| Original Score: D | Sep 7, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2008

Wispy threads of dramatic plausibility and character involvement unravel completely by the time of the incredibly silly final reel.

| Sep 18, 2008

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.

| Apr 27, 2007

Snake Eyes is about multiple perceptions of one major event, their relationship to each other and to the audience.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 23, 2006

The film echoes the technical wizardry and complex plotting of De Palma's best film, Blow Out.

| Feb 9, 2006

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.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 12, 2002

What might have been fascinating after a while becomes frustrating and, finally, a real slog.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 18, 2002

I can't think of another movie that starts so brilliantly and ends so miserably as this one.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

After it has ended, you may want to view it all over again, just to see if you can beat the odds and pick up on what you missed the first time around.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

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.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Although De Palma doesn't always stick rigorously to each separate viewpoint, there's an undeniable finesse in the way he parcels out the exposition in increments...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

The last five to 10 minutes are completely stupid and add nothing to the film.

| Jan 1, 2000

You're never asked to invest much in the characters, and by the time you've roused yourself to care, it's too late.

| Jan 1, 2000

[De Palma's] most flamboyant fantasy of high-flying conspiracy and corruption since Blow Out.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: D | Aug 7, 1998