Snake Eyes: Critic Reviews

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  • Stephen Holden New York Times (Top Critic)
    [De Palma's] most flamboyant fantasy of high-flying conspiracy and corruption since Blow Out.
    Full Review » 12 years ago
  • Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)
    25
    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.
    Full Review » 12 years ago
  • Andrew Sarris New York Observer (Top Critic)
    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.
    Full Review » 5 years ago
  • Todd McCarthy Variety (Top Critic)
    Wispy threads of dramatic plausibility and character involvement unravel completely by the time of the incredibly silly final reel.
    Full Review » 4 years ago
  • Rick Groen Globe and Mail (Top Critic)
    63
    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.
    Full Review » 10 years ago
  • Stephanie Zacharek Salon.com (Top Critic)
    You're never asked to invest much in the characters, and by the time you've roused yourself to care, it's too late.
    Full Review » 12 years ago
  • James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)
    63
    De Palma doesn't know the meaning of the word "subtle" -- every scene in Snake Eyes uses a brash, in-your-face approach that works until the disappointing climax.
    Full Review » 12 years ago
  • Rob Nelson City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
    De Palma continues perfecting his brilliant visual style within the most blatantly artificial plot scenarios.
    Full Review » 3 years ago
  • Film4
    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.
    Full Review » 4 years ago
  • Maitland McDonagh TV Guide's Movie Guide
    50
    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.
    Full Review » 4 years ago
  • Paul Schrodt Slant Magazine
    88
    Snake Eyes is about multiple perceptions of one major event, their relationship to each other and to the audience.
    Full Review » 6 years ago
  • Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid
    The first 20 minutes of Snake Eyes are among the most imaginative and energetic minutes of film I've seen in a while.
    Full Review » 6 years ago
  • Derek Adams Time Out
    The film echoes the technical wizardry and complex plotting of De Palma's best film, Blow Out.
    Full Review » 6 years ago
  • Chuck O'Leary Fantastica Daily
    75
    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.
    Full Review » 6 years ago
  • Tom Meek Film Threat
    60
    Unfortunately, the material that De Palma chooses to hang his flair on feels like a paltry version of No Way Out as if penned by Crichton or Grisham.
    Full Review » 6 years ago
  • Robin Clifford Reeling Reviews
    59
    I give De Palma and company credit for not succumbing to the usual bloat we see in big-budget Hollywood films.
    Full Review » 7 years ago
  • Judith Egerton Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)
    38
    The mundane plot of Snake Eyes is disguised with lots of camera razzle-dazzle.
    Full Review » 8 years ago
  • Dragan Antulov rec.arts.movies.reviews
    40
    Promises to be a masterpiece, only to succumb to Hollywood mediocrity -- just like its director.
    Full Review » 8 years ago
  • Eugene Novikov Film Blather
    67
    Instantly forgettable, but good fun while it lasts.
    Full Review » 9 years ago
  • Leonard Schwarz Palo Alto Weekly
    88
    A dazzling piece of entertainment -- a mystery so cleverly constructed you find yourself wanting to see it again before it's over.
    Full Review » 9 years ago
  • John R. McEwen Film Quips Online
    80
    DePalma, a director who chooses his projects carefully, has scored again.
    Full Review » 9 years ago
  • James Rocchi Netflix
    20
    The film that not only made me give up on Brian DePalma -- the man can't make a good movie anymore -- but it also made me doubt the judgement of Nicolas Cage and Gary Sinise.
    Full Review » 10 years ago
  • Margaret A. McGurk Cincinnati Enquirer
    75
    It is a bravura display of acting from Mr. Cage, and equally dazzling work from director Brian De Palma.
    Full Review » 10 years ago
  • Kevin N. Laforest Montreal Film Journal
    88
    I don't think that there's anything in this film that really doesn't work.
    Full Review » 10 years ago
  • Jeffrey Westhoff Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
    50
    Snake Eyes opens on a roll, but ultimately craps out.
    Full Review » 10 years ago
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