 Hello everyone, I got a brand new movie review for you guys today and today we're discussing the Cole Kimmons new film Destroyer where it takes place in modern day LA and this film is directed by Karen Kusama and written by Phil Hay and Matt Marifride. Now I wanted to say these names for one big reason because they did make a film a couple years back and that film is called The Invitation. If you've never seen The Invitation, might I say I think it's still on Netflix. Go search it out. It's one of the films that has a very sluggish pace to it but by the end my jaw was on the floor with some of the revelations that this film portrays and with that said I was looking forward to Destroyer because of the people behind the screen and because of the people in front of the camera where you got Nicole Kidman, you have Sebastian Stan, you have Toby Kebel, I mean this is a great cast and again it takes place in modern day LA, it's about a cop, crime thriller investigation to it and we haven't really gotten a crime cop film this year which is kind of nice and Destroyer kind of feels that void for me. Now again, I'll be flat out honest, I'm a little bit disappointed in this film, doesn't mean I didn't like this film, I still thought it was good but I was expecting for this film to be great or even excellent but I found the film to be good and to be fine in that fact but one of the big portrayals and one of the big pros for this film is Nicole Kidman. I've been saying this for quite a while especially within this year is that Nicole Kidman is kind of finding these nice little strides in the back half of her career lately where she takes on these roles that are very different to her but it gives her the most stuff to chew on and most stuff to kind of do within this role and I will go as far as say I think Destroyer is one of the best performances of this year and might as well be Nicole Kidman's best performance of her career and I really do mean that. One of the reasons being is that she transforms into this character that she becomes. There wasn't one point in time where I was like that's Nicole Kidman and it wasn't just because of the makeup and the prosthetics but really it was looking at her and just how she embodies this character. If I didn't know she was in the film I would have never known she was in it and I think she did such a good job in this role portraying this cop who just has a lot of horrible things with her in her past that you do start to go throughout but man it was it's unique her performance and I don't think a performance has been this chameleonized since Jake Gyllenhaal within Nightcrawler which is nice how that took place also in LA but I think it's nice and I love seeing these kind of LA crime thrillers I think kind of works for the feeling and I like the tone of the whole film I like what Catherine Kusama did with the direction with this movie it always kept me intrigued with what was going to go on but that's one of also my minor gripes about the film even though I was intrigued about what was going on I never felt invested I never got gripped on put your seatbelt on you're in for this ride and throughout the whole entire film I was sitting there I was like alright if this something big happens at the end this film's gonna grab me and pull me and just kind of like the invitation and the whole film was waiting and I was waiting and I was waiting and I was still intrigued and certain things happened I was like that's cool that's cool this is awesome let's keep going hell let's chug along okay it's a little slow here it's a little slow here alright let's go on let's get past this subplot let's get past this subplot and it just never hit that thing where I was like that's the moment don't get me wrong there's some great moments in here but this is very much more about a character study than more the story that's going on and don't get me wrong by the ending I was like oh that's cool because the story structure is actually very unorthodox it's it's different flashes back here and there and sometimes it gets a little bit confusing but by the end I was like oh that's that's actually really cool that they did that again it never grabbed me even though the direction was strong and the script was good it just felt the movie was slow and I feel like there was more needed to it there's a couple subplots in here that I feel like could have been a little bit written out I think they do contain some good things about it but I just never again was invested I was intrigued but never invested and in the end I found myself being a little bit disappointed the story has one of the best performances of the year within Nicole Kim and probably giving the best performance of her career but going again the direction strong the script is strong at times but a little bit sluggish at the pacing and some of the subplots I feel like could have been completely written out and weren't needed for the overall arc of the story maybe for the overall arc of her character it's definitely an intriguing film it's a beautiful looking film at that some of the shots in here are outstandingly beautiful and again it does have a really haunting score and a great sound mixing and sound editing came out destroy a bit disappointed especially coming off the invitation the guys haven't seen the invitation please go search it out but again if you're intrigued to see the story I do still recommend checking it out in theaters especially if you want to see one of the best performances of this year that is Nicole Kidman's performance and sure I don't think she'll be nominated I feel like this film is going to go kind of under the radar with all the other big films coming out but still it's worth checking out guys so with all that said I'm gonna give the story a C-plus know what your guys thoughts are on to destroy have you guys seen it have you not have you checked out the other film invitation I was talking about earlier let's talk about it down below in the comments and guys also if you guys are new here and you guys want to check out some movies early go hit up sandwich on films also down below because that's how you guys can get into those you know also check out some movies and even some movie reviews but guys of course until next time stay class