Emotional & Moving

Rating: 7/10 (6 August 2017)

I saw "Detroit", starring John Boyega-Star Wars:The Force Awakens, 24:Live Another Day_tv; Will Poulter-The Revenant, We're the Millers; Kaitlyn Dever-Last Man Standing_tv, Bad Teacher and Anthony Mackie-The Captain America & Avengers movies, Real Steel.
This is based on a true story that took place in July of 1967 in Detroit, Michigan. It's directed by Kathryn Bigelow-Zero Dark Thirty, The Hurt Locker & Point Break, the original 1991 version. It tells the story of police brutality, racism and riots, all of which happened much too often during this time period. John plays a security guard that gets involved with local police, state police and the National Guard in a shooting incident that happened at the Algiers Motel-it was an eleven dollar a day motel so most of the clients were hookers or drug dealers. The local police-mostly white-had just raided a bar and arrested almost everyone there-mostly black. This led to riots throughout the city, which led to the Algiers incident. Will is the racist white police officer that leads the charge on the motel after hearing gun shots-he thinks it's a sniper-and rounds up the occupants-mostly black with 2 white females. Kaitlyn is one of the females. Anthony plays a returning war vet that was in the motel. If you are unfamiliar with the incident, it had several deaths, brutal police beatings and a trial. Oh yeah, they never found a gun. It's rated "R" for violence, language and sexual content-including nudity-and has a running time of 2 hours & 23 minutes. I don't think I would buy it on DVD. It is an emotional and moving story but one viewing is enough. It would be a good rental.