Snake Eyes (1998) on Netflix
Corrupt Atlantic City detective Rick Santoro attends a heavyweight title fight at a casino when gunfire erupts and the Secretary of Defense is hit. Santoro becomes the investigating officer.
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Trailer
Plot summary
A tropical storm is closing on Atlantic City as corrupt police detective Rick Santoro, who dreams of being well connected enough to run for mayor, arrives at a soon-to-close arena for the heavyweight championship between Lincoln Tyler and José Pacifico Ruiz. His oldest friend, Navy Commander Kevin Dunne, is escorting Defense Secretary Charles Kirkland and arena director Gilbert Powell after a trip to Norfolk, Virginia. When Ruiz knocks Tyler out, gunfire erupts: Kirkland is hit and a woman in a white satin suit, Julia Costello, is grazed and flees into the casino. Dunne kills the sniper and orders the arena locked down. Santoro becomes the investigating officer.
Cast
- Adam C. Floresas José Pacifico Ruiz
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Snake Eyes (1998)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Al Pacino turned down the role of Commander Kevin Dunne, after which Will Smith was cast but dropped out over money; Smith made Enemy of the State instead.
- Snake Eyes originally ended with a huge visual-effects tidal wave crashing through the casino; that sequence was scrapped and reshot, though storm references and a drowning line survive in the finished film as leftover clues to it.
- After commentator Charlie Kirk was assassinated in 2025, social media users spread a viral 'predictive programming' theory linking it to the film's fictional killing of Charles Kirkland; fact-checkers debunked it partly by noting the film's assassination is dated to September 19, not September 10 as some claimed.
