Red Rock West (1993) takes classic noir ingredients (a drifter, a mistaken identity, a contract killing) and drops them into the vast, dangerous openness of the American West. Nicolas Cage plays an ordinary man trapped in a tightening web of bad choices, while Dennis Hopper steals the film as a hitman with a smile. It’s neo-noir stripped down to its essentials: temptation, tension, and trouble rolling in across an empty highway. | Midnight Movie Snack