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Snake Eyes
Movie Stats & Links |
| Starring: |
Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise, Carla Gugino |
| MPAA Rated: |
R
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| Released By: |
Paramount
Pictures
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| Kiddie Movie: |
Nope.
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| Date Movie: |
Bring her along.
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| Gratuitous Sex: |
None really but some underwear shots.
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| Gratuitous
Violence: |
Some gunfire and people getting executed.
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| Action: |
Good chases.
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| Laughs: |
Some one liners.
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| Memorable
Scene: |
The panning of the camera over the hotel rooms
showing the different things that can be happening
right next to each other that the world doesn't
know.
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| Memorable
Quote: |
Kevin to Rick: "I was three feet away from a
known terrorist and I had my eyes buried in a
woman's tits.
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| Directed By: |
Brian DePalma
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| Produced By: |
Brian DePalma
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Snake Eyes
A Movie Review |
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Nicolas Cage as Rick Santoro
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Well that was a nice surprise. I had nothing to do on a
Sunday afternoon, and really wasn't expecting much going
into "Snake Eyes," but what I found was a really good
thriller, which threw the answers right in your face while
still being able to entertain.
The story goes kinda like this: We're at a boxing match
in Atlantic City. Rick Santoro (Nicolas Cage) is an Atlantic
City cop who is sort of corrupt. He likes the spotlight,
likes that everyone knows his name, and likes women.
Commander Kevin Dunn (Gary Sinise) is Rick's friend and head
of security for the Secretary of Defense who is there for
the fight. Some mysterious things start happening as the
fight is going on and all of a sudden the Secretary of
Defense is shot. Mayhem ensues, people start running, and we
find out right away who killed the Secretary. But Rick is
curious, goes to check out some videotape, realizes the
champ threw the fight, and starts asking questions. Quickly
he realizes that there is more involved than just the
Secretary getting shot the movie shifts to accounts by the
key players as to what each of them supposedly saw, or wants
others to think they saw. It now becomes a race to save the
one person, Julia Costello (Carla Gugino) who knows all of
the truth.
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Nicolas Cage as Rick Santoro (left)
and Gary Sinise as Kevin Dunn (right)
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Alright, the story is a little more complicated than that,
but in telling you more I'll be giving away tons of things
that are generally obvious, but you might not figure out
until later in the movie as events unfold. The interesting
thing in this film are the flashbacks to the events
unfolding as the Secretary gets shots as told by Kevin to
Rick, Rick to Kevin, Carla to Kevin, etc. Are they telling
the truth or did the things going on around them maybe cloud
their memory? Only the ending knows.
So the movie is simple and complex, but that's what's
cool about it. You've got Cage putting on a great
performance as a sometimes corrupt cop, but still being a
cop; You've got Sinise diligently working to save his job
and his career; and Gugino is great running scared, not
really able to see because she lost her glasses, and not
knowing who she can really trust. All of that and some great
filmmaking as you would expect from Brian DePalma and "Snake
Eyes" turns into a decent thriller.
We'll keep this review simple and say "Snake Eyes" is
worth the price of a full price ticket. 4 stars out of 5.
That's it for this one, I'm The Dude on the Right!! L8R!! |
