Snake Eyes
Starring:Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise, John Heard, Carla Gugino, Stan Shaw, Kevin Dunn, Michael Rispoli, Joel Fabiani, Luis Guzmán, David Anthony Higgins, Mike Starr, Tamara Tunie, Chip Zien, Michaella Bassey, Paul Joseph Bernardo, Jernard Burks, Mark Camacho, Desmond Campbell, Jean-Paul Chartrand, Chip Chuipka
Director: Brian De Palma
Studio: Paramount
Product Type: DVD
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Brian De Palma's 1998 thriller is largely an exercise in airing out his orchestral, oversized visual style (think of his Blowout, Body Double, or Raising Cain) for the heck of it. The far-fetched story features Nicolas Cage as a crooked police detective attending a championship boxing match at which the Secretary of Defense is assassinated. The unfortunate Secretary's right-hand man (Gary Sinise) happens to be Cage's old friend, a fact that complicates the cop's efforts to reconstruct the crime from conflicting accounts--a directorial strategy bearing similarities to Kurosawa's Rashomon. The outrageousness of the scenario essentially gives De Palma permission to construct a baroque cathedral of spectacular camera stunts, which (he well knows) are inevitably more interesting than the hoary conspiracy plot. (The opening scene alone, which runs on for a number of minutes and consists of one, unbroken shot that moves in from the street, following Cage up and down stairs, and in and out of rooms until finally ending ringside at the match, is breathtaking.) The shifting points of view--based on the contradictory statements of witnesses--also give De Palma license to get creative with camera angles and scene rearrangements. The script bogs down in the third act, but De Palma is just revving up for a big, operatic finish that is absolutely gratuitous but undeniably impressive. Yes, it's style over substance in Snake Eyes, but what style we're talking about.--Tom Keogh
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- DePalma's Sinister Noirish Conspiracy Thriller!
- fight night....
- Cage and De Palma carry thriller almost all the way to the end
- Snake Eyes
- The Snake Is In-----!!!!!!
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Release Date: 1999-02-16 |
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Brian De Palma's 1998 thriller is largely an exercise in airing out his orchestral, oversized visual style (think of his Blowout, Body Double, or Raising Cain) for the heck of it. The far-fetched story features Nicolas Cage as a crooked police detective attending a championship boxing match at which the Secretary of Defense is assassinated. The unfortunate Secretary's right-hand man (Gary Sinise) happens to be Cage's old friend, a fact that complicates the cop's efforts to reconstruct the crime from conflicting accounts--a directorial strategy bearing similarities to Kurosawa's Rashomon. The outrageousness of the scenario essentially gives De Palma permission to construct a baroque cathedral of spectacular camera stunts, which (he well knows) are inevitably more interesting than the hoary conspiracy plot. (The opening scene alone, which runs on for a number of minutes and consists of one, unbroken shot that moves in from the street, following Cage up and down stairs, and in and out of rooms until finally ending ringside at the match, is breathtaking.) The shifting points of view--based on the contradictory statements of witnesses--also give De Palma license to get creative with camera angles and scene rearrangements. The script bogs down in the third act, but De Palma is just revving up for a big, operatic finish that is absolutely gratuitous but undeniably impressive. Yes, it's style over substance in Snake Eyes, but what style we're talking about.--Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews:
DePalma's Sinister Noirish Conspiracy Thriller!.......2007-06-15
Brian DePalma wastes no time taking viewers inside his noirish conspiracy thriller set in Atlantic City during a hurricane. His opening shot flows for over 15 minutes, uninterupted, introducing every character you need to know in that short time frame. He interweaves between TV point of view to the actual casino in record breaking time, and in breathtaking fashion.
Nicolas Cage as Rick Santoro is so perfectly cast as an over the top cop on the make, that it's so easy from the very beginning of the film to forget it's only a movie.
Between the very first shot of the politician and his entourage, including two powerful characters in the film played by Gary Sinise as Kevin Dunne (a friend of Rick's), a political figure played by John Heard, the female newscaster, Rick Santoro, a sleazy news reporter (played by Kevin Dunn), a bookie that owes Santoro a dept (played by Louis Guzman), the boxer Lincoln Tyler (played by Stan Shaw), his promoter, and everybody else involved in the 'conspiracy', as well as everything you need to know about the story, whether seen or heard, are all shown to the viewer in that short time span.
After the assasination takes place and all h*ll breaks loose in the casino, we are then taken on a journey of trying to solve the crime in a very Agatha Christie/Karasowa's "Rashomon" style that is utterly breathtaking in every scene, every flasback, and every version of what you see or what you are told. Everyone's story is slightly different, so no one knows who is telling the truth until the end of the film.
And, DePalma employs so many terrific camera angles and devices and tricks, that the film should be kept in a film school vault and studied every year for the next couple of decades.
From a mysterious redheaded woman to a blonde who is revealed to be a brunette with a wig on (played by Carla Gugino), from following a bloody hundred dollar bill to a ruby red ring, DePalma sets us on the coarse, working from a great script by David Koep (who scripted "Mission: Impossibe" and "Carlito's Way"), putting things right before your very eyes, and/or in your ears, just to have you questioning everything and everyone you see on screen.
And, the dark humor/irony is delicious! Especially when Rick recieves a phone call from a show girl, saying she's his lucky number seven right as the assasination takes place.
The slogan "Believe everything except your eyes" was a perfect tag line for this 1998 classic psychological mystery, noirish conspiracy thriller from the Master of Suspense. Because, after the film is over, and you know the way the plot turned out, then go back and view it again, you see that DePalma shows everything you need to see in the first 15 minutes of the film, and it's all right in front of your very eyes!
And, be sure to watch this film all the way until you see the words "The End" pop up to know just how sinister this story really is. Hint: A ruby red ring in stone.?.?.
And, when DePalma returns his camera back outside the arena, and the storm is raging, thus is the build up to a very awesome climatic scene in what is already established as a VERY noirish story/film.
Awesome! I would rate it a LOT higher than just 5 stars if possible.
Brian DePalma really hit a solid homerun for his fans with this classic, exposing just how evil, ugly, and sinister the world of Atlantic City really is.
And, the song at the end of the film By Mercedes Brooks, called "Sin City" is awesome, and the lyrics recap the story of the film.
Definetly the best film Nicolas Cage has EVER been lucky enough to be cast in, and his best performance by far!
Highly recommended! Thank you.
fight night...........2007-04-21
Good movie. Nicholas Cage being one of my favorite actors made it even better. Keep your seats because you don't want to miss anything.
Cage and De Palma carry thriller almost all the way to the end.......2006-09-02
Snake Eyes is a great thriller in so many ways. The story is genuinely interesting. The characters are easy to love or hate. The pacing is fast and keeps you interested. The director puts all of his greatest trademarks into full effect. The only problem with the movie is the ending. No matter how much I love the first hour and 15 minutes of the film, that climactic showdown really hurts the movies overall credibility. However, I try not to judge an entire film based on 15 minutes that I didn't really like, so I am still a huge fan of Snake Eyes.
Snake Eyes' story revolves around Rick Santoro, an Atlantic City police officer who is a corrupt, mean, uncaring individual. We are introduced to Rick at a big boxing match taking place at a casino in Atlantic City during a hurricane no less. The film's opening shot is simply amazing, and it shows why I love Brian De Palma so much as a director. The opening shot is one of his classic "long-takes." It lasts for about 15 minutes with no cuts, and it introduces us to Cage, his friend Kevin (Gary Sinise), and takes us all over the boxing arena. It is simply an amazing shot, and it could only have been done with a great actor like Nicolas Cage, who keeps his character alive, vibrant, and funny throughout the entire shot. Just totally amazing stuff. Anyway, the plot then gets really complicated, as an assassination takes place during the fight, and Cage starts his investigation into the events of the night. This is also why this movie fits De Palma so well. He is the best director that I know of when it comes to telling a single story from multiple, different points of view. The flashbacks in Snake Eyes are very well done, and only help to move the story along quicker, as the viewer gets more and more interested in what actually happened during the fight.
Sure, the ending could have been better, but I refuse to let it ruin the great moments of the film all the way up until that last 15 minutes. Oh, and make sure you fast forward through the credits for the one final shot of the film.
Snake Eyes.......2006-08-10
Brian DePalma's "Snake Eyes" is an original and complicated crime film that requires much attention and patience from the viewer. The movie is only 90 minutes, but occasionally feels longer than that and the final payoff isn't what you'd expect; but, overall, it's not to bad. Nicolas Cage owns the movie, however, as Rick Santoro, a flamboyant detective who's attending a boxing match in Atlantic City when the U.S. Secretary of Defense is gunned down right behind him. Instead of opting for a typical "crime happens, crime is solved" formula, DePalma does the perspective thing. We see the crime and then we see it from several other perspectives; when the pieces click in, the mystery is solved and now it just has to be dealt with. As far as twists and surprises, this movie doesn't have a lot to offer...But it is pretty interesting. Anyway, Santoro (who happens to be a crooked cop) is now head of a murder investigation with 14,000 eyewitnesses; So, the arena the fight is at, is closed down while Santoro searches for the people involved. Among the many suspects are one of the fighters, a mysterious woman in white (Carla Gugino, 'Sin City'), and Santoro's best friend (Gary Sinise); A high ranking officer. Believe me, this is a complicated movie. But, it's also got some very interesting dialogue and a hilariously over-the-top performance by Nicolas Cage. DePalma's directing is as good as it's ever been here (and yes, I know this movie came out in '98). I'd like to say that it's a great and very entertaining film, because it's definitely inventive...But, it's not. It's entertaining, for sure, but there are times where you wish it would just cut to the chase.
GRADE: B+
The Snake Is In-----!!!!!!.......2006-06-30
Let's face it, this is one of those films, that really grabs you. What makes this good entertainment is not just the cast but the way it's directed. The camera work alone is superb---! You can hear the ghost of Alfred Hitchcock nodding his head in approval~!!!!
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Brian De Palma's 1998 thriller is largely an exercise in airing out his orchestral, oversized visual style (think of his Blowout, Body Double, or Raising Cain) for the heck of it. The far-fetched story features Nicolas Cage as a crooked police detective attending a championship boxing match at which the Secretary of Defense is assassinated. The unfortunate Secretary's right-hand man (Gary Sinise) happens to be Cage's old friend, a fact that complicates the cop's efforts to reconstruct the crime from conflicting accounts--a directorial strategy bearing similarities to Kurosawa's Rashomon. The outrageousness of the scenario essentially gives De Palma permission to construct a baroque cathedral of spectacular camera stunts, which (he well knows) are inevitably more interesting than the hoary conspiracy plot. (The opening scene alone, which runs on for a number of minutes and consists of one, unbroken shot that moves in from the street, following Cage up and down stairs, and in and out of rooms until finally ending ringside at the match, is breathtaking.) The shifting points of view--based on the contradictory statements of witnesses--also give De Palma license to get creative with camera angles and scene rearrangements. The script bogs down in the third act, but De Palma is just revving up for a big, operatic finish that is absolutely gratuitous but undeniably impressive. Yes, it's style over substance in Snake Eyes, but what style we're talking about. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews:
DePalma's Sinister Noirish Conspiracy Thriller!.......2007-06-15
Brian DePalma wastes no time taking viewers inside his noirish conspiracy thriller set in Atlantic City during a hurricane. His opening shot flows for over 15 minutes, uninterupted, introducing every character you need to know in that short time frame. He interweaves between TV point of view to the actual casino in record breaking time, and in breathtaking fashion.
Nicolas Cage as Rick Santoro is so perfectly cast as an over the top cop on the make, that it's so easy from the very beginning of the film to forget it's only a movie.
Between the very first shot of the politician and his entourage, including two powerful characters in the film played by Gary Sinise as Kevin Dunne (a friend of Rick's), a political figure played by John Heard, the female newscaster, Rick Santoro, a sleazy news reporter (played by Kevin Dunn), a bookie that owes Santoro a dept (played by Louis Guzman), the boxer Lincoln Tyler (played by Stan Shaw), his promoter, and everybody else involved in the 'conspiracy', as well as everything you need to know about the story, whether seen or heard, are all shown to the viewer in that short time span.
After the assasination takes place and all h*ll breaks loose in the casino, we are then taken on a journey of trying to solve the crime in a very Agatha Christie/Karasowa's "Rashomon" style that is utterly breathtaking in every scene, every flasback, and every version of what you see or what you are told. Everyone's story is slightly different, so no one knows who is telling the truth until the end of the film.
And, DePalma employs so many terrific camera angles and devices and tricks, that the film should be kept in a film school vault and studied every year for the next couple of decades.
From a mysterious redheaded woman to a blonde who is revealed to be a brunette with a wig on (played by Carla Gugino), from following a bloody hundred dollar bill to a ruby red ring, DePalma sets us on the coarse, working from a great script by David Koep (who scripted "Mission: Impossibe" and "Carlito's Way"), putting things right before your very eyes, and/or in your ears, just to have you questioning everything and everyone you see on screen.
And, the dark humor/irony is delicious! Especially when Rick recieves a phone call from a show girl, saying she's his lucky number seven right as the assasination takes place.
The slogan "Believe everything except your eyes" was a perfect tag line for this 1998 classic psychological mystery, noirish conspiracy thriller from the Master of Suspense. Because, after the film is over, and you know the way the plot turned out, then go back and view it again, you see that DePalma shows everything you need to see in the first 15 minutes of the film, and it's all right in front of your very eyes!
And, be sure to watch this film all the way until you see the words "The End" pop up to know just how sinister this story really is. Hint: A ruby red ring in stone.?.?.
And, when DePalma returns his camera back outside the arena, and the storm is raging, thus is the build up to a very awesome climatic scene in what is already established as a VERY noirish story/film.
Awesome! I would rate it a LOT higher than just 5 stars if possible.
Brian DePalma really hit a solid homerun for his fans with this classic, exposing just how evil, ugly, and sinister the world of Atlantic City really is.
And, the song at the end of the film By Mercedes Brooks, called "Sin City" is awesome, and the lyrics recap the story of the film.
Definetly the best film Nicolas Cage has EVER been lucky enough to be cast in, and his best performance by far!
Highly recommended! Thank you.
fight night...........2007-04-21
Good movie. Nicholas Cage being one of my favorite actors made it even better. Keep your seats because you don't want to miss anything.
Cage and De Palma carry thriller almost all the way to the end.......2006-09-02
Snake Eyes is a great thriller in so many ways. The story is genuinely interesting. The characters are easy to love or hate. The pacing is fast and keeps you interested. The director puts all of his greatest trademarks into full effect. The only problem with the movie is the ending. No matter how much I love the first hour and 15 minutes of the film, that climactic showdown really hurts the movies overall credibility. However, I try not to judge an entire film based on 15 minutes that I didn't really like, so I am still a huge fan of Snake Eyes.
Snake Eyes' story revolves around Rick Santoro, an Atlantic City police officer who is a corrupt, mean, uncaring individual. We are introduced to Rick at a big boxing match taking place at a casino in Atlantic City during a hurricane no less. The film's opening shot is simply amazing, and it shows why I love Brian De Palma so much as a director. The opening shot is one of his classic "long-takes." It lasts for about 15 minutes with no cuts, and it introduces us to Cage, his friend Kevin (Gary Sinise), and takes us all over the boxing arena. It is simply an amazing shot, and it could only have been done with a great actor like Nicolas Cage, who keeps his character alive, vibrant, and funny throughout the entire shot. Just totally amazing stuff. Anyway, the plot then gets really complicated, as an assassination takes place during the fight, and Cage starts his investigation into the events of the night. This is also why this movie fits De Palma so well. He is the best director that I know of when it comes to telling a single story from multiple, different points of view. The flashbacks in Snake Eyes are very well done, and only help to move the story along quicker, as the viewer gets more and more interested in what actually happened during the fight.
Sure, the ending could have been better, but I refuse to let it ruin the great moments of the film all the way up until that last 15 minutes. Oh, and make sure you fast forward through the credits for the one final shot of the film.
Snake Eyes.......2006-08-10
Brian DePalma's "Snake Eyes" is an original and complicated crime film that requires much attention and patience from the viewer. The movie is only 90 minutes, but occasionally feels longer than that and the final payoff isn't what you'd expect; but, overall, it's not to bad. Nicolas Cage owns the movie, however, as Rick Santoro, a flamboyant detective who's attending a boxing match in Atlantic City when the U.S. Secretary of Defense is gunned down right behind him. Instead of opting for a typical "crime happens, crime is solved" formula, DePalma does the perspective thing. We see the crime and then we see it from several other perspectives; when the pieces click in, the mystery is solved and now it just has to be dealt with. As far as twists and surprises, this movie doesn't have a lot to offer...But it is pretty interesting. Anyway, Santoro (who happens to be a crooked cop) is now head of a murder investigation with 14,000 eyewitnesses; So, the arena the fight is at, is closed down while Santoro searches for the people involved. Among the many suspects are one of the fighters, a mysterious woman in white (Carla Gugino, 'Sin City'), and Santoro's best friend (Gary Sinise); A high ranking officer. Believe me, this is a complicated movie. But, it's also got some very interesting dialogue and a hilariously over-the-top performance by Nicolas Cage. DePalma's directing is as good as it's ever been here (and yes, I know this movie came out in '98). I'd like to say that it's a great and very entertaining film, because it's definitely inventive...But, it's not. It's entertaining, for sure, but there are times where you wish it would just cut to the chase.
GRADE: B+
The Snake Is In-----!!!!!!.......2006-06-30
Let's face it, this is one of those films, that really grabs you. What makes this good entertainment is not just the cast but the way it's directed. The camera work alone is superb---! You can hear the ghost of Alfred Hitchcock nodding his head in approval~!!!!
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- DePalma's Sinister Noirish Conspiracy Thriller!
- fight night....
- Cage and De Palma carry thriller almost all the way to the end
- Snake Eyes
- The Snake Is In-----!!!!!!
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- Leaving Las Vegas
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Brian De Palma's 1998 thriller is largely an exercise in airing out his orchestral, oversized visual style (think of his Blowout, Body Double, or Raising Cain) for the heck of it. The far-fetched story features Nicolas Cage as a crooked police detective attending a championship boxing match at which the Secretary of Defense is assassinated. The unfortunate Secretary's right-hand man (Gary Sinise) happens to be Cage's old friend, a fact that complicates the cop's efforts to reconstruct the crime from conflicting accounts--a directorial strategy bearing similarities to Kurosawa's Rashomon. The outrageousness of the scenario essentially gives De Palma permission to construct a baroque cathedral of spectacular camera stunts, which (he well knows) are inevitably more interesting than the hoary conspiracy plot. (The opening scene alone, which runs on for a number of minutes and consists of one, unbroken shot that moves in from the street, following Cage up and down stairs, and in and out of rooms until finally ending ringside at the match, is breathtaking.) The shifting points of view--based on the contradictory statements of witnesses--also give De Palma license to get creative with camera angles and scene rearrangements. The script bogs down in the third act, but De Palma is just revving up for a big, operatic finish that is absolutely gratuitous but undeniably impressive. Yes, it's style over substance in Snake Eyes, but what style we're talking about. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews:
DePalma's Sinister Noirish Conspiracy Thriller!.......2007-06-15
Brian DePalma wastes no time taking viewers inside his noirish conspiracy thriller set in Atlantic City during a hurricane. His opening shot flows for over 15 minutes, uninterupted, introducing every character you need to know in that short time frame. He interweaves between TV point of view to the actual casino in record breaking time, and in breathtaking fashion.
Nicolas Cage as Rick Santoro is so perfectly cast as an over the top cop on the make, that it's so easy from the very beginning of the film to forget it's only a movie.
Between the very first shot of the politician and his entourage, including two powerful characters in the film played by Gary Sinise as Kevin Dunne (a friend of Rick's), a political figure played by John Heard, the female newscaster, Rick Santoro, a sleazy news reporter (played by Kevin Dunn), a bookie that owes Santoro a dept (played by Louis Guzman), the boxer Lincoln Tyler (played by Stan Shaw), his promoter, and everybody else involved in the 'conspiracy', as well as everything you need to know about the story, whether seen or heard, are all shown to the viewer in that short time span.
After the assasination takes place and all h*ll breaks loose in the casino, we are then taken on a journey of trying to solve the crime in a very Agatha Christie/Karasowa's "Rashomon" style that is utterly breathtaking in every scene, every flasback, and every version of what you see or what you are told. Everyone's story is slightly different, so no one knows who is telling the truth until the end of the film.
And, DePalma employs so many terrific camera angles and devices and tricks, that the film should be kept in a film school vault and studied every year for the next couple of decades.
From a mysterious redheaded woman to a blonde who is revealed to be a brunette with a wig on (played by Carla Gugino), from following a bloody hundred dollar bill to a ruby red ring, DePalma sets us on the coarse, working from a great script by David Koep (who scripted "Mission: Impossibe" and "Carlito's Way"), putting things right before your very eyes, and/or in your ears, just to have you questioning everything and everyone you see on screen.
And, the dark humor/irony is delicious! Especially when Rick recieves a phone call from a show girl, saying she's his lucky number seven right as the assasination takes place.
The slogan "Believe everything except your eyes" was a perfect tag line for this 1998 classic psychological mystery, noirish conspiracy thriller from the Master of Suspense. Because, after the film is over, and you know the way the plot turned out, then go back and view it again, you see that DePalma shows everything you need to see in the first 15 minutes of the film, and it's all right in front of your very eyes!
And, be sure to watch this film all the way until you see the words "The End" pop up to know just how sinister this story really is. Hint: A ruby red ring in stone.?.?.
And, when DePalma returns his camera back outside the arena, and the storm is raging, thus is the build up to a very awesome climatic scene in what is already established as a VERY noirish story/film.
Awesome! I would rate it a LOT higher than just 5 stars if possible.
Brian DePalma really hit a solid homerun for his fans with this classic, exposing just how evil, ugly, and sinister the world of Atlantic City really is.
And, the song at the end of the film By Mercedes Brooks, called "Sin City" is awesome, and the lyrics recap the story of the film.
Definetly the best film Nicolas Cage has EVER been lucky enough to be cast in, and his best performance by far!
Highly recommended! Thank you.
fight night...........2007-04-21
Good movie. Nicholas Cage being one of my favorite actors made it even better. Keep your seats because you don't want to miss anything.
Cage and De Palma carry thriller almost all the way to the end.......2006-09-02
Snake Eyes is a great thriller in so many ways. The story is genuinely interesting. The characters are easy to love or hate. The pacing is fast and keeps you interested. The director puts all of his greatest trademarks into full effect. The only problem with the movie is the ending. No matter how much I love the first hour and 15 minutes of the film, that climactic showdown really hurts the movies overall credibility. However, I try not to judge an entire film based on 15 minutes that I didn't really like, so I am still a huge fan of Snake Eyes.
Snake Eyes' story revolves around Rick Santoro, an Atlantic City police officer who is a corrupt, mean, uncaring individual. We are introduced to Rick at a big boxing match taking place at a casino in Atlantic City during a hurricane no less. The film's opening shot is simply amazing, and it shows why I love Brian De Palma so much as a director. The opening shot is one of his classic "long-takes." It lasts for about 15 minutes with no cuts, and it introduces us to Cage, his friend Kevin (Gary Sinise), and takes us all over the boxing arena. It is simply an amazing shot, and it could only have been done with a great actor like Nicolas Cage, who keeps his character alive, vibrant, and funny throughout the entire shot. Just totally amazing stuff. Anyway, the plot then gets really complicated, as an assassination takes place during the fight, and Cage starts his investigation into the events of the night. This is also why this movie fits De Palma so well. He is the best director that I know of when it comes to telling a single story from multiple, different points of view. The flashbacks in Snake Eyes are very well done, and only help to move the story along quicker, as the viewer gets more and more interested in what actually happened during the fight.
Sure, the ending could have been better, but I refuse to let it ruin the great moments of the film all the way up until that last 15 minutes. Oh, and make sure you fast forward through the credits for the one final shot of the film.
Snake Eyes.......2006-08-10
Brian DePalma's "Snake Eyes" is an original and complicated crime film that requires much attention and patience from the viewer. The movie is only 90 minutes, but occasionally feels longer than that and the final payoff isn't what you'd expect; but, overall, it's not to bad. Nicolas Cage owns the movie, however, as Rick Santoro, a flamboyant detective who's attending a boxing match in Atlantic City when the U.S. Secretary of Defense is gunned down right behind him. Instead of opting for a typical "crime happens, crime is solved" formula, DePalma does the perspective thing. We see the crime and then we see it from several other perspectives; when the pieces click in, the mystery is solved and now it just has to be dealt with. As far as twists and surprises, this movie doesn't have a lot to offer...But it is pretty interesting. Anyway, Santoro (who happens to be a crooked cop) is now head of a murder investigation with 14,000 eyewitnesses; So, the arena the fight is at, is closed down while Santoro searches for the people involved. Among the many suspects are one of the fighters, a mysterious woman in white (Carla Gugino, 'Sin City'), and Santoro's best friend (Gary Sinise); A high ranking officer. Believe me, this is a complicated movie. But, it's also got some very interesting dialogue and a hilariously over-the-top performance by Nicolas Cage. DePalma's directing is as good as it's ever been here (and yes, I know this movie came out in '98). I'd like to say that it's a great and very entertaining film, because it's definitely inventive...But, it's not. It's entertaining, for sure, but there are times where you wish it would just cut to the chase.
GRADE: B+
The Snake Is In-----!!!!!!.......2006-06-30
Let's face it, this is one of those films, that really grabs you. What makes this good entertainment is not just the cast but the way it's directed. The camera work alone is superb---! You can hear the ghost of Alfred Hitchcock nodding his head in approval~!!!!
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First, Alan Brinkley, professor of history at Columbia University, Frank Rich, columnist for The New York Times, and David Gergen, editor at large of U.S. News and World Report discuss the importance of the Clinton-Lewinsky affair and proceedings to American history, culture, and politics. Finally, director Brian de Palma and actor Gary Sinise discuss their new movie, Snake Eyes, in which a fictional secretary of defense is assassinated.
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Nicolas Cage Triple Feature (Face/Off, Snake Eyes, Bringing Out the Dead)
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Brian De Palma's 1998 thriller is largely an exercise in airing out his orchestral, oversized visual style (think of his Blowout, Body Double, or Raising Cain) for the heck of it. The far-fetched story features Nicolas Cage as a crooked police detective attending a championship boxing match at which the Secretary of Defense is assassinated. The unfortunate Secretary's right-hand man (Gary Sinise) happens to be Cage's old friend, a fact that complicates the cop's efforts to reconstruct the crime from conflicting accounts--a directorial strategy bearing similarities to Kurosawa's Rashomon. The outrageousness of the scenario essentially gives De Palma permission to construct a baroque cathedral of spectacular camera stunts, which (he well knows) are inevitably more interesting than the hoary conspiracy plot. (The opening scene alone, which runs on for a number of minutes and consists of one, unbroken shot that moves in from the street, following Cage up and down stairs, and in and out of rooms until finally ending ringside at the match, is breathtaking.) The shifting points of view--based on the contradictory statements of witnesses--also give De Palma license to get creative with camera angles and scene rearrangements. The script bogs down in the third act, but De Palma is just revving up for a big, operatic finish that is absolutely gratuitous but undeniably impressive. Yes, it's style over substance in Snake Eyes, but what style we're talking about. --Tom Keogh
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DePalma's Sinister Noirish Conspiracy Thriller!.......2007-06-15
Brian DePalma wastes no time taking viewers inside his noirish conspiracy thriller set in Atlantic City during a hurricane. His opening shot flows for over 15 minutes, uninterupted, introducing every character you need to know in that short time frame. He interweaves between TV point of view to the actual casino in record breaking time, and in breathtaking fashion.
Nicolas Cage as Rick Santoro is so perfectly cast as an over the top cop on the make, that it's so easy from the very beginning of the film to forget it's only a movie.
Between the very first shot of the politician and his entourage, including two powerful characters in the film played by Gary Sinise as Kevin Dunne (a friend of Rick's), a political figure played by John Heard, the female newscaster, Rick Santoro, a sleazy news reporter (played by Kevin Dunn), a bookie that owes Santoro a dept (played by Louis Guzman), the boxer Lincoln Tyler (played by Stan Shaw), his promoter, and everybody else involved in the 'conspiracy', as well as everything you need to know about the story, whether seen or heard, are all shown to the viewer in that short time span.
After the assasination takes place and all h*ll breaks loose in the casino, we are then taken on a journey of trying to solve the crime in a very Agatha Christie/Karasowa's "Rashomon" style that is utterly breathtaking in every scene, every flasback, and every version of what you see or what you are told. Everyone's story is slightly different, so no one knows who is telling the truth until the end of the film.
And, DePalma employs so many terrific camera angles and devices and tricks, that the film should be kept in a film school vault and studied every year for the next couple of decades.
From a mysterious redheaded woman to a blonde who is revealed to be a brunette with a wig on (played by Carla Gugino), from following a bloody hundred dollar bill to a ruby red ring, DePalma sets us on the coarse, working from a great script by David Koep (who scripted "Mission: Impossibe" and "Carlito's Way"), putting things right before your very eyes, and/or in your ears, just to have you questioning everything and everyone you see on screen.
And, the dark humor/irony is delicious! Especially when Rick recieves a phone call from a show girl, saying she's his lucky number seven right as the assasination takes place.
The slogan "Believe everything except your eyes" was a perfect tag line for this 1998 classic psychological mystery, noirish conspiracy thriller from the Master of Suspense. Because, after the film is over, and you know the way the plot turned out, then go back and view it again, you see that DePalma shows everything you need to see in the first 15 minutes of the film, and it's all right in front of your very eyes!
And, be sure to watch this film all the way until you see the words "The End" pop up to know just how sinister this story really is. Hint: A ruby red ring in stone.?.?.
And, when DePalma returns his camera back outside the arena, and the storm is raging, thus is the build up to a very awesome climatic scene in what is already established as a VERY noirish story/film.
Awesome! I would rate it a LOT higher than just 5 stars if possible.
Brian DePalma really hit a solid homerun for his fans with this classic, exposing just how evil, ugly, and sinister the world of Atlantic City really is.
And, the song at the end of the film By Mercedes Brooks, called "Sin City" is awesome, and the lyrics recap the story of the film.
Definetly the best film Nicolas Cage has EVER been lucky enough to be cast in, and his best performance by far!
Highly recommended! Thank you.
fight night...........2007-04-21
Good movie. Nicholas Cage being one of my favorite actors made it even better. Keep your seats because you don't want to miss anything.
Cage and De Palma carry thriller almost all the way to the end.......2006-09-02
Snake Eyes is a great thriller in so many ways. The story is genuinely interesting. The characters are easy to love or hate. The pacing is fast and keeps you interested. The director puts all of his greatest trademarks into full effect. The only problem with the movie is the ending. No matter how much I love the first hour and 15 minutes of the film, that climactic showdown really hurts the movies overall credibility. However, I try not to judge an entire film based on 15 minutes that I didn't really like, so I am still a huge fan of Snake Eyes.
Snake Eyes' story revolves around Rick Santoro, an Atlantic City police officer who is a corrupt, mean, uncaring individual. We are introduced to Rick at a big boxing match taking place at a casino in Atlantic City during a hurricane no less. The film's opening shot is simply amazing, and it shows why I love Brian De Palma so much as a director. The opening shot is one of his classic "long-takes." It lasts for about 15 minutes with no cuts, and it introduces us to Cage, his friend Kevin (Gary Sinise), and takes us all over the boxing arena. It is simply an amazing shot, and it could only have been done with a great actor like Nicolas Cage, who keeps his character alive, vibrant, and funny throughout the entire shot. Just totally amazing stuff. Anyway, the plot then gets really complicated, as an assassination takes place during the fight, and Cage starts his investigation into the events of the night. This is also why this movie fits De Palma so well. He is the best director that I know of when it comes to telling a single story from multiple, different points of view. The flashbacks in Snake Eyes are very well done, and only help to move the story along quicker, as the viewer gets more and more interested in what actually happened during the fight.
Sure, the ending could have been better, but I refuse to let it ruin the great moments of the film all the way up until that last 15 minutes. Oh, and make sure you fast forward through the credits for the one final shot of the film.
Snake Eyes.......2006-08-10
Brian DePalma's "Snake Eyes" is an original and complicated crime film that requires much attention and patience from the viewer. The movie is only 90 minutes, but occasionally feels longer than that and the final payoff isn't what you'd expect; but, overall, it's not to bad. Nicolas Cage owns the movie, however, as Rick Santoro, a flamboyant detective who's attending a boxing match in Atlantic City when the U.S. Secretary of Defense is gunned down right behind him. Instead of opting for a typical "crime happens, crime is solved" formula, DePalma does the perspective thing. We see the crime and then we see it from several other perspectives; when the pieces click in, the mystery is solved and now it just has to be dealt with. As far as twists and surprises, this movie doesn't have a lot to offer...But it is pretty interesting. Anyway, Santoro (who happens to be a crooked cop) is now head of a murder investigation with 14,000 eyewitnesses; So, the arena the fight is at, is closed down while Santoro searches for the people involved. Among the many suspects are one of the fighters, a mysterious woman in white (Carla Gugino, 'Sin City'), and Santoro's best friend (Gary Sinise); A high ranking officer. Believe me, this is a complicated movie. But, it's also got some very interesting dialogue and a hilariously over-the-top performance by Nicolas Cage. DePalma's directing is as good as it's ever been here (and yes, I know this movie came out in '98). I'd like to say that it's a great and very entertaining film, because it's definitely inventive...But, it's not. It's entertaining, for sure, but there are times where you wish it would just cut to the chase.
GRADE: B+
The Snake Is In-----!!!!!!.......2006-06-30
Let's face it, this is one of those films, that really grabs you. What makes this good entertainment is not just the cast but the way it's directed. The camera work alone is superb---! You can hear the ghost of Alfred Hitchcock nodding his head in approval~!!!!
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WTF.......2006-11-08
What is region 777 supposed to be; God region? If these are DVD-Rs then they're probably region 0. I no idea what is up with this thing.
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