![]() ![]() ![]() When a shady Yakuza-adjacent figure named Kenta (Takehiro Hira) offers to help him find his father’s killer, Snake Eyes agrees to come work for him. Twenty years later, that child is now an underground cage fighter going by the name Snake Eyes as a sort of pledge or reminder to himself that he will one day find his father’s killer and end him in violent fashion. The old man, of course, rolls snake eyes (two ones) and is executed, albeit not before the kid is able to escape. He and his dad are on vacation at their family cabin when a group of militarized mercenaries led by a scraggly super-goon captures his father and forces him to literally gamble for his life by rolling a pair of dice. ![]() The movie opens with Snake Eyes as a boy, long before he becomes the wordless warrior fans know and love. And director Robert Schwentke treats the material seriously while still remembering to have fun along the way. Not only is it nice to see the character played by an Asian actor (Snake Eyes has up to this point only been portrayed as a white man), but the Malaysian-English Crazy Rich Asians star does a fine job at kicking the living shit out of countless baddies, as well as giving the up-til-now silent character a voice that fans can get behind. Joe Origins gets right is the casting of Henry Golding as the titular, iconic masked ninja. ![]()
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