A murder mystery set in Atlantic City, Snake Eyes depicts a shady detective, Rick Santoro (Nicolas Cage), who witnesses a political assassination at a boxing match and seeks to find the missing pieces and loopholes to the investigation of the perpetrator and greater conspiracy at large.
A murder mystery set in Atlantic City, Snake Eyes depicts a shady detective, Rick Santoro (Nicolas Cage), who witnesses a political assassination at a boxing match and seeks to find the missing pieces and loopholes to the investigation of the perpetrator and greater conspiracy at large. Beyond the Hitchcock allusions, including a disillusioned individual inadvertently entangled with a murder case, the film is indebted to Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon, which uses a similar dramatic device that centers the narrative around the differing perspectives of the assassination from various characters.