Jennifer Eight
Jennifer Eight
R | 06 November 1992 (USA)
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John Berlin, a big-city cop from LA moves to a small-town police force and immediately finds himself investigating a murder. Using theories rejected by his colleagues, Berlin meets a young blind woman named Helena, whom he is attracted to. Meanwhile, a serial killer is on the loose—and only John knows it.

Reviews
SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.
Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Asad Almond A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.
Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
Stevan Jovanovic I give this movie a 10, but my real rate is 8. I give 10 because this movie deserves more that his imdb rating have so many people will not watch it because of that. Great actors in one of the greatest thrillers of all time. The atmosphere is absolutely stunning and to the end you have no idea who is the killer. Yes, movie have some bad sides but I think that deserves a "directors cut" that would make things clear for those people who gave a rating lower than 7. Enjoy watching this movie!
SnoopyStyle Police detective John Berlin (Andy Garcia) moves from L.A. to the small town of Eureka. There's a dead body before even he starts his job. A suicide is found in the garbage dump. Freddy Ross (Lance Henriksen) is his partner. Then they find a hand. There was a girl nicknamed Jennifer found a couple of years ago without a head or hands. Mike Blattis is the local reporter. John Taylor is a cop who thinks that Berlin stole his promotion. His boss Citrine is gun-shy after the last debacle. Berlin is staying with Ross and his wife Margie. The excessive scars on the hand leads them to the victim being blind named Amber studying at a local institute. They interview her blind friend Helena (Uma Thurman). Only Berlin believes that there is a serial killer.This is a rather slow murder mystery thriller. I like the mood. Uma Thurman is gorgeous as the blind girl. However 2 hours is simply too long for a simple murder mystery. There aren't enough twists and turns to justify spending so much time. Written and directed by Bruce Robinson, I think another filmmaker would have cut the movie shorter. He's probably more used to movies with much more stuff to squeeze in. There are too many sections where not much happens in the investigation.
Urantia I did not like this movie's dream version of God portraying Him as being a little old man who lives upstairs and then alleges that prayers are like God's unopened junk mail. What a cheap shot by the writer-director to try and ridicule our Creator by using a fiendishly foul insult that embodies the kind of blatantly unjustified accusation one might expect to hear coming from the likes of Lucifer or Caligastia. Perhaps the pathetically sad little creature who penned this small collection of painfully pitiful scribblings of a babbling blasphemer had been praying for a box-office hit and when this flick only grossed a little over half of its $20 million dollar budget, he chose the I AM WHO AM to be the innocent target of his poison arrow of blame. You know, it is generally not a good idea for a planetary mortal, despite having the spiritual potential to be immortal, to pick on some One who is exponentially if not infinitely bigger when viewing things through the undiluted cosmic perspective that transcends time and space let alone unwisely choose the eternally existent Creator of all things and beings to be the intended victim of such a reprehensibly irresponsible word-weapon attack. And the very fact that God didn't hire a robustly verbose lawyer and sue for defamation of character is proof enough for me that He is not like human beings who often forget that we were created in His Image and not the other way around. When God expressed Himself as a Man among men through the mysterious bestowal of Jesus a little over two thousand earth years ago, He demonstrated once and for all that He is a full-time God. He doesn't have a part-time job somewhere else doing something else on nights and weekends not to mention religious holidays. Being a loving and merciful God who is genuinely concerned about His created sons and daughters is a divine choice uninfluenced by any external conditions. Despite the fact that His infinite nature becomes a very real obstacle to being fully understood by less-than-infinite beings such as ourselves should not in the least lessen our faith that opens the door to a deeper understanding that will progressively lead us closer to the indwelling Spirit of God who resides within the minds of all mortals until eventually an up-close-and-personal, face-to-face encounter with our Universal Father will become a past event instead of a future possibility.
David T I really adored this film and have watched it a few times. Such amazing acting from such incredibly diverse actors: Andy Garcia is just perfect as the police sergeant (and incredibly sexy in this role); Uma Thurman plays a blind musician very convincingly and some scenes are truly terrifying; John Malkovich has a stern, unrelenting style that is seemingly perfect for him in this role (St. Anne). It is, really, a love story, set amongst a brutal serial killer's shadow. The dialog is clear and lucid, the photography very fine and often very close to the actor's faces. For Andy Garcia, this is great as he is so damned sexy. If it's a film you've thought about watching but have not, please do so. Terribly underrated.