1998 · thriller · mystery · conspiracy
Snake Eyes
Directed by Brian De Palma1h 38m1998
All bets are off when shady homicide cop Rick Santoro witnesses a murder during a boxing match. Determined to solve the crime, he quickly learns that his search for answers will only uncover yet more questions in an ever-widening web of conspiracy, intrigue, and danger.
Our read: Snake Eyes (1998) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive thriller · mystery · conspiracy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured thriller / mystery, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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