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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Ben-Hur (2016)

Forget the chariot race - it's essentially the same - and go see this Ben-Hur remake for its spectacular slave galley scenes...and because it is a very entertaining movie despite a way too pat finish, way too much Days of Our Lives hair, and way too long a runtime even at half the length of the original.

★★★☆☆

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