I don't think that there's anything in this film that really doesn't work.
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09/10/02
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
Snake Eyes opens on a roll, but ultimately craps out.
09/03/02
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
What might have been fascinating after a while becomes frustrating and, finally, a real slog.
06/18/02
Top CriticAn intelligent and modestly-scaled thriller which, if it doesn't quite recall the classic Hollywood days of yore, it comes desperately close.
06/05/02
Trabalhando com um cenário relativamente limitado, De Palma constrói uma história envolvente e ágil.
05/31/02
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03/24/02
Snake Eyes is a technical tour de force, sadly lacking in one important element - surprise and tension.
06/14/01
De Palma makes the mistake of revealing the mastermind behind an assassination conspiracy before the movie is half over, thus leaving himself with nothing to work with.
02/27/01
Starts on a roll, but finally craps out.
01/01/01
The truth is that De Palma is less a persuasive artist than he is a simple and vulgar bully.
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
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
Mediocre, but watchable.
01/01/00
Snake Eyes so quickly disintegrates into formula, and the characters into caricatures, that it completely loses steam by the halfway mark.
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 CriticAfter the premise settles in the dust just as it should, the movie crumbles into one big mess where the characters spurt out some incredibly dumb dialogue and act like they are in some sort of Spice Girls music video.
01/01/00
The second half of the film plays out a weak-kneed chase yarn that's staged and structured so halfheartedly you wonder why the filmmakers bothered at all.
01/01/00
The picture is a small-scale symphony of kinetic camera movements, rapid-fire montage sequences, split-screen effects, and long-lasting shots that allow characters and settings to interact more artfully than happens in less-imaginatively filmed movies.
01/01/00
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