Del Toro has the kind of face that can suggest a hundred emotions rippling under the surface as a detective investigating a murder.
Benicio Del Toro as a police detective investigating a murder in the Netflix thriller"Reptile."
Sometimes a great performance is enough to pull you through a half-baked script. In the dark thriller “Reptile” on Netflix, a police detective played by Benicio Del Toro works to solve the brutal murder of a real estate agent, and del Toro single-handedly keeps the film afloat. There’s some irony to that, because he also shares screenwriting credit with director Grant Singer and Benjamin Brewer.
We know little about the victim, who was stabbed to death while alone in a house she was showing. Detective Tom Nichols and his boss — who is also his wife’s uncle, it’s all very chummy — arrive at the crime scene. “Get those people across the street,” says Bogosian’s seen-it-all police captain, “and no press, I don’t want anyone talking to them.” He turns to an officer: “Whadda we got?” We got a dead realtor, comes the answer. This isn’t scintillating dialogue.
Director Singer evokes the right kind of grimy, noir mood — sinister and full of tension, with overcast skies — but the movie only packs a punch when the camera is focused on Del Toro’s wonderful visage. There are some interesting and unexplored class issues at play; the wealth of Timberlake’s character contrasted with the more working class personalities of the cops investigating him.
The moment doesn’t make sense, but Del Toro’s looming presence compensates time and again, full of moral quandaries, heavy sighs and a desire to just do the job at hand.
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