@filmenthusiast: Sean Penn delivers what critics are calling his best work in years as Col. Steven J. Lockjaw in Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another (2025), a rigid military officer who walks with such an absurdly stiff gait that it's become one of the film's most talked-about details. Penn ensures Lockjaw is almost subhuman through both his despicable actions and his physical presence, moving with a stilted, robotic motion while styling his ridiculous haircut with his own saliva on a plastic comb. The performance threads the needle between menacing villainy and bonkers comedy, playing the virulently racist colonel as a painfully stiff, utterly clueless weirdo who believes he's the Terminator but actually moves through the world with the haplessness of Wile E. Coyote. Oscar buzz for a potential third win is very real. 🏆 What are your thoughts on One Battle After Another?

Geezy :

A seamen demon….”that’s correct”

🇬🇭Jean Dessalines🇺🇸 :

Am I the only one that felt bad for Colonel Lockjaw at the end

ᵃᶜᶜᵉⁿᵗˢ🧃 :

the unseriousness of this scene is crazy

Nur_Khadijah :

I've laughed at this part😅

User :

To think he actually helped capture el chapo in real life, what a hero

Dash79 :

Amazing film. An absolute work of art.

Bum Farto :

It seems to me that many of the criticisms come from treating the movie as if it were meant to be taken seriously. But it’s a black comedy, its nonstop conflicts and exaggerated characters are intentional and part of the humor.

C.Marq 🤍🩵💜 :

It’s Fitz fighting laughter for me 😭🤣

giokandel :

what's Fitz doing here lol

lex :

this is the most unseriously serious movie I’ve watched and I love it

da_realgiornoh :

This is who won the Oscar??

William Brust :

“My power was” 😂 I loved this movie so much.

SRHPUFF :

A memorable performance but not surprising. He always delivers! 👏🏼

Obi Wan Bon Jovi :

Lemon :

so much happened in this movie yet it felt like none of it was caused by the characters, everything was just happening to them, still a good movie tho

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custom7 :

this movie is hilarious

Bot 🤖 :

Generational performance. Best villain since Hans Landa.

Username :

worst movie I ever seen

Kasia KM :

Such a shitty, overrated movie. The characters are caricatures - lack any depth and there is no character arc. Complete waste of time. The worst film of PTA (I loved his other films, including Licorice Pizza)

bree 🫶🏾 :

Man this movie was something else 😃

complete_unknown :

Once again "One Battle After Another" is overrated

Cancerbero :

Having 3 Oscar winners together should have been better , however, and in spite of the fact that they acted powerfully ( DiCaprio was excellent) , the plot and the whole movie was a waste of talent ….. what’s the real theme if it ???

slay :

This scene was EPIC Sean Penn played this role