Review of Destroyer

Destroyer (2018)
Less-than-perfect L.A. detective battles her demons.
23 May 2019
Warning: Spoilers
I watched this at home on DVD from my public library. It is a pretty fascinating story and made in a very interesting style. The movie begins with a scene of three people looking at a murdered man and then wraps around itself, we eventually realize that opening scene was also the end of the movie.

Nicole Kidman, pretty and glamorous in most of her roles, is way against type here as old-looking and rough-looking Erin Bell. She is a L. A. detective. I can't really say much about the story without revealing key spoilers, so I will just say it involves undercover work that eventually leads to a bank robbery where people are killed. Then 17 years later some issues resurface.

I have been a Kidman fan for most of her career, I have never seen her in anything like this and she is fantastic. In fact it is the main reason to watch this movie.
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