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3.5/4
Logan D. McCoy - wrote on 06/12/2019
Creating striking parallels between the 1967 race riots and modern racial tension, "Detroit" is brutally topical.
Rating of
3/4
Leslie - wrote on 06/14/2018
My biggest gripe about "Detroit" is that the screenplay fails to fully develop its four characters featured on the movie poster. Instead the intersection of Melvin Dismukes (John Boyega), Greene (Anthony Mackie), Larry Reed (Algee Smith) and Philip Krauss (Will Poulter) occurs with little background information to flesh out any of the characters. Despite this, John Boyega turns in a solid performance, displaying flashes of Sidney Poitier (think Virgil Tibbs from "In the Heat of the Night") and Denzel Washington. Will Poulter is convincing as the dastardly horrific, torturous police officer Philip Krauss.
Rating of
3.5/4
Indyfreak - wrote on 01/30/2018
Kathryn Bigelow's harrowing docudrama is a relentless and unnerving film that pulls no punches when recreating the Detroit riots of 1967. The film does take a while to build up to the frightening incident at the Algiers Motel during the violence where police officers terrorized the guests after a raid gone wrong. The cops' monstrous leader is played by Will Poulter while John Boyega plays a sensitive security guard trying to serve as a wedge between the guests and Poulter's wrath.
