Destroyer

Annapurna Pictures | Release Date: December 25, 2018

5.8	USER SCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 80 Ratings

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GreatMartinFeb 1, 2019

Director Karyn Kusama has the habit of repeating a scene she likes two to three times more not only unnecessary but making the movie move slowly. Let's have a mother and daughter scene in a luncheonette and then repeat it in a diner when weDirector Karyn Kusama has the habit of repeating a scene she likes two to three times more not only unnecessary but making the movie move slowly. Let's have a mother and daughter scene in a luncheonette and then repeat it in a diner when we already know the mother is not only a bad mother but a drunk. If Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman) says the 'f' word meaningful let's have her say it 5 or 6 times in one scene and angrily in another plus throw it in here and there. To show Bell can take it like a man why not a few different scenes where we see her get beaten real bad and then get up from the floor and run after this guy or that guy?

The best part of the movie is the first thirty minutes while you have to check out if that is really the beautiful Nicole Kidman looking so beaten, tired, old and almost ugly with the makeup and when you know it definitely is you can get up and leave without missing a thing.

"Destroyer" is not only a very violent, depressing and confusing movie but with the coming and going in time plus not being able to tell who is who the only fun thing is keeping track of the length of Bell's hair so you know what time period we are in.

See it at your own risk!… Expand

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BroyaxMar 20, 2019

Un film à la Heat par son ambiance désabusée et une Nicole Kidman très impressionnante en flic non moins désabusée dont la culpabilité et les regrets se lisent sur son visage... car en tant qu'agente infiltrée (oui, oui, une "agente" pourUn film à la Heat par son ambiance désabusée et une Nicole Kidman très impressionnante en flic non moins désabusée dont la culpabilité et les regrets se lisent sur son visage... car en tant qu'agente infiltrée (oui, oui, une "agente" pour l'inclusivité et la parité obligatoires...) dans un gang de braqueurs très dangereux, elle a sensiblement merdé...

C'est ce que l'on devine ou ce que l'on parvient à comprendre -tout de même- au fil d'un récit très laborieux, car les évènements se sont déroulés 17 ans auparavant... Le film abuse donc de nombreux retours en arrière et fait régulièrement la navette entre le passé et le présent de façon si fugace et maladroite qu'on y entrave pas grand-chose. Sauf à la fin... tout de même !

Le comble est que le film s'étire en longueurs interminables sans faire progresser le schmilblick significativement ; il se laisse aller par contre au psychodrame inutile entre notre flic (hum... flickette pour le féminin peut-être ?) et sa fille de 16 ans qui fait n'imp' (normal, c'est une ado...).

Par la grâce du maquillage (ou d'effets spéciaux ?) on alterne ici la Kidman jeune et la Kidman... moins jeune un peu poivrote sur les bords qui campe ce personnage au bout du rouleau mais d'une volonté toujours implacable. Nicole reste en tout cas stupéfiante de brio et demeure sans conteste l'intérêt principal de ce film qui ressemblerait presque à Heat s'il n'était pas aussi mal foutu et bordélique.… Expand

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DlrlmJul 19, 2019

This movie sucked. Gabe me the feeling she was just chasing an oscar by not wearing any makeup. Like that Charlize Theron movie about that serial killer. Except that one was good.

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KenRFeb 26, 2020

Unless you enjoy being spat at, verbally abused and treated like a second rate viewer this could be a good movie to stay away from. TV director Karyn Kusama, her writer hubby Phil Hay, along with his co-writer Matt Manfredi look like beingUnless you enjoy being spat at, verbally abused and treated like a second rate viewer this could be a good movie to stay away from. TV director Karyn Kusama, her writer hubby Phil Hay, along with his co-writer Matt Manfredi look like being names to consider adding to a must avoid list. With a sludge fund of impossible to like characters - who continue to become more detestable as the minutes tick by (and there is 2 long Hrs worth that goes very slowly). You will be forgiven if you walk (no, run) out on this grot-fest of undesirable situations and characters (my audience was gone within the first 25mins). I, being a glutton for punishment had to stay to see just how much worse it could get --struggled to the bitter end-- did it get better? Sadly not. It’s another of those simple stories that have been given an unnecessary flash-back flash-forward edit job - in an attempt to make you think it's deep and meaningful, it isn’t. It seems Nichole Kidman may be heading down the road to self ruin by taking any script that’s thrown at her - leaving any followers left to think twice, before any longer bothering to follow her career. It’s as if she mistakenly feels, as these cheap writers do, that you have to keep going lower down the moral scale to be noticed. Well, from the look of the lowering audience attendances this just ain’t necessarily so! The artsy pretensions did not help whatsoever, just made it look all the more contrived. Waste of an otherwise interesting music score and just about everything else. For the easily pleased.… Expand

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