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Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: [De Palma's] most flamboyant fantasy of high-flying conspiracy and corruption since Blow Out. Read more
Paul Tatara, CNN.com: The last five to 10 minutes are completely stupid and add nothing to the film. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Director Brian De Palma does his stylish best to weave the patchy script into a cinematic quilt, but despite his best efforts -- and they're often formidable -- the thing just doesn't cohere. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Although De Palma doesn't always stick rigorously to each separate viewpoint, there's an undeniable finesse in the way he parcels out the exposition in increments... Read more
David Denby, New York Magazine/Vulture: I can't think of another movie that starts so brilliantly and ends so miserably as this one. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Never loses its bearings as it hovers between preposterous paranoia and a Billy-Wilder-like moral fable about a deeply flawed hero who draws a line in the sand beyond which he cannot go. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: De Palma doesn't know the meaning of the word "subtle" -- every scene in Snake Eyes uses a brash, in-your-face approach that works until the disappointing climax. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It's the worst kind of bad film: the kind that gets you all worked up and then lets you down, instead of just being lousy from the first shot. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: You're never asked to invest much in the characters, and by the time you've roused yourself to care, it's too late. Read more
Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle: What might have been fascinating after a while becomes frustrating and, finally, a real slog. Read more