Detroit: Racial Tension in USA

Rating: 8/10 (29 August 2017)

This a powerful and very tense documentary drama, Cert. 15 for violence and language.
Based on true events of the 1967 Detroit riots, where the police and The National Guard are called in to manage the riots and specifically the horrific situation at the Algiers Motel.
One of the guests fires a starting pistol out of one of the motel first floor windows, the police believe this to be a sniper and search the building.
We see the incident escalates when Will Poulter's very brutal and out of control police officer character gets involved. The majority of the action takes place in the corridor and a room of The Algiers Motel. The police lineup, interrogate and torture the guests one by one for a confession of who the 'sniper' is. You will find some of the racially tense scenes hard to watch.
The audience are put in the guests shoes and appreciate their helpless circumstances. During the interrogations some guests are shot (murdered) by the police but the responsible officers are never convicted due to technicalities, makes you realise that U.S. society hasn't progressed very far in the last 50 years. Highly recommended.