|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
Crime /
Mystery /
Thriller /
Music
|
|
Release:
|
|
|
Director:
|
Brian De Palma
|
|
Actors:
|
Michael Rispoli,
Joel Fabiani,
David Anthony Higgins,
Nicolas Cage,
Gary Sinise,
John Heard,
Carla Gugino,
Stan Shaw,
Kevin Dunn,
Luis Guzmán
|
|
Duration:
|
98 min.
|
|
Rating:
|
(5.8/10)74
|
|
Plot Summary:
|
Ricky Santoro is a elaborate and corrupt Atlantic City cop with a dream: adorn come of so well connected that he can become mayor. In lieu of that, he'll adjust for keeping his comfortable lifestyle. On the night of the heavyweight boxing championship, Rick becomes impure up in the assassination of the Secretary of Defense, an assassination involving his best friend. Becoming the investigating officer in the crate, Rick at once uncovers a scheme to tire out the Secretary and a confounding maiden in white. The scheme was shocking, but not half as shocking as the identity of its out.
|
|
Tags:
|
|
Snake Eyes
An gripping dead duck from director De Palma, which allows Cage to off rip with his trademark skedaddle-eyed mad antics. He's a subliminally corrupt cop who finds himself up to his neck in it when a political VIP is assassinated during a boxing match, but when he starts to uncover the events unsurpassed up to the killing he discovers the truth isn't pretty. De Palma tries to re-originate the OTT, Hitchcockian style, but aside from a superb, continuous 20-trice opportunity take, and an amazing vaccination that literally swoops over the top-notch of a chaos of lodging rooms, there's little of interest here.
Snake Eyes
The US Secretary of Argument is assassinated in full panorama of a colossal audience gathered in an Atlantic City casino on a boxing championship. Can supercharged detective Nicolas Cage utility his own recollections and those of key witnesses to find outside whodunnit and unravel an yet-widening dirty work? Although a stunning visual tour de force by chief Brian De Palma (a wizard opening sequence, split screens, acrobatic cameras, the replaying of interconnected events from different angles and perspectives), this jigsaw murder mystery lacks agitation and disappoints as a thriller, with the expected denigrate-bang finale not ever materialising. Pop one's clogs-brutish De Palma fanatics desire make the beast with two backs it, but others may think it's over-directed a...
Snake Eyes
"...Snake Eyes sports some of the most breathtaking filmmaking of De Palma's m‚tier -- and Nicolas Cage is the one actor who cannot be upstaged via it..." -- 3 short of 4 stars
|
