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Snake
Eyes
1998
98 mins
dir Brian De Palma
stars - Nicholas Cage - Ricky Santoro
Gary Sinise - Commander Kevin Dunne
The
secretary of state or something like that gets assasinated
at a boxing match which means that there are 14,000 witneses
and everyone is a suspect. The Cage is again impressive as
the loud mouth cop determined to solve the crime. (I think
that's four times in a row that I have said that The Cage
has been impresive. I think I will have to write a formal
apology and retraction of any earlier derogatory comments)
The directing is also absolutely brilliant by Brian De Palma.
It all starts in the second or third scene with a massive
shot that lasts about ten minutes and this is when the assasination
takes place and must have took ages to get right but it is
well worth it and there were many other moments in the film
where I thought "that's absolutely smart" what he's done so
look out for them.
The
problem with the film is that there was no big climax at the
end where everything is revealed as is the norm in these sort
of films and where it finally clicks what has gone down. The
sinister twist was revealed far too early for my liking and
this is what stopped it from getting what could have been
an eight or 8.5 out of ten.
