For anyone who's been waiting to see the True Facts about Detroit's 1967 Riot . . .

Rating: 8/10 (16 August 2017)

. . . DETROIT is NOT your movie. However, if you want to see the finest example yet of the dangerous Alt.Left Propaganda Machine (about which Leader Trump warned us during his Trump Tower News Conference yesterday, 8/15/17), DETROIT is your ticket. There's about a 50-50 chance that Director Kathryn Bigelow's False Flick will inspire the Third Major Detroit Riot in 75 Years this summer. A well-known national corporation recently assigned me (due to my Rep for fearlessness) a trouble-shooting task involving me driving down literally every inch of paved street contained within this so-called city's 39 square miles. Soon my catalytic converter was sawed off my vehicle while parked on Seven Mile Road in BROAD DAYLIGHT! When I stopped for gas nearby a little later that afternoon, a loitering thug (who looked like one of the lead cast members of DETROIT) threatened to kill me as I tried to Pre-pay while he was urinating on the OUTSIDE of the station's front wall! That was just Day One. (I'll probably write a book about the rest of this assignment soon.) Arson and looting remain the Primary Occupations of many if not most Detroiters, and Detroit's local Metro Times newspaper documents a populace continuing to seethe with the Seeds of Violent Insurrection being stirred up by Alt.Left screeds like DETROIT. Director Bigelow inexplicably tries to Fan the Flames of Civil Unrest by cherry-picking a few historical facts and Detroit Landmarks to sprinkle into her made-in-Boston concoction of Disinformation. (Obviously, SHE thought that HER personal safety would be compromised IF she kept her cast and crew among the Ruins of Today's Real Life Detroit, losing THEIR catalytic converters and being threatened with THEIR own deaths by thugs urinating on the fronts of businesses in broad daylight!)
The opening minutes of DETROIT are chock full of factual errors, giving perceptive viewers a clear warning that whatever follows is a collection of Fake News and Misinformation diligently massaged by Director Bigelow and her Hench People to rouse up, bamboozle, and exploit the Young, the Prejudiced, and the Ill-informed. For instance, Bigelow indicates that a Detroit Tigers home baseball game is taking place on Day Three of the Riot (that game was actually postponed). She also pictures the Supremes performing at Detroit's Fox Theater that same night (patently Untrue!). Bigelow flagrantly invents scenes showing BOTH Michigan's State Police AND America's National Guard fleeing Detroit's Algiers Motel as yellow-bellied cowards in the face of a single Detroit rogue cop. She besmirches the esteemed memory of U.S. Presidential Candidate and Michigan Governor George Romney by editing an archival footage clip to make him sound like a total idiot. She shows John Conyers, a Rabble Rouser in Congress from Detroit Then and Now, but neglects to reveal that it was bozos such as Big John that forced Michigan to carve itself into unwieldy jigsaw puzzle piece Congressional Districts to minimize that harm done to America by Conyers and his ilk to just one-third of what DETROIT's deplorable demographics would otherwise produce.
You've got to give DETROIT director Bigelow kudos for so effectively stirring up the Alt.Left by ripping apart the scar tissue over old wounds. It puts one in mind of that Great Propaganda Piece by ANOTHER female movie director, Leni Riefenstahl (aka, "Hitler's Videographer"). Though Ms. Riefenstahl's TRIUMPH OF THE WILL set new standards for epic film-making, it also started World War Two, resulting in 100 million deaths (including those of 6 million Jews). Hollywood doubtless will shower its Alt.Left darling Ms. Bigelow for her Racist Hatchet Job with a slew of Oscars. Let's just hope that DETROIT's death toll does not surpass the tally racked up by TRIUMPH OF THE WILL.