Snake Eyes DVD

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Brian De Palma&s 1998 thriller is largely an exercise in airing out his orchestral oversized visual style (think of his Blowout Body Double or Raising Cain) for the heck of it The far-fetched story features Nicolas Cage as a crooked police detective attending a championship boxing match at which the Secretary of Defence is assassinated The unfortunate Secretary&s right-hand man (Gary Sinise) happens to be Cage&s old friend a fact that complicates the cop&s efforts to reconstruct the crime from conflicting accounts--a directorial strategy bearing similarities to Kurosawa&s Rashomon The outrageousness of the scenario essentially gives De Palma permission to construct a baroque cathedral of spectacular camera stunts which (he well knows) are inevitably more interesting than the hoary conspiracy plot (The opening scene alone which runs on for a number of minutes & consists of one unbroken shot that moves in from the street following Cage up & down stairs & in & out of rooms until finally ending ringside at the match is breathtaking) The shifting points of view--based on the contradictory statements of witnesses--also give De Palma licence to get creative with camera angles & scene rearrangements The script bogs down in the third act but De Palma is just revving up for a big operatic finish that is absolutely gratuitous but undeniably impressive Certificate 15
- Suitable for persons over 15 Year 1999 Duration 1 hour & 35 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players