Snake Eyes
Ricky Santoro, who is a police detective, attends a boxing match and got caught on a murder conspiracy. As the investigating officer, Rick soon finds out that the assassination involving his best friend. The conspiracy is shocking and terrified everybody after is is uncovered.
28 August 1956, Cayey, Puerto Rico
13 July 1955, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
7 March 1966, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
17 March 1955, Blue Island, Illinois, USA
24 August 1956, Chicago, Illinois, USA
9 December 1961, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
30 October 1960, Montréal, Québec, Canada
12 April 1964, Montréal, Québec, Canada
11 November 1967, London, England, UK
27 November 1960, Tappan, New York, USA
3 December 1959
1964, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
September 18, 2008
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, there's little of interest here.
April 27, 2007
Never loses its bearings as it hovers between preposterous paranoia and a Billy-Wilder-like moral fable about a deeply flawed hero who draws a line in the sand beyond which he cannot go.
January 01, 2000
It's 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.
September 23, 2006
Snake Eyes is about multiple perceptions of one major event, their relationship to each other and to the audience.
August 21, 2009
De Palma continues perfecting his brilliant visual style within the most blatantly artificial plot scenarios.
September 18, 2008
Wispy threads of dramatic plausibility and character involvement unravel completely by the time of the incredibly silly final reel.
February 09, 2006
The film echoes the technical wizardry and complex plotting of De Palma's best film, Blow Out.
September 18, 2008
Brian De Palma's exercise in flashy paranoia and shallow cynicism comes out of the gate like gangbusters, but falls apart in a flurry of preposterous plotting.
January 24, 2006
A moderately suspenseful thriller that seems somewhat conventional compared to De Palma's earlier envelope-pushing efforts. Intriguing, but the mystery villain is rather obvious from the start.
June 18, 2002
What might have been fascinating after a while becomes frustrating and, finally, a real slog.
May 26, 2006
The first 20 minutes of Snake Eyes are among the most imaginative and energetic minutes of film I've seen in a while.
July 12, 2002
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.
