Amazon.co.uk: Snake Eyes [1998]: 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, Brian De Palma: Video

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Snake Eyes [1998]
VHS ~ Nicolas Cage

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Product details

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise, John Heard, Carla Gugino, Stan Shaw
Directors: Brian De Palma
Format: Closed-captioned, Dolby, PAL, Surround Sound
Language English
Classification:
Studio: Touchstone Home Video
VHS Release Date: 20 Sep 1999
Run Time: 94 minutes

Average Customer Review:

(5 customer reviews)

ASIN: B00004CYNG
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 22,911 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Amazon.co.uk Review
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 featuresNicolasCage as a crooked police detective attending a championship boxing match at which the Secretary of Defence 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 DePalma 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 licence 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 you're talking about.--Tom Keogh

Synopsis
Atlantic City police detective Rick Santoro is present at a boxing match when a political assassination takes place. Determined to solve the crime quickly his search for answers uncovers a widening web of conspiracy, intrigue and danger...