Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

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.

For me, I loved the film overall...as long as I pay too close attention to it. I felt that I enjoyed the movie more when I wasn't noticing the bad acting and other minor details that annoyed me. One example was the choice at about 40 minutes into the movie. They really messed with the voice of the guy singing in public, it was so obvious that it sounded like it was dubbed over. Maybe it was? Either way, it sounded bad and little things like that throughout the movie just took away form the overall quality of the film as a whole. Great story though and filming looked good!

As a whole, 'Detroit (2017)' is too unfocused and too big for what it is trying to achieve, with the first act standing almost entirely alone from the following two and feeling sort of superfluous in the overall narrative. The central set-piece - and even, to a lesser extent, its much slower aftermath - is compelling, vigorous stuff that's unrelenting in its tension and urgency, though. It never just feels like one race against another, but rather humans placed in a situation where good and evil are shown in shades of grey. If you're even remotely human, the brutality and oppression of the piece will make your blood boil and the flick pulls no punches when it comes to the injustice on display. The lack of any comeuppance almost feels like a lack of narrative closure - you truly want to see the perpetrators punished, and this alone is an achievement - but instead it simply emulates the messy and unfulfilling way that life often works. While the story mightn't be entirely accurate to the real-life scenario (the events of which were never accurately established in court), it does work as an examination of what could have happened in a terrible situation that took the lives of three young men, one which is still scarily relevant today. 7/10