do some good on us viewers thanks to the great cast involved that besides Garcia and Thurman also has John Malkovich, Kathy Baker, Lance Henriksen (very good here), Graham Beckel, Lenny Van Dohlen, Bob Gunton and Kevin Conway. As for the plot, it was quite a news when of its release, now it's so overdone in films like "Blink" (1994) that it might not impress most audiences. The great thing, really, is to know the killer commits such crimes and not really knowing who he is (if you look carefully you'll get who's the person right away after the first clue given by the teacher). Lots of thrills await you on the horizon even though it's quite a forgettable film and just like its title it gets an 8 with me. 8/10