Snake Eyes

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Snake Eyes

R

1998

1h 39m

Mystery & Thriller

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Detective Rick Santoro (Nicolas Cage) has never played by the rules. When he attends a high-profile boxing match with his friend Navy Cmdr. Kevin Dunne (Gary Sinise), as well as Defense Secretary Kirkland (Joel Fabiani), he witnesses a terrorist assassinate Kirkland. Despite a lockdown on the arena, key witness Julia Costello (Carla Gugino) escapes—and Santoro begins to suspect Kirkland's death is part of a much larger conspiracy that involves boxing rivals and a beautiful stranger.

Critics Consensus

Snake Eyes has a number of ingredients that promise a trashy fun time; unfortunately, they're lost in an energetic and stylish thriller with a frustratingly hollow core.

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Todd McCarthy

Variety

09/18/2008

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

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Andrew Sarris

Observer

04/27/2007

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.

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Paul Schrodt

Slant Magazine

09/23/2006

3.5/4

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

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Jose Solís

Common Sense Media

Oct 26

2/5

"Snake Eyes" is so obsessed with unraveling its mystery and the purpose of its characters that it forgets to be entertaining.

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Noah Berlatsky

Splice Today

04/29/2025

The creators approach it with such a gaudily imaginative love of dreck that it’s almost genius.

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Nick Rogers

Midwest Film Journal

01/16/2025

2.5/5

The first half of "Snake Eyes" is catnip for Brian De Palma aficionados until you realize he’s working with one of the flimsiest screenplays he’s ever had, as one of legendary Hollywood screenwriter David Koepp’s rare whiffs breaks the spell.

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Chirag P.

@trini May 10

Solid 90s Nic Cage action/mystery film

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Christian K

@ckacar Mar 2

Hell yea. De Palma cooks here as much as humanly possible in a single location/night thriller.

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Max M.

@Househuntermax Mar 1

I found myself watching this movie trying to find reasons to like it, and not finding any. But if you like noir and de Palma, then you might like this movie. You have to really really like Nicolas Cage to like the movie though.

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Antoway7 G

@Antoway7Gamer Feb 2

this movie literally predicted the future! no cap must 100% watch like bro this movie aged fine wine no way i was told about it on tiktok and instagram reels now this movie is worth to wacth

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G4b3 R.

@G4B3.R Oct 15

One of my favorite nic cage movies

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Rami A

@Bunt101 Oct 4

This is easily one of Brian De Palma's weaker films. Similar to Mission: Impossible, I felt like everything was easy to figure out. That's where I felt like the movie lacked the most.

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Synopsis

Detective Rick Santoro (Nicolas Cage) has never played by the rules. When he attends a high-profile boxing match with his friend Navy Cmdr. Kevin Dunne (Gary Sinise), as well as Defense Secretary Kirkland (Joel Fabiani), he witnesses a terrorist assassinate Kirkland. Despite a lockdown on the arena, key witness Julia Costello (Carla Gugino) escapes—and Santoro begins to suspect Kirkland's death is part of a much larger conspiracy that involves boxing rivals and a beautiful stranger.

Director: Brian De Palma
Producer: Brian De Palma
Screenwriter: Brian De Palma, David Koepp
Distributor: Touchstone Home Video, Buena Vista International [us], Paramount Pictures
Production Co: Touchstone Pictures, Paramount Pictures
Rating: R
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 30, 1998, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 15, 2011
Box Office (Gross USA): $55.6M
Runtime: 1h 39m
Sound Mix: SDDS, DTS, Surround, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: 35mm, Scope (2.35:1)