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Mar 09, 2020ReaganLam rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This movie is a must see. Saw it on the big screen three years ago. Based on true events, true crime, and true grit! The film had me interested every single bit. No boring spot or space at all in this movie. Great performances as well done…
Sep 15, 2019dirtbag rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Bigelow spends a lot of time shooting in the dark and using a handheld camera..... both of these things I find annoying and distracting. Overall a good movie, but might have been even better with a different director.
Sep 08, 2019voisjoe1_0 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I read a book on the subject with a title something like "The Algiers Motel Incident" shortly after it happened. Having been a survivor of a smaller similar "incident", I can testify that this whole thing rings true. My lawyer told me, I'm…
Feb 08, 2019BPDaegan rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
I made the personal discovery of director Kathyrn Bigelow through "Strange Days" and later enjoyed what came with "The Hurt Locker" and other films of her's. When I saw the preview for this film it looked interesting; when I saw the…
Dec 02, 2018ABou1391 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Liked the fact that this movie didn't absolve the Detroit police department, the military, or the national guard. Too often films about the armed institutions of the state, even films made by black directors (*cough* Black Klansman…
Jul 29, 2018lukasevansherman rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
Deeply unsettling, deeply problematic film from Kathyrn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal, who also did "The Hurt Locker" and "Zero Dark Thirty." As many have pointed out, the torture of the black characters borders on exploitive, and you do…
Jun 25, 2018uncommonreader rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Based on real events 51 years ago, unfortunately, this is still a timely film.
Jun 21, 2018avocadotree rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I had to skip through some of the motel parts. That scene wouldn't end and it was terrorizing. Then the ending is without justice. It's messed up. This is difficult to comment on. Watch if you can stand seeing police brutality and the main…
Jun 04, 2018akirakato rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow in 2017 based on the Algiers Motel incident during Detroit's 1967 Riot, this American docudrama delves into the tragic indident. Superb are the performances of all the actors who really show the fear and…
May 13, 2018duane767 rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Brits continue to play better Americans than Americans do and a sordid story from 60s Detroit hits the silver screen with its sadness, violence, and horror. Worth a watch but it may not the 'happily ever after' ending that you might…
Apr 27, 2018GiovanniS rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
This is definitely a horror movie in the sense it made me feel part of the action that was going on. The movie set a very strong atmosphere that put you into the moment and made you feel the pathos and dread from the moment the Dramatics…
Apr 26, 2018mr_chocolate rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
This two hour and fourteen minute film did seem long, and I think that it could have told the same unsettling fact based events of 1967 Detroit riots and of the three murders at the Algiers Hotel, in a shorter time. This is an important…
Apr 23, 2018richibi rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
a stirring, and probably important, representation, indeed indictment, of an event that took place in Detroit that many years ago - powerful, but long
Apr 21, 2018BertBailey rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Surely one of the best flicks of its time, Bigelow shows yet again that she's one of the great directors working today. The story, acting, script all shine. The verité cinematography never gets in the way of the dramatic proceedings,…
Apr 03, 2018LauraSteinert rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
I gave this 3 stars although I couldn't finish watching it. It is tense, dark, full of violence. I found it too upsetting to watch because it is a true story. How could a commander put a cop back on the street moments after telling him he…
Mar 29, 2018
Cops can be just as dirty as the people the come up against but who protects us from them? Most of the people that were on those streets should not have been there. And the dirty police well thank God all of them are not like that and…
Mar 26, 2018
The police are the only people who have ever intentionally aimed guns at me. I have always been unarmed. If I was not a white boy, I am sure I'd have been shot on several occasions.
Mar 20, 2018Nooksack20 rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Dramatization of the Detroit riots of 1967 centered around the deaths of three black men at the Algiers Motel. The cops are the bad guys in this version of the events. Pretty disgusting time in the history of Detroit.
Mar 18, 2018
“This may be the point that racist violence reduces its victims to an atrocious nothingness. But the unrelenting atrocity, so lacking in dramatic or emotional modulation, becomes numbing.” I copied that from Peter Rainer of the Christian…
Mar 05, 2018bobbles1 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Gets you in the guts, we were calling for justice with outrage nearly all the way through.....and loud! Kathryn Bigelow knows how to put a movie together, this is one good movie.....
Mar 02, 2018nidus rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I don’t think this movie was only about racism. When I was a young white boy, I had run-ins with the police similar to what was seen in this movie. Not nearly as intense of course – I was never struck or shot, but the Minneapolis police…
Feb 28, 2018noahspap rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Almost too painful to watch. Heartbreaking story based on real events.
Feb 26, 2018jimg2000 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
It is not the story of Motown Detroit but about the climate of racism in 1967 when "This was a city that at the point had grown to nearly 40% African American and yet had a police force that was 95% white" and the trial in 1970 by "an…
Feb 19, 2018greatflicks rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
A very heavy movie to watch. It reminded me how much things have changed but that there are still racial issues. I was 25 when the Detroit riots were taking place and the news was not like it is today. The only news we paid attention…
Feb 12, 2018StudCane rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Very well done - very hard movie to watch. The reality of this event makes me sick to my stomach, be prepared.