Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

An action-packed slog

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

This movie has about as much in common with the Detroit riots as the rapper Krispy Cream has to the evolution of the hip hop industry. Quick disclaimer there were some racist cops involved in the Detroit riots but not comparable to the insanity in the south. 1) focuses on an incident at a motel rather than the riots as a whole. Keep in mind that horrible actions that these police officers took were in part true. Next look up the white girls in the motel they were both prostitutes and had a boat load of felony charges against them prior to the incident. Then look up the people being accused of shooting at the cops with a "toy gun" (starter gun which can be used as an actual weapon) one of the assaulted a teacher violently. 2) that horrible cartoon at the beginning. They might as well have started back in the 1400s with this one. Massive propaganda and promoting fear for whites. 3) over all just a smear towards the law enforcement of America. Absolute disappointment I could go on for hours. 1/10 if you found this movie appalling and horrific and that everything was true in this film then I've got another great suggestion for you it's called Lord of the Rings because the reality of the events portrayed in this film are borderline fiction.

Greetings from Lithuania."Detroit" (2017) is a very good movie from start till finish. It is superbly acted, directed and written true story. The great duet Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal teamed up again after two masterful and one of the most two memorable movies of the past decade "The Hurt Locker" and "Zero Dark Thirty". While "Detroit" is not in the same league as two above mentioned titles, yet their collaboration is clearly visible in every scene.Overall, "Detroit" a gritty, intense and very involving thriller based on a very true story. A very solid movie all around.

Race tensions are running high in 1967 Detroit with the National Guard joining city and state police in trying to quell riots and looting. The sound of shots result in the police bursting into the Algiers Motel, killing one man, and subjecting a group of others (including two white girls) to an ordeal including constant imminent fear of death. Most are beaten, one of the girls is stripped, and two more men are killed. In the aftermath, three police (and an innocent black security guard) are tried for murder.Katherine Bigelow has made a dense, gripping and eye-opening drama from a an incident which actually happened, but where the details are dependent on trial transcripts and recollections. What we see on screen is representational rather than literal. This dilutes the dramatic impact a little, since you can't be confident that this is actually what happened. It does seem likely, though. It is harrowing stuff thanks to Bigelow's direction, a fine script (Mark Boal), and superb performances from all concerned, but especially young British actor Will Poulter as out-of-control cop Krauss. This young man has got better and better in everything I've seen him in, and this film must surely see him nominated for an Oscar.This is neither a short (143 minutes) nor an easy watch, but it is a film I'm glad I saw.

I was a child during the hell on earth Detroit summer of 1967. I don't remember it. Acclaimed Director Kathryn Bigelow has done one helluva job recreating the powder keg that exploded over a half century ago in the based-on-actual-events drama "Detroit". It is profoundly difficult to process that a human being could be as recklessly racist as these rogue cops are. Will Poulter is particularly chilling as the brazen ring leader. That these white officers of the law could treat mostly black suspects as lives that scarcely matter is sickening. Yet, as the disturbing courtroom scenes reveal toward the end of the film, how do we know?