Destroyer (2018)

If Johnny Utah grew old, had a kid, got grey hair and wrinkles and in older, less attractive age still hadn't managed to bring Bodhi to justice, you'd end up with Destroyer, a movie which flicks back and forwards between Nicole Kidman's Erin Bell's past (Point Break days of dangerous deep undercover cop work in LA - she's infiltrating a bank robbing gang) and her present (a grim life as a limping sad sack who still hasn't brought to justice the starey charimatic Lord Byron/Bodhi who exerts an influence over others so great, deep undercover police work is necessary (we learn absolutely nothing else about him) - these flashes backwards and forward are timed to distract audiences from implausibilities, improbabilities, gaping holes and nonsense in the plot, meaning this bleak Point Break manages to be a fairly engaging crime thriller.

★★★☆☆

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Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

This superhero action thriller on a mega-scale makes a couple of mistakes: 1) teaming the hero, Captain America alongside team mates with abilities that seem to one-up his own, and 2) ending with a glimpse of what is to come in the next inevitable instalment, leaving viewers exhausted at the thought of the whole tumultuous thing happening all over again, only with villains with a different skin...but, still, this is a very good superhero action from Marvel.

★★★☆☆

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