amountainclimber
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If you enjoyed the True Detective series, you'll love this. Reptile isn't a series so it doesn't have the time to build the same depth of character. But, like True Detective, it's heavy on ambience, with an excellent atmospheric score, and populated by an excellent group of character actors who play normal on the outside and creepy on the inside. Except Justin Timberlake, who may not be a character actor, but based on his work here, he could be. Michael Pitt is especially effective, as he really seems like a terrifying psycho who's just wandered onto the set. Ultimately, this Benicio del Toro's movie, brilliant as the reptile who is more cold blooded than the killer he is hunting.
Oblivion is nine years old as I write this, and in perusing the reviews written when it opened, they have aged far less well than the movie.
Those reviews are mostly concerned about whatever the hell Tom Cruise was going through at the time, or obsessed with obscure symbolism in the production design.
For whatever reason, it appears the reviewers couldn't get over themselves enough to just watch the movie and evaluate it on its merits.
On the off chance this film has escaped your attention, it is well worth two hours of your time. It is solidly acted and produced, has first class effects, and a spectacular location. The story combines some emotional heft with a clever and satisfying twist at the end.
I watched it again, but this time with my SciFi hating wife. She protested initially, watched the entire thing, and then thanked me for getting her to watch it afterwards.
That's as good as it gets.
Those reviews are mostly concerned about whatever the hell Tom Cruise was going through at the time, or obsessed with obscure symbolism in the production design.
For whatever reason, it appears the reviewers couldn't get over themselves enough to just watch the movie and evaluate it on its merits.
On the off chance this film has escaped your attention, it is well worth two hours of your time. It is solidly acted and produced, has first class effects, and a spectacular location. The story combines some emotional heft with a clever and satisfying twist at the end.
I watched it again, but this time with my SciFi hating wife. She protested initially, watched the entire thing, and then thanked me for getting her to watch it afterwards.
That's as good as it gets.
Its hard to believe that someone actually got paid to write the script for this pathetic and mind-bendingly idiotic rip-off of the Castle TV series. And it doesn't end there. The acting performances are all excruciatingly bad. They may find the killer but nobody involved in making this movie survives. So astonishingly bad I watched it all.