Paul Thomas Anderson ‘s One Battle After Another is chock-full of amazing performances. There’s Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead as bumbling former revolutionary Bob Ferguson. Teyana Taylor gives a searing turn as current revolutionary and Bob’s former lover Perfidia Beverly Hills. And Sean Penn steals every scene as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Colonel Lockjaw, the law enforcer who kidnapped Bob and Beverly Hills’s daughter Willa (Chase Infiniti, in yet another incredible showing).
But the most compelling performance in the movie comes, ironically, from the most “normal” character. Ironic, because he’s played by Benicio del Toro .
Del Toro appears as Sensei Sergio St. Carlos, Willa’s karate teacher and a surprising ally in Bob’s battle against Lockjaw. The night that Lockjaw comes hu