Rick Santoro

Rick Santoro is the main protagonist of the 1998 action thriller film Snake Eyes.
He was portrayed by Nicolas Cage, who also portrayed Sean Archer in Face/Off, Cameron Poe in Con Air, Stanley Goodspeed in The Rock, Tom Welles in 8mm, Randall Raines in Gone in 60 Seconds, Big Daddy in Kick-Ass, Ben Gates in National Treasure, Ghost Rider in Ghost Rider, and Grug Crood in The Croods.
==Snake Eyes==
Santoro is a flamboyant, rather exaggeratingly energetic Atlantic City who attends a boxing match at Powell Millenium, Atlantic City, between the reigning heavyweight champion Lincoln Tyler and contender Jose Pacifico Ruiz when Secretary of Defense Charles Kirkland, who attended a match with arena owner Gilbert Powell, was assassinated, after Tyler is seemingly knocked out. Kevin's childhood best friend, U.S. Navy Commander Kevin Dunne, is also present during the shootout, being in main charge of Kirkland's security throughout the visit. Dunne immediately guns down Rabat, Kirkland's sniper, and soon the fight is immediately halted. Closing the entire arena for public, Dunne and Santoro start their investigations following the assassination.
After the lockdown, one of AirGuard's analysts, Julia Costello, who happens to be at the scene to report the newfound missile system to Kirkland and got wounded herself by Rabat's bullets, sneaks out into Powell Millenium's casino in order to find safety from possible perpetrators linked to both her job and the killing. Meanwhile, upon suspecting the supposedly false knockout of Tyler's, Santoro learns from Tyler that the latter fight Ruiz to pay gambling debts, but he was never told that anyone would be killed, and reveals that he was paid to take a dive by Serena, a redhead girl who turns out to be the one who earlier tricked Dunne into leaving his ringside post.
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