A shady police detective finds himself in the middle of a murder conspiracy at an important boxing match in an Atlantic City casino.A shady police detective finds himself in the middle of a murder conspiracy at an important boxing match in an Atlantic City casino.A shady police detective finds himself in the middle of a murder conspiracy at an important boxing match in an Atlantic City casino.
- Awards
- 1 win & 4 nominations
Luis Guzmán
- Cyrus
- (as Luis Guzman)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe opening 20 minute Steadicam sequence is not really one continuous shot - there are numerous hidden edits. At least 12 minutes of the sequence was done in one take.
- Goofs(at around 26 mins) When Santoro is speaking with Lincoln Tyler in his room for the first time, Lincoln says he was head-butted and there are 2 butterfly stitches on his right eye brow. When he sends everyone out of the room you can clearly see that Lincoln now has 3 butterfly stitches on his right eyebrow while talking with Santoro.
- Quotes
Commander Kevin Dunne: How's Angela?
Rick Santoro: Fat, fabulous, fantastic--I love her.
Commander Kevin Dunne: How's the other one--what's her name? Candy?
Rick Santoro: Oh, Monique? Skinny, mean, expensive--I *LOVE* her!
- Crazy creditsThe end credits scroll over a construction site scene (presumably the new casino), closing in tighter and tighter until the final shot is of a bright red jewel embedded in a concrete pillar that the workmen are installing. Most of the time the jewel is hidden under the hand of one of the workers. The ring was worn by the red-haired woman/Navy agent who was part of Commander Kevin Dunn's scheme.
- SoundtracksFiesta Mexicana
Written and Performed by Rick Rhodes (as Rhodes), Chieli Minucci (as Minucci) & Steve Skinner (as Skinner)
Courtesy of Zomba Music Services
Featured review
The Eye That Lies
This is a wonderful experience. Never mind that the acting is poor and the story weak --that was never the point. This film was made because DePalma knows how to make his camera dance and wanted to make a film based on that notion.
A central question in most art concerns the role of the viewer. This dominated easel painting, then was the center of evolution of the novel and now sits at the core of thought about film. Is the viewer an omniscient God, or can the viewer be fooled like a person? Is the viewer a passive observer, or does she `walk' with the participants as an invisible character? So many clever questions.
DePalma thinks the camera is a whole new thing, The camera is a type of character, part narrator, part actor, part god. It can lie, be fooled, search curiously, document, play jokes. So this is a film about the camera's eyes. `Snake' both because the camera can snake around following Cage, going places that Cage cannot, but also `snake' because the camera sees with forked tongue.
So we have one seemingly continuous shot of the key scene, which is played first from Cage's perspective, then the fighter's, the Navy guy, the Girl, then the cop again, and finally the `flying eye.' Along the way, every eye trick DePalma can think of is woven in:
--The girl's glasses are crushed so she sees less than the audience
--The whole mess is about what a satellite sees
--The casino has 1000 cameras which our own eyes coopt
--The thing is framed by the TV eye
--God-like, we scan over several hotel rooms while Cage and Sinese are stuck in the hallway maze
--Splitscreen simultaneity
--The whole thing is in real time, as if you were living in the action
This is masterfully intellectual. See it. Forget the story.
A central question in most art concerns the role of the viewer. This dominated easel painting, then was the center of evolution of the novel and now sits at the core of thought about film. Is the viewer an omniscient God, or can the viewer be fooled like a person? Is the viewer a passive observer, or does she `walk' with the participants as an invisible character? So many clever questions.
DePalma thinks the camera is a whole new thing, The camera is a type of character, part narrator, part actor, part god. It can lie, be fooled, search curiously, document, play jokes. So this is a film about the camera's eyes. `Snake' both because the camera can snake around following Cage, going places that Cage cannot, but also `snake' because the camera sees with forked tongue.
So we have one seemingly continuous shot of the key scene, which is played first from Cage's perspective, then the fighter's, the Navy guy, the Girl, then the cop again, and finally the `flying eye.' Along the way, every eye trick DePalma can think of is woven in:
--The girl's glasses are crushed so she sees less than the audience
--The whole mess is about what a satellite sees
--The casino has 1000 cameras which our own eyes coopt
--The thing is framed by the TV eye
--God-like, we scan over several hotel rooms while Cage and Sinese are stuck in the hallway maze
--Splitscreen simultaneity
--The whole thing is in real time, as if you were living in the action
This is masterfully intellectual. See it. Forget the story.
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- tedg
- Nov 14, 2000
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Box office
- Budget
- $73,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $55,591,409
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $16,310,373
- Aug 9, 1998
- Gross worldwide
- $103,891,409
- Runtime1 hour 38 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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