A police detective reconnects with people from an undercover assignment in her distant past in order to make peace.A police detective reconnects with people from an undercover assignment in her distant past in order to make peace.A police detective reconnects with people from an undercover assignment in her distant past in order to make peace.
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- 3 wins & 20 nominations
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- TriviaNicole Kidman stated that she got the flu during filming, but powered through and tried to use it in her performance. For the final scene in the movie with her character's daughter, Kidman said she was so sick while filming she could "barely stand."
- GoofsTwo license plates used in this movie show up on TV shows. A car waiting at an intersection when Bell tails Petra's ride to the bank heist has the plate 2FAN321. This was also used on The Rookie S5E4 on an SUV in the background, and in S5E21 on a drive-by shooter's car when Frank is having dinner with Lucy. When Petra's ride arrives at the heist and lets her and another person out, it's in front of a car with the plate 3DHI832. This was also used on SWAT S6E6 on Saint's car.
There is no continuity between props in a movie and props in unrelated TV shows.
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Written by Paul Kalayeh, James Desmond, Louis Summerville, John Eugenio
Performed by Beat Xplosion
Published by Engine Co 35 Music Publishing
Courtesy of 5 Alarm Music
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I seriously do not get half of the reviews about this movie about it not having a plot and being slow or about the editing being confusing.
"Destroyer" has a very straight forward plot that is not even using cheap twists but rather telling a straight story in a hypnotic trance way and cutting up the timeline to reveal information at the time the director considered it necessary.
I loved Karyn Kusamas "The Invitation" and "Destroyer" is a well made movie, no matter how you look at it. Nicole Kidman carries the movie along with the perfect choice of music that sucks you in and watch the plot unfold. This is not an action movie and if you fell for that its not the directors fault. Its a slow drama about a cop that made wrong decisions and tries to right her wrongs when her past with a bank heist gone wrong gets back to her 17 years later.
I know people today have attention spans like moths but seriously... if you can't accept a slow drama for what it is, that says more about you than about the movie. And come on, its 2019... if you are confused by a non-linear timeline and can't wait till the movie clears up the confusion.... thats on you too.
Don't expect this to be a violent revenge movie... its not. Well, at least its not the focus of "Destroyer", although the movie does not hold back when things go down. The drama elements are well played and the ending was quite touching to me. At its core this movie is about the desperate longing for escape from a cold, grey world and its quite obvious from the choice of locations and flats that always give off a bleak, worn down feeling. Music and cinematography make this work perfectly and the editing helped spice up a rather straight forward plot. If you liked Kusamas previous movies... go for it. The key ingredients of haunting atmosphere and slow unveiling of information to the viewer are there although this is a completely different movie than "The invitation". So don't fall for all the moths swarming IMDB. I can't put my finger on all those silly 1star ratings but honestly, it reeks of gender insecurity.
I know people today have attention spans like moths but seriously... if you can't accept a slow drama for what it is, that says more about you than about the movie. And come on, its 2019... if you are confused by a non-linear timeline and can't wait till the movie clears up the confusion.... thats on you too.
Don't expect this to be a violent revenge movie... its not. Well, at least its not the focus of "Destroyer", although the movie does not hold back when things go down. The drama elements are well played and the ending was quite touching to me. At its core this movie is about the desperate longing for escape from a cold, grey world and its quite obvious from the choice of locations and flats that always give off a bleak, worn down feeling. Music and cinematography make this work perfectly and the editing helped spice up a rather straight forward plot. If you liked Kusamas previous movies... go for it. The key ingredients of haunting atmosphere and slow unveiling of information to the viewer are there although this is a completely different movie than "The invitation". So don't fall for all the moths swarming IMDB. I can't put my finger on all those silly 1star ratings but honestly, it reeks of gender insecurity.
- dschmeding
- Feb 16, 2019
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- Also known as
- Destrucción
- Filming locations
- 9800 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, California, USA(Interiors and exteriors. SoCal Mutual Bank robbery scenes, using W 98th. st. doors)
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Box office
- Budget
- $9,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,533,324
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $55,347
- Dec 30, 2018
- Gross worldwide
- $5,580,940
- Runtime2 hours 1 minute
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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