Destroyer

This movie was awful! Nicole Kidman's wig acted better than she did. This movie was so so slow. The plot was bad, the acting sub-par, and I'll never get my money back. Don't waste two hours of your life in this film. It's not worth it.

Cop revenge drama. Stars Nicole Kidman as a very heavily made up and unrecognisable world weary LAPD detective. Her life has fallen apart, her colleagues have written her off, and she's tracking down the gang leader of a team of cold-blooded killers, this is from an undercover assignment from her past. When the leader re-emerges many years later, she tracks him down to finally have her revenge. Many flash-back sequences explain her motivation, she has an estranged family, and her young daughter is becoming the woman she has already become. Nicole Kidman is a wasted talent, she's never played this type of hard, gritty character before and shouldn't try again as it either didn't work or she was simply poorly directed. There's a totally unnecessary (kind of sexual) scene with Nicole and a villain in bed, she does him a 'favour' that didn't make sense. The film pretty much end where it starts, which is becoming a tad cliché. The selling point is Nicole Kidman, who I think was wrongly cast. Struggles to be a 'B' movie.

I'm not sure why there are so many negative reviews, although in reading them they have either not watched the film or simply failed to understand the plot. It's a good, dark film based around revenge, leading you on a journey to discover to discover who the real villain is. Please ignore the reviews that state it's confusing (it's really not) or the ones the watched 30 minutes of it (not sure how you can review something you haven't seen?) Watch it and make your own mind up!

Slow, boring and overly pretentious. Bland plot that is thinly spread over 2 painful hours. Kidman plodding around like she's soiled her pants isn't great acting - BMX Bandits is a better example of her fare. If you are expecting a pacy action thriller, avoid this. I would've walked out after 30 mins had it not sent me to sleep.