The film echoes the technical wizardry and complex plotting of De Palma's best film, Blow Out.
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02/09/06
Snake Eyes (1998)
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Reviews Counted:63
Fresh:26
Rotten:37
Average Rating:5.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: From its incredible opening tracking shot to its suspenseful finale, this Brian De Palma thriller maintains a giddy, fever pitch of cinematic style and excitement. Nicolas Cage stars as Atlantic... [More]
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise, John Heard, Carla Gugino
Director: Brian De Palma
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Reviews for Snake Eyes
The first 20 minutes of Snake Eyes are among the most imaginative and energetic minutes of film I've seen in a while.
05/26/06
Promises to be a masterpiece, only to succumb to Hollywood mediocrity -- just like its director.
04/26/04
De Palma doesn't know the meaning of the word "subtle" -- every scene in Snake Eyes uses a brash, in-your-face approach that works until the disappointing climax.
01/01/00
Top CriticI've never seen anything like it. It's not that you look back after the credits roll and realize where the movie went wrong. It happens right before your eyes.
01/01/00
DePalma's overuse of his point of view shots, especially his out-of-focus sequences with his nearsighted damsel in distress, adds nothing to the proceedings.
01/01/00
I give De Palma and company credit for not succumbing to the usual bloat we see in big-budget Hollywood films.
04/09/05
After it has ended, you may want to view it all over again, just to see if you can beat the odds and pick up on what you missed the first time around.
01/01/00
I can't think of another movie that starts so brilliantly and ends so miserably as this one.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe twists are thoroughly predictable, but even if any tension and suspense were generated, it would all be squandered by the film's contrived fizzle of an anticlimax, which is not only disappointing but makes little sense.
01/01/00
It's the worst kind of bad film: the kind that gets you all worked up and then lets you down, instead of just being lousy from the first shot.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe mundane plot of Snake Eyes is disguised with lots of camera razzle-dazzle.
06/28/04
If you were to review Brian De Palma's Snake Eyes in just one word, it would have to be the sound of air being let out of a balloon: Pfffffffft.
01/01/00
Despite other flashes of brilliance, De Palma ends up undermining his film with a drawn-out, mega-melodramatic ending that would seem over the top at the Metropolitan Opera.
01/01/00
What might have been fascinating after a while becomes frustrating and, finally, a real slog.
06/18/02
Top CriticIt's all quite implausible and the mindless, contrived ending is infuriating.
01/01/00
Director Brian De Palma does his stylish best to weave the patchy script into a cinematic quilt, but despite his best efforts -- and they're often formidable -- the thing just doesn't cohere.
07/12/02
Top Critic[De Palma's] most flamboyant fantasy of high-flying conspiracy and corruption since Blow Out.
01/01/00
Top CriticSnake Eyes so quickly disintegrates into formula, and the characters into caricatures, that it completely loses steam by the halfway mark.
01/01/00
The overall framework of the film leaves little to get excited about.
01/01/00
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