Destroyer (2018)

Movie
Original title	Destroyer
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	2018
length	122 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Karyn Kusama
script	Phil Hay , ; Matt Manfredi
production	Fred Berger , ; Phil Hay , ; Matt Manfredi
music	Theodore Shapiro
camera	Julie Kirkwood
cut	Plummy Tucker
occupation
	Nicole Kidman : Erin Bell; Sebastian Stan : Chris; Toby Kebbell : Silas; Tatiana Maslany : Petra; Bradley Whitford : DiFranco; Natalia Cordova-Buckley : Detective Gavras; Scoot McNairy : Ethan; Toby Huss : Gil Lawson; Beau Knapp : Jay; James Jordan : Toby; Zach Villa : Arturo; Jade Pettyjohn : Shelby; Shamier Anderson : Antonio;

Destroyer is a crime and action film by Karyn Kusama that premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2018, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2018 , and in US cinemas on December 25, 2018 came.

action

LAPD detective Erin Bell was smuggled into a gang 16 years ago as an undercover agent, but the operation got fatally out of hand. Now the mother of a 16-year-old still works as a detective in Los Angeles but has a drinking problem. She looks broken and eaten by guilt, her colleagues despise her. When Silas, the leader of the gang from back then, appears again, she tries to face her past and bring him down.

production

Directed by Karyn Kusama . The script was written by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi .

The film had its world premiere on August 31, 2018 at the Telluride Film Festival and was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2018 . In October 2018, a screening took place at the London Film Festival before the film was released in US cinemas on December 25, 2018. The cinema release in Germany - where it was shown at the Fantasy Filmfest in 2018 - was March 14, 2019.

synchronization

The German dubbing was based on a dialogue book and directed by Harald Wolff on behalf of Cinephon Filmproduktions GmbH, Berlin .


actor	role	German voice
Nicole Kidman	Erin Bell	Petra Barthel
Toby Kebbell	Silas	Nico Sablik
Tatiana Maslany	Petra	Anna Grisebach
Sebastian Stan	Chris	Björn Schalla
Scoot McNairy	Ethane	Matthias Deutelmoser
Bradley Whitford	DiFranco	Till Hagen
Toby Huss	Gil Lawson	Frank Röth
James Jordan	Toby	Tommy Morgenstern
Beau Knapp	Jay	Ricardo Richter
Jade Pettyjohn	Shelby	Vivien Gilbert
Shamier Anderson	Antonio	Christoph Banks
Zach Villa	Arturo	Karim El Kammouchi
Natalia Cordova-Buckley	Detective Gavras	Cornelia Waibel

reception

Age rating

In the USA, the film received an R rating from the MPAA , which corresponds to a rating of 17 and over. In Germany it was approved by the FSK from the age of 12.

Reviews

The film convinced 73% of the Rotten Tomatoes critics and received an average rating of 6.67 out of a possible 10 points.

In the online edition of Die Zeit , Barbara Schweizerhof notes that it is considered normal for male investigators in films to appear drunk and tired of life. A similarly run-down woman, however, does not easily find audience sympathy. Schweizerhof notes on Destroyer , who has received mixed reviews since its premiere, the feminine point of view and the will not to appear nostalgic under any circumstances.

In Variety , Peter Debruge finds that Destroyer lifts the limits of what an actress can show on screen. You now have the opportunity to create a character that is difficult, mean and almost completely independent.

Rolling Stone's Peter Travers writes about Nicole Kidman that the actress has never looked so devastated and shows the audience "how much her psyche has been hurt."

The film service assesses the film as an “exciting mixture of an action-packed police thriller and an oppressive portrait of a severely traumatized woman who is struggling with the ghosts of the past” and praises Nicole Kidman's “extraordinary [it]” play.