Review of Destroyer (2018) by Kenr — 26 Feb 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 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.