Reptile

A good-looking, engaging B-movie made with uncommon intelligence. Music video director Grant Singer’s feature debut is no perfect object, but it is decidedly, and often successfully, aspiring to be something more than just toss-off streaming content.

Less "whodunit", more "who cares?"

Once the film gets around to revealing the culprit, we have already lost interest, enervated in the face of a movie that, like an overeager snake, bites off far more than it can swallow.

Del Toro doesn’t disappoint. Humorous, serious, determined.

The bulky physical presence of Del Toro himself gives the film its momentum and force.

“Reptile” tugs you along with a competent and accessible intrigue.

Easily the worst big budget detective thriller since The Snowman a few years back, Reptile eventually lures the viewer in by making them question how this could’ve gone so wrong given the talent involved.

It's easy to admire how Reptile attempts to do things a bit differently ... It's also easy to begrudge this movie's eventual shift toward the routinely straightforward and the unnecessarily convoluted.

Reptile gets an extra edge thanks to its rock-solid cast and sufficiently gripping mystery, but it never coalesces into anything incredible.



Reptile’s main strength is del Toro. He shares great chemistry with Silverstone, his co-star in 1997’s Excess Baggage, but it is his character's combination of tenaciousness and eccentricity that are the movie’s most original components.