Post by Mr Dedlock on Jan 25, 2019 19:44:43 GMT
British and Irish press giving destroyer some fine reviews, almost universal praise for Kidman!
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It’s a bit of a scrappy mystery, then. Still, it all hangs on a career-best performance from a committed and frighteningly convincing Kidman. That woman is in the form of her life at the minute. Seek it out.
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n everything at the minute, and uniformly brilliant, Nicole Kidman pushes herself into new and dark territory in Karyn Kusama’s unflinching crime drama.
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For such a renowned and known actress, it’s a remarkably unrecognisable performance, balancing internal fury that’s “burned a circuit in her brain” under the guise of an impressive physical transformation. An burned down cop in an urban crime saga is not a role that many would pair with the Australian megastar, but this great bit of casting has gifted Kidman a career-best turn.
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Far more compelling is Nicole Kidman’s intense, bruising performance as a burned-out detective trying to atone for past mistakes in Destroyer, an ingeniously structured Bad Lieutenant-esque procedural directed with real punch by indie veteran Karyn Kusama (Girl Fight). Set in Los Angeles, the film opens with the discovery of a dead body, but it’s Kidman’s body that commands the screen as she commits to the consequences of her soul-sick character’s hard-living life. Face ravaged by years of regret-dulling alcoholism, Kidman’s physical transformation – reinforced by flashbacks to her character Erin’s first undercover assignment – is plausibly rooted in someone whose tragic flaws have accumulated into a life full of pain. The film comes on like a slow-burn character study of a morally compromised anti-hero, but while it does that stuff well, it also transforms into a pretty hard-rocking bank-robbery movie, with Kidman – machine-gun in hand – proving a formidable bad-ass.
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Kidman’s acting, though, has a rawness and a ferocious honesty about it. The film may be flawed and uneven but it provides a platform for its ever-versatile star to give one of her strongest and least characteristic performances.
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Should the Oscars expand the number of nominees in the acting categories, as has been done with Best Picture?
The latest missed-the-cut performance to make the case for is Nicole Kidman in police thriller Destroyer. It really would be a crime if this was her only collaboration with Girlfight director Karyn Kusama.
Looking and moving like the living dead, Kidman has transformed into one of the great female anti-heroes as Erin Bell, a Los Angeles homicide detective at the bottom of the bottle.
The latest missed-the-cut performance to make the case for is Nicole Kidman in police thriller Destroyer. It really would be a crime if this was her only collaboration with Girlfight director Karyn Kusama.
Looking and moving like the living dead, Kidman has transformed into one of the great female anti-heroes as Erin Bell, a Los Angeles homicide detective at the bottom of the bottle.
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Nicole Kidman gets down and dirty in this exceptional and intense revenge driven neo-noir thriller.
Looking haggard and drawn while offering us a complex mess of damaged vulnerability, and grim determination, the Aussie actress eschews glamour and the audience affections to deliver the strongest and most interesting performance of her career.
Looking haggard and drawn while offering us a complex mess of damaged vulnerability, and grim determination, the Aussie actress eschews glamour and the audience affections to deliver the strongest and most interesting performance of her career.
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