Really good movie. Keeps you engaged right up untill the last scene.
10/10
A good cast are adrift in a promising movie that seemingly shed its skin to become something quite empty-headed.
A hidden gem. I came for Benicio del Toro because, well, we don’t get enough of him, and stayed for the very well acted scenes. Was pleasantly surprised to see AS, I probably haven’t seen her since my adolescence. Yea it’s a bit long, but there are enough details to make the journey interesting. Not something I could watch again, but 100% happy to have seen it!
The good: incredibly well acted and directed. This oozed modern neo-noir. The music and vibe were great although at times overzealous.
The bad: convoluted and complicated plot. Far too long. Instead of a slow burn, it's just a slog. A lot of irrelevant pseudo-plotting to fill air.
This could have been a lot better with a better editor and writer. Give a little more narrative meat worthy of the scene chewing.
A little too complicated for it’s own good, and basically a similar vibe to The Departed but no where near as good.
Seemed a little stop-and-go with short scenes and weird flow, but it was still enjoyable.
Decent enough movie but, as has been mentioned a number of times, way too long, quite a lot of padding for the sake of increasing the run time but adding no value. Odd choice of title too, I was half expecting some 'creature feature' like Venom but it's just a name a I guess, bit like calling the Fast series Coffee instead, like huh? Good cast though and great cinematography, very atmospheric but 90 minutes with a tighter script and better editing would have made it less of a slog in parts.
This movie was really boring to me. I would say it couldn't keep me engaged but it never had me engaged to begin with. It was just really bland and I didn't really care about anything that happened.
Like the troposphere: lots of atmosphere and not much else, but who cares?
Reptile is more a character study tattooed onto noir than a true thriller, and is all the better for it. Benicio Del Toro continues to improve with each performance and the story of a troubled detective trying to establish himself in a new town is interesting enough to keep us hooked.
It manages to create a certain increasingly oppressive atmosphere around the character of Tommy, helped above all by a claustrophobic score by Yair Elazar Glotman, but it feels like a kind of minor David Fincher, without much suspense or much strength. Nor does help to improve the film a predictable script from the first appearance of the characters and some ridiculous performances such as that of a somewhat misplaced Justin Timberlake. There is a nineties police look but it lacks development and forcefulness.
A thrillride! Never seen private life and crime Investigation of the (Cop) Protagonist mixed up in that way. Fresh storytelling!
Brilliant score, really tensed it up.
Kind of constructed Story, thats all for negative
i don't mind long movies - i just think this one didn't need to be as long as it was. but the acting is good and i like benicio del toro pretty much no matter what his role is.
Really good cops' movie, not that predictable at all, long, but totally enjoyable.
Benicio Del Toro is why I choose to watch. Movie was good. Too long though. Should you watch? Yes.
Really well done. Been a while since Netflix dropped such a high quality movie. Easy 9/10.
Great movie! Director’s work is very good and nuanced.
It’s kind of like CopLand, with Benicio del Toro in unusual role of a cop doing a lot of paperwork.
God this movie was so damn boring. I kept waiting and waiting for something to happen then when it finally does you're just glad that it's over so you can watch something else. Don't waste your time.
That faucet was the real winner in this movie.
This was a neo-noir film, but it lacked quite a bit of intrigue due to a plot w/ a number of holes and meaningless red herrings. During the first half of the film kept a nice pace, similar to David Fincher's Mindhunter series, but it tailed off quite a bit in the last half. The acting was solid, and it was great seeing Alicia Silverstone in her role, but in the end, the plot, and how it came uncovered, really made little-to-no sense. They should've thought this through a bit more, b/c it needed more polish. The glaring question mark was, if the cops were trying to solve a murder, why did the captain of the force store the vehicle the homicide detective had been searching for in the garage of his home? What kind of mindless stupidity was that?!? Also, once the car was discovered, they mainly discussed how it linked the captain to the ongoing conspiracy, rather than any sort of revelation that he was the person who raped and murdered a young woman. That reeked of nothing more than misogyny, as if the victim was a complete afterthought.
Nice photography. Perplexing soundtrack, the composer treats this like a horror movie from minute one.
Nice thriller, which, however, does everything very planned according to the book, and therefore does not linger very long afterwards. In terms of story, it is even a bit incoherent indeed, and not all set lines get an answer or resolution. The central mystery is quite fascinating, but unfortunately it does not have a very catchy conclusion, and you remain a little bit hungry as a viewer in that area. But apart from those flaws, it's a real vibe- movie, especially in the fall season. The atmosphere is dark and cold, reflected by a dark lighting and a very supercooled playing Benicio Del Toro. It shares some overlapping features with a series like True Detective, and that can of course be understood as a favorable comparison. And the rest of the cast may not stand out directly (only Justin Timberlake, but in the negative; I don't think he's a very mediocre actor, but here he doesn't exactly play the tiles of the roof), but Benicio Del Toro is really very strong. You never really get a grip on his character; it is a very ambiguous figure of whom you never know clearly what he thinks or is going to do, and what his role in the story is right. Some hints are given to his background story, but real answers are also largely out of there. At least it's a role that is perfect for Del Toro. Those dead looks of his, perfect.
Great acting, believable relationships, proper atmosphere and some thrilling aspects. A bit too long but that didn't bother me as I enjoyed spending time with our main characters and unravelling the mystery with them.
A bit confusing in terms of time period to start with due to some video processing effects giving an interesting 90s feel, but mobiles and cars place us firmly in 2022.
For me the story wasn't that original, but the insight into the personal and career workings of our main character give this a very fresh feel for me; especially the relationship with his wife.
I can see how other people would get frustrated by the 2hr15 running time, but I was never bored. If anything the drama/tension was drawn out a little too long.
Worth watching. High quality performances here
Well that’s 136 minutes of my life I’m not going to get back.
Started off really well but lost traction towards the end.
Great actors and pretty good acting.
Hinted at a crooked past for nichols but never explains anything.
I don’t feel the ending really works and dropped my rating from at least an 8 down to a 7.
This movie wants to be so much better than it is. Does that make it bad? Not at all. It’s just painfully average. It wants to be like Zodiac or Se7en so badly that it makes it harder to enjoy. There’s a reason it went straight to Netflix. Go in with a lower bar and there is a nicely average thriller here!
Rating: 2.5/5 - 70% - Worth Watching
Previously, the trees were greener, women were more faithful, cops were honest. Work was not just a quick ticket to a beautiful life. Time passed, erasing the difference between cops and thieves. But not all men softened. Between lively colleagues, they are like old reptiles. A relic of the past, dead end of evolution. But To Protect and to Serve is not just a motto for such people.
Very good movie, enjoyed it. But oh boy was it draggy.
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This is a really good, solid, engaging crime/thriller. I found the ending to be a little murky, but you might not. Overall though, this was a really enjoyable movie.
How I rate:
1-3 :heart: = seriously! don't waste your time
4-6 :heart: = you may or may not enjoy this
7-8 :heart: = I expect you will like this too
9-10 :heart: = movies and TV shows I really love!
"I came into this world alone. I'll go through it alone. And I'm going to die alone. So fuck it."
Benicio del Toro is good at playing the person with authority that lets things breathe out before speaking. His silence speaks for itself at times. There is tension and mystery the whole time, and what stood out the most is how good Benicio del Toro and Alicia Silverstone are together.
Suspenseful with a twist in the end. Good movie.
Please more of this, Netflix, and less of the stuff you have given us in the past
Way too long and very very slow. Lacks dynamics. With a little bit of pace would so much better
:heart::heart::heart::heart::heart: - Film is far to long
Here's how my rating system works:
10:heart:- Masterpiece :100:
9:heart:- Excellent
8:heart: - Amazing :ok_hand:
7:heart:- Great :sun_with_face:
6:heart: - Good :thumbsup:
5:heart: - Average :head_bandage:
4:heart: - Bad but watchable :octagonal_sign:
3:heart: - Bad :sob:
2:heart:- Awful :face_vomiting:
1:heart: - Bull Shit :zzz:
I watched it for Benicio del Toro because everything I've seen him in has been really good and this movie didn't disappoint.
a bit overstylized for my taste.
Nice, good cast but slow and predictable.
very excited about this one. i have a feeling it'll be spectacular.
Shout by DaveznBlockedParent2023-10-02T20:20:38Z
Good movie. Over long, dragged for a while, but good ending. Well worth a watch :thumbsup_tone1: