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Snake Eyes
U/A (INDIA)
1998
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Snake Eyes
Positive Reviews
16
Negative reviews
21
Average Rating
2.5
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1.3
Its 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.
Rogerebert
1.5
Wispy threads of dramatic plausibility and character involvement unravel completely by the time of the incredibly silly final reel.
Variety
4.5
The film echoes the technical wizardry and complex plotting of De Palmas best film, Blow Out.
Time Out
4.4
Snake Eyes is about multiple perceptions of one major event, their relationship to each other and to the audience.
1.5
But whether its the uninspired dialogue or the toned down violence theres barely a drop of blood in the entire film Snake Eyes feels like tame, anonym ..
Screen Daily
4.5
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.
1.3
Someone hands you a line, you just swallow it whole, one character says.
San Francisco Chronicle
1.5
De Palma ruins a terrific premise by making the kind of elementary mistake students make in Film 101.
San Francisco Chronicle
1.5
What we have now, while not totally incomprehensible, doesnt prove the people whose job is capturing clashing katanas, flying kicks, and intimidating ..
The Young Folks
2.5
The overall framework of the film leaves little to get excited about.
JoBlo
3.1
De Palma doesnt know the meaning of the word subtle every scene in Snake Eyes uses a brash, in your face approach that works until the disappointing c ..
ReelViews
4.5
The first 20 minutes of Snake Eyes are among the most imaginative and energetic minutes of film Ive seen in a while.
Combust Ible Celluloid
2.0
I give De Palma and company credit for not succumbing to the usual bloat we see in big budget Hollywood films.
4.4
Its immediately impossible to mistake Snake Eyes for anything than a vintage De Palma thriller...
Reel Film Reviews
3.8
Its not as tight or emotionally compelling as it might have been if David Koepps sketchy screenplay matched the wide eyed conviction of Cages admirabl ..
Cs Monitor
1.5
The second half of the film plays out a weak kneed chase yarn thats staged and structured so halfheartedly you wonder why the filmmakers bothered at a ..
Film Journal International ..
2.5
It doesnt help that Cages performance is so cartoonish, and the fight scenes (choreographed by Raging Bull trainer Jimmy Gambina) are so hokey.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
1.3
The movies outline has some promise, but the movie itself is leaden.
Internet Reviews
3.5
The picture is itself a winner in most respects, flawed only by an overly rambunctious characterization by Nicolas Cage.
Internet Reviews
1.9
DePalmas overuse of his point of view shots, especially his out of focus sequences with his nearsighted damsel in distress, adds nothing to the procee ..
Internet Reviews
2.5
Despite Cage and Sinises failings, the investigation of the murder is very intriguing...for a while.
Internet Reviews
2.0
Its all quite implausible and the mindless, contrived ending is infuriating.
Internet Reviews
1.9
The most aggravating kind of movie: the kind that shows so much potential, then becomes unbelievably disappointing.
Internet Reviews
2.5
Did you ever get the feeling that Brian DePalma designs entire films around set pieces he thinks would be really cool
Internet Reviews
1.5
Snake Eyes is all flash that dazzles through the films first half, enough so that you dont realize theres nothing of substance supporting it until dir ..
2.5
De Palma makes the mistake of revealing the mastermind behind an assassination conspiracy before the movie is half over, thus leaving himself with not ..
Q Network
1.5
Youre never asked to invest much in the characters, and by the time youve roused yourself to care, its too late.
Salon
1.5
It has its share of problems, but remains an intriguing, well crafted thriller with many inventive sequences.
1.5
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Observer
2.5
The twists are thoroughly predictable, but even if any tension and suspense were generated, it would all be squandered by the films contrived fizzle o ..
Mr Brown Movies
1.5
The last five to 10 minutes are completely stupid and add nothing to the film.
Cnn
2.5
Ive never seen anything like it. Its not that you look back after the credits roll and realize where the movie went wrong. It happens right before you ..
Spliced Wire
3.1
At first the script is tight and twisty, but its resolution is a mediocre anticlimax.
Movie Habit
3.0
An intelligent and modestly scaled thriller which, if it doesnt quite recall the classic Hollywood days of yore, it comes desperately close.
Boxoffice Magazine
2.5
Brian De Palmas exercise in flashy paranoia and shallow cynicism comes out of the gate like gangbusters, but falls apart in a flurry of preposterous p ..
Movies Tv Guide
4.4
I dont think that theres anything in this film that really doesnt work.
Montreal Film Journal
4.0
Things dont fit together quite as neatly as they could, and should, but this doesnt take away from the films qualities in the first two thirds.
Film Quips Online
1.5
Aside from a sensational, continuous 20 minute opening take, and an amazing shot that literally swoops over the top of a row of hotel rooms, theres li ..
Film4
3.0
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 ..
Rochester Goes Out
2.5
It isnt until one unlikely lead at the end unfolds the ultimate plot, which is so incredibly disappointing that we are often confronted with the urge ..
Cinema Phile
1.0
The film that not only made me give up on Brian DePalma the man cant make a good movie anymore but it also made me doubt the judgement of Nicolas Cage ..
Net Flix
3.1
Director Brian De Palma does his stylish best to weave the patchy script into a cinematic quilt, but despite his best efforts and theyre often formida ..
Globe and Mail
3.0
If you were to review Brian De Palmas Snake Eyes in just one word, it would have to be the sound of air being let out of a balloon: Pfffffffft.
Deep Focus
3.8
It is a bravura display of acting from Mr. Cage, and equally dazzling work from director Brian De Palma.
1.9
The mundane plot of Snake Eyes is disguised with lots of camera razzle dazzle.
Courier-Journal (Louisvill ..
2.5
I cant accurately cite the problem without spoiling a few plot points, so if you dont want to know, skip the next paragraph.
Angel Fire
1.5
De Palma continues perfecting his brilliant visual style within the most blatantly artificial plot scenarios.
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