Detroit

Directed with an intense, frenetic pace, the entire movie feels like a powder keg leading to disaster, graced by strong performances from all involved but particularly Poulter as a police officer deserving of the viewer's hatred.

Although I was a teenager at this period of time I knew nothing about this incident, that's most probably because I was born in the UK, I wasn't planning to watch this movie but just happened to be watching the TV channel when it came on, and I must say that I almost changed channels during the first 10 minutes as I thought it would not be of interest to me, but I'm glad that I stayed with it because it was a very gripping movie with great actors and an edge of the seat story, which made me wonder halfway through if this was a true story, which was proven to be true at the end of this film, I was happily surprised to see that the film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and I thought no wonder it was such a good movie, as I really appreciated "The Hurt Locker" I recommend this movie as it shows why good people should always try to speak up and do something when wrongs are committed by anyone and especially by others in powerful positions.

Detroit is a film takes its time, sets its scene well. Its glossy and powerful when it wants to be and it's quiet and speaks for itself when it needs to. It's a surprisingly impactful and energetic powderkeg of a film. There's something great about the sets and locations, with their dirty, ugly, boring authenticity. Tied to this is the great minor cast, with the yellow teeth, and the plain faces; the sort of ordinariness of them all, that goes along with Boal's elegantly simple script where it feels anything can happen at any time. Boyega is dynamite, his raw, bare constraint as an actor and his character's struggles moving me to tears throughout. Bigelow's camera is always motivated so despite the film's length, you look away and you're likely to miss something. The disconnect and then sudden connection between stories has a classic movie feel, more than any Bigelow, Detroit is an underrated masterclass of editing. Detroit is a great film, but be warned, it's a horror, a horror where truth is even more horrifying than fiction and the trauma is etched on the faces of all involved, and maybe even on the soul of America. And this was only 1967.

It's a bit too long and doesn't quite do enough to give us a proper feel for the characters, but thanks to gripping performances from a great cast and proficient directing from Katheryn Bigelow, ‘Detroit' still manages to tell a difficult story and is an appropriately tough watch, particularly come the half-way point which kicks off a horrifyingly lengthy ordeal for a group of young black men.

Great piece of history. Good acting and execution

In the summer of 1967 the police are breaking up illegal late night parties held in the private residence of the mostly black community in Detroit. As residents are thrown out onto the streets and packed into the back of police vans local tensions begin to rise resulting in a mob mentality taking over the city as shops are looted, cars set alight and any appearance from the police is met with violence. A group of residents find themselves hiding out in the Algiers hotel where they party throughout the night until someone fires a toy gun out of the window alerting attention from the police. What results is a siege from a small group of police officers who use brutal force and scare tactics to uncover the identity of the gunman who they believe the residents are hiding. Detroit was a well acted and pretty tense film that brings to life one of the darkest chapters of civil unrest in American history. Kathryn Bigelow begins the film, reporting events in the form of captured footage and news reports which works well as a tension builder. The stand out performances were from Will Poulter as the racist cop leading the siege against the residents of the Algiers and John Boyega as the conflicted security man who is forced to work at with the cops while also being witness to their brutal methods

Devastating. And great.

The kids that experienced that tragedy (both living and dead) are brave. Brave to come forward to invoke change.

I just watched "Detroit", the movie that talks about the brutal police shooting of blacks inside the Algiers Motel in 1967. When I think of the news over the last two years and of how many cops had mercilessly gunned down blacks during that time and got declared innocent each and every time, I have to realize that nothing has changed in the last 50 years and black lives still don't matter anything in the United States. Police can seemingly still do whatever they want without ever having to face any consequences. And they call it a democracy. That's a real bad joke!! And this surely won't change in the near future. Really sad.

Phenomenal, powerful and raw filmmaking by director Kathryn Bigelow yet again. She proves she is one of the best directors in the business today. Another heart pounding, raw and riveting recounting of the events from 1967 Detroit. The actors all deliver fine convincing peformances along with an overall tangible quality and deep, deep primal fear, apprehension and axniety about itself on the high tension and subject matter of race and the abuse of power over those whom are rendered without.