Briand De Palms is one of the master directors of today. And rarely will one of his movies be a total bomb or painfully bad film, although lately they haven't been adding up (*cough*, Black Dahlia) they are still a treat to watch. Adding to one of his lists is the Hitchcockian like thriller "Snake Eyes", it had everything going for it. An over the top yet fun performance by Nicolas Cage, a sneaky and smart screen play, edgy camera work, and a restless atmosphere that echoes thriller classics such as "Psycho". All is going well in this film resembling old mystery classics by putting minimal swearing, sex, drugs and a few scenes of startling violence all going at a steady and smooth pace. At this time a specific character resembles " Twist in the end bad guy" , myself believing that De Palma was doing this intentionally to try to throw some of us off, what happens... the predictable bad guy is the bad guy. But it's OK seeing that all the rest of the film was good but too bad De Palma went with being predictable. In the end greatly stylish, well acted, great atmosphere, well placed camera shots, brisk pace,... Bad ending.
Review of Snake Eyes
