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Roll a couple dice, get a pair of ones, and what do you get, snake eyes, or crap, cause you lose. That's what I'm reviewing, Snake Eyes. Hello again, I am Mike Stevens, here with your Out & About movie review of Nicholas Cage and Gary Sinese in the suspense slash, action slash, thriller Snake Eyes. Snake Eyes is set in Atlantic City at a Casino Hotel with a boxing arena, where the secretary of defense is attending a fight, and where he is assassinated. This is when the suspense and action begins. You see Cage plays a Atlantic City cop who makes it his mission to find the killers and in the process get the fame he needs to move on up to mayor. One problem, he is a corrupt cop who finds out who the killers are and becomes torn between loyalty and work. Gary Sinese plays a navy security dude in charge of protecting the Secretary of Defense, oops. But what we find out is that Sinese's loyalties lie elsewhere. And in the middle of this we find Carla Cugino, the girl in white who everyone is out to get, and who Cage is falling for, despite the fact that he already is married, oh and he has several girlfriends on the side. Cage starts his investigation off by questioning the losing fighter Lincoln Tyler, played by Stan Shaw, who was knocked out by a phantom punch. From him he starts to put the pieces together and figure out the conspiracy. Then when he catches up with the girl in white he gets, as Paul Harvey would say, the rest of the story. The question then becomes will Cage turn the other cheek and take a payoff , or will he redeem his character and become the hero. I'll let you find out. Snake Eyes, directed by Brian DePalma, is rated R and can be rather graphic in parts, and the language is a bit strong. The acting is good, especially Cage, but the story just isn't believable. Parts of the film just don't seem plausible. In fact in one scene the girl in white is in a bathroom all by herself. OK I don't think so. This bathroom is in a building where 15,000 people are being detained for questioning, and what no other women has to take a leak? Plus when the movie is played out from different perspectives some of the timing doesn't fit. So all in all the acting is fine, the plot is suspenseful, there's plenty of action and intrigue, but the story just isn't believable and therefore it's not that great a movie. Not the worse movie I've seen, and frankly it's not the worse by far. So for the Out & About movie review rating I give Snake Eyes four couches out of the usual ten, one less than The Negotiator. My recommendation would be to catch Saving Private Ryan, or if you have someone under 12 with you, then watch Everafter with Drew Barrymore. That's it for me, Mike Stevens, for the Out & About movie review of Snake Eyes, now back to your host. Last updated: Thursday, March 20, 2008 02:45:14 AM |