Plot Points in the 1998 flick "Snake Eyes" foreshadow some key 2025 Kirkgate plot points

Sep 24, 2025

Alrighty, we sure are into full on flood the zone Cool Ranch Kirkitos but here we are.

I do not especially find this comparison apt, but it is making the rounds so here is a cursory Smashburger investigation.

The following is a trailer for a flick called Snake Eyes, 1998.

On the night of a tropical storm, corrupt and flamboyant Atlantic City police detective Rick Santoro attends a boxing match at the soon-to-close local arena between heavyweight champion Lincoln Tyler and challenger Jose Pacifico Ruiz. He meets up with his best friend since childhood, U.S. Navy Commander Kevin Dunne, who is working with the Department of Defense to escort Defense Secretary Charles Kirkland and Arena director Gilbert Powell at the fight after a trip to Norfolk, Virginia.

The fight-assassination occurs on September 10.

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It consists of a boxer known as Executioner (Lincoln) Tyler.

Of course Abe Lincoln got whacked too, so there is that.

Who gets whacked in this flick?

Defense Secretary Charlie Kirkland.

With Tyler, Serena and the sniper, along with the man who signaled Tyler to go down and whoever gave him the go-ahead involved, Rick suspects a conspiracy. He reveals everything he has learned to Kevin, who confesses that the trip to Norfolk was to test the AirGuard missile defense system, which Powell’s company was backing. He deduces that the sniper, a known Palestinian terrorist named Tarik Ben Rabat, assassinated Kirkland over the Pentagon’s large-scale defense cooperation with and weapons systems transfers to Israel.