Snake Eyes Reviews

When was the last time that Brian De Palma  did release a great movie? Recently, I saw his last directing effort, ‘Passion’, and it was seriously terribly weak. With this in mind, if you look back at his legacy, some of his really average movies seem almost decent nowadays. This movie is a perfect example. Basically, it is not a good movie, that’s for sure, but there was definitely some potential. First of all, there is one hell of an opening. Indeed, it is a composite of several Steadicam shots cleverly edited to make it look like a 20 minutes long continuous shot and it has been rightfully hailed as one of the best openings ever made. Furthermore, even though it seems that Nicolas Cage has decided to completely ruined his career by showing only in some random garbage, back in those days, the guy was one of the most interesting actors at work and he gave here a solid performance. Then, you had this plot…. In fact, at first, it wasn’t really so bad and it could have turned out to be a decent thriller. Unfortunately, slowly, it became pretty obvious that De Palma didn’t care much about the plot at all, it became less and less interesting and, towards the end, the climax was downright completely underwhelming (apparently, the original ending  was in fact supposed to be an action-packed sequence with some massive special effects but it was cancelled in post-production). To conclude, in spite of its flaws, I still think it is worth a look but don’t expect anything really amazing before watching the damned thing.