Wispy threads of dramatic plausibility and character involvement unravel completely by the time of the incredibly silly final reel.

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.

Snake Eyes is about multiple perceptions of one major event, their relationship to each other and to the audience.

Die-hard De Palma fanatics will love it, but others may think it's over-directed and rather pointless.