Snake Eyes 4K 1998

During a boxing match in Atlantic City, the Secretary of Defense is killed by a sniper's shot. Unwitting witnesses of this gruesome crime are 14000 spectators who came to the boxing match. Among this pile of people is Detective Rick Santoro - a gambler and in general, very far from the ideals of the image of the American police man, without problems “roofing” prostitutes, robbing small hooligans and betting money on the underground sweepstakes. Out of self-interest, he gets involved in the investigation. Thus he not only “cover” his friend Kevin Dana, who was responsible for the security of the minister, but also raise his own popularity. Rick did not take into account only that his own conscience will play a cruel joke with him....

I sincerely love the movies of Brian de Palma, the most fanatical fan of Alfred Hitchcock. Only he can so skillfully weave into the plot of the picture “trademark” cameraman angles, dashingly edited shots that look like filmed in one “span” scenes and the famous plot twist, when the same event is considered from the words of different characters. In “Snake Eyes” Brian turned to the full, presenting to the audience a creation to the highest degree “cinephilic”, filled to the brim with movie quotes and the classic detective scheme, in which the hero who is not clean in hand must make a choice: once again “close his eyes” or, finally, to act according to his conscience.

Nicolas Cage is magnificent in the role of eccentric Santoro, a noisy, dressed like a pimp balaguer that always spit on the law, even though he himself represented it, mired in corruption and lies, but suddenly realized that it is on his decision depends on human life. With longing remember that before Nick still played in the movie, and not just went with the same dull face from movie to movie.

Damn convincing and Sinaise in the role of a failed mission warrior and, moreover, a friend of Santoro.

Among other things, nowhere and never again has Carla Guccino looked so seductive.

In general, despite the fact that the detective intrigue unfolds rather quickly, thanks to the first-class cast and De Palma's level of directing, the movie never gets boring for a second.