{"id":33979,"date":"2023-10-02T05:12:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T09:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33979"},"modified":"2023-10-02T05:12:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T09:12:31","slug":"reptile-2023-starring-benicio-del-toro-justin-timberlake-eric-bogosian-alicia-silverstone-domenick-lombardozzi-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33979","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Reptile&#8221; (2023) starring Benicio Del Toro, Justin Timberlake, Eric Bogosian, Alicia Silverstone &#038; Domenick Lombardozzi \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z100223zview_reptile.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"625\" \/><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Reptile <\/em><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">(2023)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Grant Singer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Grant Singer, Benjamin Brewer, Benicio del Toro <\/strong>from a story by <strong>Grant Singer, Benjamin Brewer<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Benicio Del Toro<\/strong><strong>, Justin Timberlake, Eric Bogosian, Alicia Silverstone, Domenick Lombardozzi, Frances Fisher, Ato Essandoh, Mike Pniewski, Catherine Dyer, Michael Beasley,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>James Devoti and Matilda Lutz.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Shed the Lies<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When real estate agent Summer Elswick (Lutz) is brutally murdered, Detective Tom Nichols (del Toro) and his partner, Detective Dan Cleary (Essandoh) get the case.\u00a0 As they dig into the murder several suspects begin to appear.\u00a0 There&#8217;s Summer&#8217;s boyfriend, Will Grady (Timberlake), co-owner of the real estate company she worked for.\u00a0 The murder victim&#8217;s ex-husband also looks good for it.\u00a0 Then there&#8217;s the guy who thinks Grady was responsible for his father&#8217;s death.\u00a0 Maybe he did it to get revenge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The twisted truth is there.\u00a0 Nichols will just have to dig through the lies and alibies.\u00a0 He won&#8217;t like what he discovers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Reptile\u00a0<\/em>features an excellent cast.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Benicio del Toro always brings his &#8220;A&#8221; game.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Justin Timberlake surprised me.\u00a0 He plays the boyfriend of the murder victim.\u00a0 The guy&#8217;s just drained due to her death&#8230; or is he?<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alicia Silverstone is great as del Toro&#8217;s sexy wife.\u00a0 She appears to be devoted and in love.\u00a0 But is she?<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">I love when Domenick Lombardozzi shows up in a movie\/series.\u00a0 I first took notice of him in <em>Tulsa King<\/em>.\u00a0 Then I went, &#8220;Yeah, that&#8217;s the guy from&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 Lombardozzi is always solid.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eric Bogosian,\u00a0 Frances Fisher and Mike Pniewski are in smaller, but important roles.\u00a0 They are welcome additions to the cast.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hats off to director and co-writer Grant Singer for creating a murder mystery populated by characters that all feel real.\u00a0 Singer handles the action and quiet moments well.\u00a0 I look forward to his next project.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong><em style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Reptile <\/em><\/strong>(2023) <\/span><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z100223zview_reptile2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"316\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reptile (2023) Director: Grant Singer Screenplay: Grant Singer, Benjamin Brewer, Benicio del Toro from a story by Grant Singer, Benjamin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33983,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33979\/revisions\/33983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}