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Among Netflix’s many crimes against artistry (the algorithmic dumping ground they greet their acquisitions with, back in the news: not paying their creatives fairly, etc.), one of the more underrated is their absorption of the trashy, stylish genre programmer. Back in the day, a comically bleak piece of Southern Gothic exploitation like The Devil All the Time or espionage paperback material like The Gray Man would’ve been prime red meat for our sturdiest, practical mid-budget craftsmen to stylistically experiment with and develop their auteurist credentials beyond the music videos and advertisements they were likely discovered through. Under Netflix, films like these now fit into pre-determined algorithmic slots and are given a generic, prestige television autopilot slickness that mutes any potential…
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Ok, I do understand the criticisms I’m seeing, (to an extent anyway, but everyone is entitled to their opinions) but I’d be absolutely lying if I said I didn’t end up really loving this for what it was, and I personally think it’s a pretty impressive directorial debut. Solid acting, fantastic music and I thought the last 20 minutes were superb. I like detective/murder mysteries…sue me! | 2023 Ranked | My Last Review: | The Thing |
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I fucked with this hard. gorgeous cinematography and a story that keeps you intrigued for quite long. I can say the pacing is noticeable though. would’ve ate this up even more if I saw it in theatres.
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Feels like someone fed Prisoners into an A.I. and told it to make them a movie like that, and out popped Reptile. If you had put this in front of me without the opening or closing credits and asked me who made it, I would have taken one look at the A-list cast, the bloated runtime, and the fact that it’s so sluggishly paced that it seems to be begging you to watch it at 1.25x speed, and said “Netflix.”
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It would have been funny if they’d used a Justin Timberlake song for the detectives ringtone
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it was so ambitious it forgot about plot holes shoutout to all the characters they never revisited
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Okay killer mystery flick. Some details were unnecessary and dragged the length of the film
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somehow held my attention really well on the 2nd watch but yet i could only recall the gestures of what happened actually a pretty good script and some clever cinematic framing if not over complicated by too many characters tho it scratches the LA Confidential itch in ways Alicia Silverstone totally babe and very believable cop wife funny that we have proof how JT acts around cops and this performance is about right
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In short, it’s unwatchable. So much style, so much random crap: all to produce a tedious film.
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A lot of snakes around
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despite it looking gorgeous, it was a bit confusing and the slow burn was too slow in terms of the pacing. idk why i always find benicio del toro’s acting so comforting.
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rushed ending but very good movie
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On dirait une simple enquête policière mais en fait ça va beaucoup plus loin que ça. Par contre je trouve que c’est assez lent pendant la première moitié. Tout reste très flou et on comprend à peu près vers les 15 dernières minutes du film. J’avoue que la fin j’ai pas trop compris. Les personnages sont introduits de manière assez floue et même à la fin j’ai encore du mal à savoir qui est qui. Je trouve que la fin…
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Netflix original had no reason to use jeffery Epstein
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IMO this one is under rated. Del Toro and Timberlake are awesome. A well done who done it. Plot, dialogue, acting all great.
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Some movies are so bad you have to see it through. If prisoners and the departed had a one night stand this would be the degenerate child
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Pensé que era un asesinato común y resultaron todos siendo corruptos.
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Quando tocou Knocking on the heavens door (não sei se é assim que escreve) absolute cinema.
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Obvio que justin timberlake es oscurisimo
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película promedio de netflix lenta de cojones pero pa un domingo vago no está tan mal
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Não emociona
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Único réptil que vi nesse filme foi a pele de cobra
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Grant Singer needs to be directing again soon ! I’m obsessed with the way this was shot, the small but effective creative choices, for example using mirrors in the frame to show a character or the music stopping paralleling a door shutting Which I think is what subconsciously makes you engaged and compelled to keep watching A masterclass in pacing, writing, suspense I’m not sure how cited a ‘unicorn’ character is but they are essentially a rare type of person…
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good movie but what the fuck does this have to do with reptiles aside from the snake skin ? although could be just a metaphor I’m kind of too dense to pick up. probably. still good 4 star
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I love Benicio Del Toro. Everything he’s in he’s a badass and I love it. Great ensemble cast as well. This felt like Chinatown. A great noir film and I was on the edge of my seat every minute. It did feel slow in the beginning but then, it started to find its footing. It was predictable though. Also, Justin Timberlake plays a great villain. Maybe plays one too well… When he threatened the guy to stay away from his wife was hilarious.
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Dar
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what is my close personal friend daniel molloy doing here
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Quelques maladresses mais c’est bien un film netflix la musique devient chiante mais l’intrigue est respectée et benicio sauve le film
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Banger I need to see more of this director
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faltou começo, meio e fim.
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Eh not really a stand out aspect. I can’t take JT serious and there would be random loud parts for no reason
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It would be hard to find a film I cared less about
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🔎🔎🔎 This detective loves to touch EVERYTHING at the crime scene Fr 😭😭 Pretty good movie I guess 🤔 managed to keep my attention 👏👏👏
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2 horas de pelicula y lo único que pasaba por mi mente era I BRING THE SEXY BACK, YEAH cada vez que salía Justin Timberlake
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Tried so so hard to be spooky and atmospheric. Failed so hard to be spooky and atmospheric
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Ou est le reptile ?
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The average review on letterboxd rates this movie around a 3 and that is very disappointing. Lock in, people. This is a movie about a man dealing with inconclusive evidence, vanishing leads, and red herrings. And he is somehow miraculously able to catch just enough to get it right. He’s not a perfect main character. He’s not Batman or Sherlock Holmes. He doesn’t have superhuman judgement or aim. That’s not the point. He’s a regular guy whose paranoia kept him…
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Holy fucking plot twist and then THE song at the end just finishes it
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It was fine
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i got lost in the sauce it was long as hell
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“there’s only one thing I love almost as much as I love you, and that’s being a cop”
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Had the potential to be good, but overall just very confusing with all the different side plots. Super great cinematography though, was good in the beginning but just got super confusing really fast.
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solid movie to pass the time
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“This is going to ruin the tour.” “What tour?” “The house tour.”
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Rien de plus soporifique qu’un thriller avec une bande sonore bruyante pour éviter qu’on s’endorme
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hm idk 5.5/10 it lwk bored me (maybe its bc ive been in the car for 9 hours) but i kinda like it? idk fr but peak song choice!
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plot holes bigger than my asshole
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Pretty solid
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I like Benicio Del Toro’s performance. The movie itself was aight. Not a whole lot else to say. I’m already in general not a huge fan of detective special ops type stuff, so it’s not a huge surprise that I’m pretty indifferent on this. I appreciate the Scooby Doo villain evil real estate plot tho.
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Un bon petit thriller des familles ! Par contre, les transitions avec les big bruits… j’ai fait trois AVC
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A really solid thriller: great cast, tense, high thrillfactor. Benicio del Toro seriously needs to be given more leading roles! This is a 2023 movie that somehow feels like it was made in the mid-’90s, and that’s exactly what makes it so good.
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Very murder
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just long and boring
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I would have given this a 5 if JT wasn’t the lead actor, but then again he has excellent personal experience as an abusive, scumbag boyfriend so perhaps the casting was on point for this
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Aa g 8 月 21, 2026
kinda felt a bit unexplained?
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Yeah this might ruin the tour 🙁
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Solid gripping thriller. Slightly weak plot but good performances and direction.
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i want that faucet in my kitchen too
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A fine murder mystery movie that wasn’t a total waste of my time, but borderline almost was. Del Toro crushes as the lead, but other than that, the plot was too drawn out, slow at times, and took too many twists and turns for the worse.
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i thought the ending made the movie, but like most of it felt kind of murky and i wish the plot twist was a littleee more hinted at because when it’s set up like that you end up knowing that everything they think is wrong. but that’s not an actual issue i had it was just a long ass movie
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the music scared the shit out of me, thank you Benicio del Toro for existing
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Insanely mid
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Watched this half asleep so im really confused rn need to rewatch. Also went half the movie thinking damn this guy looks just like Justin Timberlake not realising it was actually Justin Timberlake.
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y’a des bonnes idées voire des idées incr mais le film est trop un prouveur genre il veut trop montrer qu’il est génial ça m’embrouille trop pour savoir si c’est un top film ou un bon film qui se prend pour un top film.
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La corrupción policial es tremenda pero que te exponga un mexicano es piso absoluto.
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Sehr gute Story aber könnte mehr aufgeklärt werden.
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Ma came
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Benicio del toro!!! For that reason only it’s worth a watch
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Pretty solid del toro movie
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By no means the most incredible crime thriller out there but my god do I love Benicio Del Toro and basically anything he does, he’s honestly the best part, I love him in this and I think that like I said it’s not the best in the world but it’s good, it’s tense, it’s intriguing, it’s nerve wracking, it’s a fun puzzle to piece together. Not to mention the cinematography, I mean the shot selection, editing and the camera movement…
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LIT-ER-ALLY poop on a stick. Might be the first ever crime movie I’ve seen where the Mexican wasn’t the bad guy #oops
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Filmen va jättebra och det va spännande att kolla, MEN fyfan va jag hatar filmer som slutar dåligt? Den förlorade -2 stjärnor direkt. Slösade 2 timmar precis, gonatt
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Def felt the time on this😭
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3 stars only because it had Puerto Rican Brad Pitt
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Muy buena película.
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Cuando la corrupcion va más allá de lo evidente … muy buena película con un buen giro final
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i thought it was a snake movie
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por dios que pareja
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I feel like this was all over the place, it was slow and spiraled out of control in the end with everyone being a suspect lol. Justin Timberlake…. you’re not a good actor bro.
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guzeldi ama cok yavas islemislerdi katili de bulmasi kolaydi
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Hard to follow. Slow.
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hard to watch bcs the story felt really dragged out, with too many unnecessary details. the shots was pretty nice though.
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Randomly picked this on Netflix and I was actually positively surprised. Not a total waste of time, although the plot and characters still felt a little shallow
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too long, there’s some scenes who are — in MY opinion — useless, the main character, i’m sorry, has less charisma than me, but it’s a competent crime thriller so not bad, just not interesting enough to be a movie i’d recomend or even watch a second time also i wish i could have seen more justin
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well that was quite good and confusing at first. i was prayinggggg for a good ending the cast is interesting 😉
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It is kinda slow at first, but it gets more interesting as the story unfolds. The mystery, atmosphere, and twists kept me engaged, even if the pacing was a little slow at times. Overall, a solid crime thriller.
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le cast est vraiment cool (sauf Timberlake parce que son acting a disparu genre ???) mais le film est long et le script mal fait va s’y + la fin est bâclée
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Benicio always delivers.
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Bien mais ça pourrait être mieux un peu basic shit
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Pouahhh pour le premier long métrage de Grant Singer c’est du pain
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This was great. Honestly, it isn’t talked about enough.
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Напряжение держать смогли, но предсказуемо.
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Forget the banal police corruption plot, I’d have literally preferred to watch Tom Nichols ‘Selling New England ‘ based on this movie. Detective deshmective, he’s a property bro at heart.
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entretenida pero lenta y además no hay reptiles???
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This movie had me ready to give it a five stars review until the ending came so abruptly and confusing im gonna have to watch a review or maybe again to understand the ending but I wnjoyed every single part of this movie it honestly was a 5 star but the way it just abruptly ended was amazing. Another thing is I was always thinking how a good a actor toro es because Im used to him in action
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I just know they told JT to cry me a river for his scene
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Wsh c des batards lawiss
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I love how in some movies you can clearly tell that it was filmed in Georgia, even when no landmarks are shown. I had watched this once before but it was pretty forgetable so I watched it again and it didnt really come back to me until like 2/3 of the way in. Justin Timberlake sucks so much at acting lol
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Edge of my seat!
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it was cheeks until it randomly tightened tf up at the end
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Can’t have plot holes if there’s barely a plot
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Me dormi no entendi nada
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This remind me of Dennis Villeneuve in some way, the cinematography, the long silence. Overall a really engaging thriller/crime/murder mystery movie with so many inconsistency.
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This has one of the funniest visual gags in a movie this serious I’ve ever seen. And then another one that’s almost as good later. Benicio del toro is a good damn treasure.
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68/100
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astaga scoringnya annoying bgt
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Actually really enjoyed the film. Yes there were plot holes and characters that were never fully revisited but overall was an interesting story and I liked the ending.
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Un poco lioso todo según avanza la peli, pero está entretenida. Benicio del Toro carrea.
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njir?
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I enjoyed this. But I do understand the criticism. First half of the movie is very slow indeed. Timberlake isn’t a good actor. But it was an interesting movie
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intrigue bien mais trop long et Justin Timberlake ? bien filmé
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A grungy crime thriller that works well in terms of it’s writing, but not so much emotionally. I liked all of the performances here, Benicio del Toro is a stand out as expected, but I didn’t form any emotional connection to anyone in the film making it hard to fully buy into the story. The film is shot nicely though, I especially liked the way they shoot the interiors of the empty sale houses. That one dream sequence inside one near the end was excellent. And it comes with a nice, unexpected plot twist in the conspiracy, so yeah good movie, an impressive directoral debut
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Bberwigfernando 8 月 16, 2026
“fuck if i know”
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L’histoire est intrigante au départ, puis elle devient de plus en plus prévisible.
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nudy nudy
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Whole neighborhood crooked 😭😭😭 (mom gives it a 5)
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wish i could have watched this film in 1.5x speed
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unfortunate generic ending
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Sehr ruhiger aber dennoch sehr spannender Crime Thriller/ Drama ! Richtig guter Cast, coole Songs und das von Netflix, wow . Sicherlich gibt es genügend und auch besser Filme dieser Art, aber ich mag Crime sehr gerne und dieser hat mich echt sehr gut unterhalten und er ist sehr empfehlenswert. Der Schluss bricht mir etwas zu abrupt ab !
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Could be a 4 star movie, but the end blew it all.. Why the fk did Wally kill Allen ???
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This was an incredibly involved, layered and nuanced story. Almost all of the characters except for the lead detective and his wife lived shady and criminal lives, while posing as upright members of society. The conspiracy is well layered and imbedded. The detective and his wife have the most healthy, loving and supportive relationship I have ever seen depicted in a cop story. It was refreshing. And honestly it’s so loving of a relationship it makes you wish more relationships…
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Do you want the house tour? I can’t take you to the first, second, third flor
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This movie is so dumb
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There was something oddly Wes Anderson-esque about this movie. However, unlike Fantastic Mr Fox, this movie did not delight. Mundane and laborious.
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Muito boa a trama, mas com alguns clichês clássicos
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Slightly better than the reviews I think. Not breaking any ground — kind of a second-rate COPLAND mixed with the grim, drab palette murder procedurals of the last 20 years (GONE GIRL, PRISONERS, etc etc). Director is a music video guy with no other feature credits, but he does a competent job with the tense atmospherics and small-town-hides-a-dark-secret trope. I’d watch Benicio Del Toro in this kind of movie 10/10 times, and it was nice to see Alicia Silverstone. Eric…
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Wow. Loved loved loved
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a atuação do benicio del toro é sensacional
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Benicio Del Toro carried
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Won’t be sleeping tn but it was cool
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Evil Justin Timberlake, “no mom I don’t want to put on my suit and tie😒”
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Baita filme de suspense. Tem uma pegada mais parada, mas a tensão é muito bem construída através do jogo de câmera, principalmente pelas angulações, e da trilha sonora, que deixa tudo ainda mais intrigante. Fiquei um pouco confusa no final, já que não é um daqueles finais super mastigados que explicam tudo mas, mesmo assim, minha experiência com o filme foi muito boa. Fiquei realmente presa na trama, tentando entender onde aquilo tudo ia dar. Mas o grande ++ do…
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THIS WAS FUCKING AWESOMEEEEEEEEEEE ,, the last 10 minutes had me on the edge of my seat … also why does the cousin from uncut gems always be fucking up a good embezzlement
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ouais j’ai du chercher des explications mais c’était bien et super bo
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if this movie was 90 minutes, it would’ve been 4 stars
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Getting shot by Benicio del Toro must feel like getting a kiss on the forehead from the Virgin Mary
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The Unusual Suspects
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lore güzeldi ama çok uzattıkları icin baya puan kırdım
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Intense thriller. It was a nice ride. Keeps you guessing on who is on what side. Would watch again
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i’m back to watching movies. this movie was overall interesting to watch and i love a mystery detective movie but i feel like it lacked so much substance. love benicio and alicia though. have crushes on both of them
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Frapadingue
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justin timbersnake
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Phenomenal camera work, the cinematography is so good, the sound design is even better, shit that gets you on the edge of your seat, plot isn’t retarded, it puts everything in front of you to figure out yourself, so many misleading clues mixed in with the truth, it’s so nutty, it doesn’t treat you like a dumbass it makes it hard for you to piece it together, man this nigga Eli gotta be my favorite character, such a great movie…
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ure lucky i fuck with murder mystery movie eventhough this was deeper than that. pacing was a bit slow and there were unnecessary scenes/subplots that dont even matter
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Oh man, this was kind of like a mid/bad episode of Criminal Minds, Spencer Reid had figured it all out in 40 minutes.
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prisioners y devil all the time tienen un hijo por IA generativa. cuanto más veo pelis de este tipo más sucia me siento por ver semejante bazofia
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Agréablement surpris par ce polar dominé par Benicio Del Toro, qui part d’une enquête pour meurtre pour nous plonger dans les manigances et les faux semblants. Les deux intrigues se mêlent bien et j’ai trouvé le casting très bien choisi. La narration est fluide, l’ensemble fonctionne bien.
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This was epic. Had me hooked from the start. Benicio del Toro and Alicia Silverstone are standout. I didn’t see all the twists and turns coming. Beautifully shot too.
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Benicio del Toro fucking goated as always and makes Justin Timberlake look like hot ass next to him The cinematography + sound combination had me lowkey tweaking at the intense parts Perfect needle drop ending
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So suspenseful, good plot building without a lot of dialogue. Great cinematography. Just my kind of movie. I’m seeing a lot of negative reviews about the pacing of the movie… I think people are so needy for some kind of quick fix and forget how beautifully the movie is shot, how much you connect with the characters, and see into his life. I loved it and I loved the slow pace. I think a faster pace would have bored me and made for a shit movie.
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It was a good movie, if you took out timberlake and added a random actor his role would still have the same impact. Didn’t expect the twist near the end though
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This was GOOD idgaf what these other reviews are talking about!!! Benicio is incredible
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Great cinematography, great atmosphere, and an unexpectedly amazing soundtrack that just goes BANG out of nowhere during the quietest scenes. Benicio del Toro was great too. The slow-burn mystery kept me engaged most of the time, but the pace dragged a bit and got me bored here and there.
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A solid crime mystery, but it never really excited me. The atmosphere was good, but for a 2-hour-and-16-minute murder investigation, I expected more tension. Not bad, just not as gripping as I hoped.”
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Literally not a single reptile in this movie…. Just bunch of snakes
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I quite enjoyed the pacing. 40 mins in, I asked myself what made benicio del toro pick up this script is also the exact moment the plot changes direction, quite enjoyed that gradual turn.
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Reptile had me hooked. Completely. From the beginning, I wanted to know what happened, who did what, who was lying, who could actually be trusted and I spent most of the movie questioning absolutely everyone. It had that perfect psychological-thriller tension where you feel like the answer is sitting right in front of you, but you still can’t quite grab it. Casting Justin Timberlake was certainly… a choice, considering how much I cannot stand that man, but thankfully he wasn’t…
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Ni fu ni fa
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I knew the guy that looked like Jeffrey Epstein was sus
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Gosh, i want that faucet. It’s not boring, but it’s too long.
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Bro was investigating a murder and in his spare time looking at kitchen facilities, least stressed detective. probably was watching corn too
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feel like this could have been so much better without the netflix treatment, also insane we never saw a single reptile
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dentro de 10 años la van a amar y no entender como los adultos pelotudos le ponían una estrella en letterboxd
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This was a really solid and entertaining detective movie – really dripping with the noir angst that I want from the genre without feeling too much like a cartoonish genre piece, like it still felt real and like something that could happen in the real world and all the characters felt like real people more or less. I mean Timberlake maybe doesn’t feel like a completely real person but he plays a very good, convincing, soulless character à la Affleck…
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While the ending of this film may seem cliché and even something you should’ve expected, Benicio Del Toro put on arguably one of the best acting performances I have ever seen in a detective/murder mystery movie. His performance as well as the chilling twist near the end of the movie strongly carry the rating of this movie.
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good deceive movie just like the rest good ending
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Unnecessarily long but can’t deny it was engaging. I’d say Benicio del Toro’s aura carries the entire film.
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Watched this movie like 2 years ago and hated it so much I gave it one star but didn’t write an entry so this is my best guess. Filmography was very nice, loved the color grading. Ok that was the only good thing about this movie. Maybe cast too. Storyline HORRIBLE nothing made sense I didn’t care about anyone I also couldn’t tell the difference between any of the 50 million old men in this movie. Have no idea what…
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- Synopsis
- Following the brutal murder of a young real estate agent, a hardened detective attempts to uncover the truth in a case where nothing is as it seems, and by doing so dismantles the illusions in his own life.
- Director
- Grant Singer
- Writer
- Grant Singer, Benicio del Toro, Benjamin Brewer
- Studio
- Black Label Media
- Country
- USA
- Language
- English
- Year
- 2023
- Runtime
- 136 mins
- Canada07 Sep 2023
- USA29 Sep 2023
- UK29 Sep 2023
- USA29 Sep 2023
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