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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 City detective Ritchie Santoro (his explosive energy and flashy clothes mirror the tone of the film), who finds himself heading a high-.. Read more

Starring Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise, John Heard, Carla Gugino
Director Brian De Palma
Genres Thriller

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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 City detective Ritchie Santoro (his explosive energy and flashy clothes mirror the tone of the film), who finds himself heading a high-level investigation after the U.S. secretary of defense is assassinated at the championship fight he's attending. Ritchie's old pal Naval Commander Kevin Dunne (Gary Sinise) was assigned to guard the secretary and now fears for his career. A mysterious beautiful woman in white (Carla Gugino) has something to do with the case but is lost amid the 14,000 spectators trapped in the sealed-off arena crime scene. Meanwhile, a raging hurricane is tearing up the boardwalk outside, and as Ritchie begins to unravel the mystery through the casino's massive camera security system, he discovers truths he'd just as soon not have known about. Taking place almost entirely within the confines of the arena and casino on a single dark and stormy night, SNAKE EYES zips along merrily, delivering loads of glitzy atmosphere and fun, Hichcock-style suspense. The appropriately Bernard Herrmann-esque music score is by Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Starring Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise, John Heard, Carla Gugino, Stan Shaw, Kevin Dunn, Luis Guzman, Michael Rispoli, David Anthony Higgins
Director Brian De Palma
Studio WALT DISNEY STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 34 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 15.gif
Collections 100 Cops & Robbers
Genres Thriller
Language English
Released DVD: 15 Jun 2006
Production year: 1998
Format DVD

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  • 3 stars out of 5

    The US Secretary of Defence is assassinated in full view of a huge audience gathered in an Atlantic City casino for a boxing championship. Can supercharged detective Nicolas Cage use his own recollections and those of key witnesses to find out whodunnit and unravel an ever-widening conspiracy? Although a stunning visual tour de force by director Brian De Palma (a virtuoso opening sequence, split screens, acrobatic cameras, the replaying of interconnected events from different angles and perspectives), this jigsaw murder mystery lacks suspense and disappoints as a thriller, with the expected slam-bang finale never materialising. Die-hard De Palma fanatics will love it, but others may think it's over-directed and rather pointless.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • "...Snake Eyes sports some of the most breathtaking filmmaking of De Palma's career -- and Nicolas Cage is the one actor who cannot be upstaged by it..." -- 3 out of 4 stars

    • USA Today
    • Posted 11 Mar 2005

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    Rated - 4 stars

    Trashy Pleasure

    A trashy film really, with a slight hint of redemption thrown in. This is one of the Brian De Palma films that kind of doesn't have the epic sweep of the Untouchables, Carlito's Way or Scarface, and it's much more in the order of Body Double, Raising Cain or the all time classic best Travolta film (or at least a close second to Pulp Fiction) Blow Out ('Good Scream').

    The usual De Palma elements are there- conspiracy, overpowering music score, a scene with escalators, big bosomed women and massively long tracking shots (have fun trying to spot the hidden cuts in the first scene). And although it's glossy and shallow I just like this for some reason.

    I didn't get the thing about the ruby in the concrete at the very very end, but if you search google you will find some speculation.

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      • A customer from Pershore
      • Posted 22 Jun 2008 14:26

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    De Palma’s Way

    • 10 Mar 2008

    Brian De Palma is in hot water. Again. For a director who often seems more interested in form than content and who has devoted the bulk of his career to making mainstream entertainment for the Hollywood studios, it's surprising how regularly he upsets people. Even his fans have a love-hate relationship with this prodigiously gifted but perverse and erratic talent. Feminists picketed Dressed to Kill and Cuban refugees weren't flattered by Scarface either. But that's nothing on the US reaction... Read more

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