I love the D, so I hate that I disliked this film.

Rating: 3/10 (7 August 2017)

People are writing that it's mostly fictitious, which actually makes sense because the fact that so many people were remaining silent and taking a beating for a moron who caused the incident and was already dead was absolutely baffling.
I'm white and from the Detroit suburbs. I've lived in L.A. for the last ten years. I know that this film is about a tragedy that occurred during the '60s (when I wasn't even alive), but I want to state that the Detroit and Michigan police in general--black, white, Asian, etc.-- were FAR kinder to me and much more scrupulous than the scum who patrol the streets in Los Angeles (almost totally white and hispanic), which is another thing that annoys me tremendously-- the racism of assuming that American white cops are supremacists who never abuse white citizens.
This film is also obscenely long. I have made several short films, so I knew precisely which parts should have been cut out-- everything from meaningless shots to forced acting.
Will Poulter is a remarkable actor, though. He was great in The Revenant, and he steals the show in this film. Anthony Mackie is an awesome talent as well.
But overall, I just couldn't justify sitting in a theater for almost 2 1/2 hours while I and everyone around me had the same thought during 2 of those hours-- JUST TELL THEM THAT THE DEAD IDIOT DID IT.