 kids what's the matter with you yeah let's talk about this one my name is brennan Keith Avery and this is just my opinion all right guys welcome back first I just want to thank you again for tuning in for my opinion slash review for Detroit I really do appreciate it we're gonna get into this one I have a lot to say before we do that help your boy out go ahead and click that subscribe button right now so become one of my subscribers get all the content that I have to provide you can also click that bell get notified help me reach my first milestone of 1000 subscribers and also click the like button let's see if this video can get 100 likes all right let's get into this movie Detroit and I'm just gonna tell you that this was a hard movie to watch but I recommend everyone go see it at least one time and if you did not know and I'll be honest I didn't know much about this story myself and I mean I've heard about the Detroit riots before but I've never heard of you know any of the details and you know what not and I really learned more when I first saw the trailer for this movie especially with John Boyega popping up you know a number of months ago this is a true story well loosely based on the true story and I'll just go ahead and say at the very end of the movie there was a subtitle or a critic that came up and said that regarding the true story regarding the nature you know of this story that you know majority of it is true but every every detail you know was not inserted in the script even when they had trials back 50 years ago because this is making the 50th anniversary there was a lot of evidence that wasn't you know admitted in court they also didn't get all the witnesses and testimonies and whatnot so a little bit of it is a I don't want to say fantasy but it's a dramatization not a reenactment but you know they may have stressed the truth here and there just a little bit as far as that's concerned there are some things that I did appreciate them kind of you know tweaking this truth a little bit and there are some things that I was not a fan of and I would touch on that the movie is being directed by Catherine billy billy bigelow I believe she is she was also she was also married to James Cameron a while ago she won the best picture for the Hurt Locker I believe in 2009 and I love that family did deserve it or whatever I believe it may have been in 2010 because I think it was you know I think it was like the Hurt Locker versus Avatar you know so it's like you know you know exes are going against each other but that film is great she did that she also did zero dark 30 which got a lot of attention as well five Academy Award nominations you know five best picture or whatever so she you know she knows what she's doing she knows how to make a true compelling film that will get the conversation going because this movie will get a lot of people talking and like I said before this takes place in 1967 in Detroit majority of the main story plot focuses on an incident that happened one night at the Algiers Motel but the film is also divided into three segments it also it really does feel like three movies the very the very beginning of the film it gives you illustrations on why tensions are so hot in Detroit and why people are mad and riding and upset rightfully so the second part is that the actual incident at the Algiers Hotel and then we get the aftermath just to wrap things all up now even in the first part of this film I really wasn't feeling it at first but later on in the film I became to appreciate it because they're trying to give you a little snippets here and there of what it's like to live in Detroit just wherever it gets you it lets you get to know the black people and also gets you let you know the white people it lets you know get to know the good cops and also the evil racist cops or whatever that were alive back then and still are alive and prevalent today unfortunately so you get all of that but then all these characters come together you know in the Algiers Hotel when all this BS is going on the beginning of the film helped because it lets you know who the characters are and what they believe in what you made it lets you let you know what they believed in and what they did not believe in you know so they did a great job there now one thing that did time me off towards the very beginning of the film is whenever given these illustrations these images these pictorial images of Detroit they didn't really do I mean I understand why the riots was going on but let's just pretend like an alien aliens from out of space just came in they didn't know they never heard of Earth you know they didn't know nothing and there was like oh wow you know why why did this why did this happen they were doing 1967 why would the black people writing you know if they if they were to want that if they were want that question answered from this movie they the movie didn't do a good job of just telling why the riots started just kind of like you know black people was mad because of this and I mean that would have been fine but they use a particular scene to that took place right before all the BS started happening and that wasn't a I mean the scene was fine but when it transitioned to the next I was like okay is that the scene the child are using to kind of like you know ignite the fire you know you know you could have you know did something better there you know it's kind of just like locking somebody up for littering you know throwing a piece of notebook paper that just doesn't match it just doesn't make sense but that's that's a small gripe right there the performances in the movie across the board were phenomenal and you know me being as a you know black man you know this didn't make me feel some type of way it did make me feel emotional I don't like my people getting beat on for no damn reason okay so you know if you don't like me talking about stuff like that then possibly this review is not for you but I said to say that all the performances across the board were phenomenal I mean you got Jason Mitchell you got this new dude that I never heard of called Algie Smith or something like that I'm gonna be paying attention to him of course you got Anthony Mackie you got that one girl that was from Game of Thrones and I watched Game of Thrones 2 but I can't remember her name and then you also got Will Polter too and I never took Will Polter seriously he's a guy that was in no idea I will I did start taking him seriously two years ago a year and a half ago in his role in the Revenant with Leonardo DiCaprio but I first saw him in The Maze Runner I'm like okay this is another guy and then I saw him in that Meet the Millers or whatever with I forgot the I forgot the guy's name or whatever but you know he was like a goofball character in that but I really gained respect for him in the Revenant that came out I think that was in December 2015 he did a great job in that film he also did a great job here in Detroit is just this despicable piece of crap police officer that my gosh you know you know you just want to swing on site when you see people like this just go up to him and you just strangle him to death you know that's just how disgusting his character was but he did a great job of portraying that character so you know I know this he was put you know playing a role and it's not really him but you know I were just sitting there watching I'm like man I wonder if these people are still alive you know but you know we could we could talk about that later I don't even know that Jason Mitchell he's the guy that played easy in the straight out of Compton he was also in Kong school Island that came out March of this year he you know at first I was like this is a you know dark black dude you know whatever and I was like wait a minute his voice I'm familiar and then I you know I start kept watching the movie of course I was like oh that's Jason Mitchell you know so you know of course you know he did a great job Anthony Mackie he kind of popped in in the middle of the film did a great job everybody everybody did a great job and I forgot the other guy's name he was the black guy actually let me look him up while I'm talking to you he was the black guy that played in that movie slight you know the magic I don't know I can talk the magician movie the magic with the illusions or whatever Jacob Lattimore that's his name I looked it up it popped in my head right before I looked it up but Jacob Lattimore and algae Smith you know put these two guys on your radar because I want them to if they want to be actors prominent actors for the rest of them lives I want to support them as much as I possibly can because you know they really you know a lot of people I well yeah they really did stay on the show and really just painted a real picture with the acting of the true horror that they went through through this through this incident this night and so those are the things I loved something else that I didn't there was like three key things that I just was not a fan of the first was just kind of how the right race riots started in this particular scene that they used to transition into that the next thing is is that I remember I think I saw the first trailer I was okay I'm in for this I don't want to see any more trailers but the trailers was just a teeny weeny bit misleading as to far as how the cops and the National Guard found the hotel and there was one character in the motel that was doing something over and over again that drew the attention of the police there and yes this was 50 years ago and I was not there and I am not you can't judge a true film off what the characters did you have to judge the movie on how the story was told but I will judge how what characters did because it like I said at the very beginning of this review the director admitted that a lot of this is dream is a dramatization and it's maybe not 100% factual maybe 99% or 95% but there was something that a character did in this movie that I just found completely unrealistic I do not know any sane black person that would ever do something this stupid to bring such attention to themselves that got them in this whole predicament because the way it was portrayed in the trailer I was like damn that is a very horrible sequence of events that you know were all the stars aligned and made these people come together to what I had to you know eat crap and be tortured for hours on end but there was one thing I was like what are you doing Jace Mitchell this is crazy I just don't find it realistic I don't want to spoil it for you here but you know it was one thing that this character did that drew the attention to the motel and in no scenario dream whether I'm asleep or alive or whatever can I see not even a black person doing well especially but anybody doing this it just that you know I guess the film the writers and his name is Boyle I forgot what is his name Mark Boyle I think that's his name Mark Boyle the writer for this film he may he may be on here too because he teams up with Catherine Bigelow a lot like I think he's written all of her films but it's not that important wait it's right here yeah Mark Boyle yeah it was just they had to give a reason to why the you know the copy you know nobody's gonna be just chilling in a motel and well actually that can happen chilling in a motel and people just harass you for no reason but they didn't want to portray in the film that way but they had to come up with a reason to why the cops you know infiltrated the hotel and started terrorizing these black people and the reason they gave it I just wasn't a fan of it and it really it really pissed me off but we got the intro out of this and we get to know the black people we really get to know the heart of Detroit and Motown and what's important to them especially Algie Smith and you know why what he wants to do with his life you know this guy you know he was a part of this group called the dramatics which is a real well they're not performing today but some of the you know people in the group was still alive today you know you know that we got to know him and you know this is no my god this wouldn't hurt a fly you know I'm saying he you know he's young he just wants to be successful you know be fruitful multiply nothing wrong with that you know but then one day he made a wrong turn somewhere but the film did a really good job of letting you know get to know the dramatics and what was important to them and you know he was just really passionate and just wanted to sing and you know make a living you know doing that so that's just one example how we got to know all the characters early on in the film whether they were good or they were bad but then we'll get to the second act where like I was just talking about things pop off at the Algiers motel and man man this this right here just like it took a lot of me it was exhausting it was tiring I was furious frustrated pissed off all that just I was out oh excuse me I'm so sorry so sorry I was also just so frustrated because I didn't know about this story before I'm just like why haven't I heard about this you know why why was this swept under the rug they're trying to hide the truth what's going on you know and I just wanted to know so more you know and it's just crazy you know just how things went down and I'm not gonna spoil anything for you here just you know beef for beat but you know for all night you know these black these black people and these white girls in the movie were just terrorized you know by these white racist race soldiers and no every cop in the movie was not bad and racist and all white people aren't racist or while white people aren't bad so if you one of them stupid people that's gonna throw some crap in the comments don't even start you know I will block you you know you may not care about that you smart as I am but seriously yeah majority white people in my cops are good but you know we do have the bad apples that need to be eradicated from the earth just eliminated in every shape and form possible and they were in this movie and just seeing them terrorize and take advantage of these poor kids and young adults was just you know it was a horrific thing to witness I'm glad I did when they said I don't want to witness it again but but yeah it was truly horrible and this the little research I did I had to stop because it was just too much but this you know I hear that this is a G version this movie is a G version of what really went down because some people don't care about race mixing white people sleeping with black people black people sleeping with white people or whatever you know if that's who you like that's who tickles your fancy you want to lay down with you know do that but some people in this world just lose their shit for it I know exactly why they're getting upset about it I'm not gonna talk about that though I'm just not I know why but hey man it is what it is and so and I said it to say that you know during a motel so when they're in this motel going from room to room they do find a room with a black man and white woman in there sleeping together and that drive that drives them crazy in this movie or in real life to happen 50 years ago and I do my research and you know I saw that they were like shoving objects of women's vaginas and up people's anuses just out of spite because they were mad that a black person was sleeping with a white person or whatever did they show that in the film no you know that's like super duper NC 17 but they did come close to the abuse in the carnage and what now this is not like a like a gore fest or anything like that no no there's actually not that much blood but it's just the way that the film is put together that just makes it so intense you feel like it's a bloodbath and that just goes to show how great Catherine Bigelow really is behind the camera and piecing together a compelling film you know as she did here but it's just crazy it's just crazy I was just sitting there just like oh my gosh like man you know this is a lot this you know this is you know this is crazy it's a great history lesson that I think everybody should you know take up a journey with and learn you know this type of thing should be in history books and if it was and I just wasn't paying attention to school that's my bad or whatever you know but that's the second egg I it's you know that they get terrorized in a motel and it's pretty horrible John Boyega I don't even speak about him you know he's great too and I want to talk to more black people about this movie because I want to know how they felt about his role I don't want to spoil it here but you know it's just so much to talk about as far as you know some people I'm pretty sure some people gonna feel that he was coming in the movie and if you don't know what that means look it up but given his position in 1967 and the role that you know he was playing this movie or whatever you know I don't blame him you know you know he is just trying to survive you know and he did a great job too there's one scene in the trailers where he's in the tech interrogation room and the cops think that he is one of the suspects and it cuts away and goes to another scene in the trailer but that particular scene his acting really did come out you know like I was like damn bro I feel you man I feel your pain you know he was really truly scared and terrified you know and I feel him but that's the second act so we got the first second and second act out the way now the third act or it just brings everything to come together and we get the trial of course there's a there's no justice there never is any justice when white cops are harming you know black men or any person of color you know there was no there's no justice now so of course there wasn't gonna be any justice in 1967 but the way they put it all together was nice you know I mean at least they led me to believe that there was gonna be some level of justice but there there wasn't and you know it is heartbreaking and just as all the people in the courtroom on the screen was signing on and on so was I in the theater as I was watching this doing this particular scene and you know this happened 50 years ago oh man like I'm getting tired even talking about this because I'm thinking about all the things that happened and seriously don't be afraid to comment below let me know what you think if you've seen it or not let me know what your reservations are what your expectations are if any you know even if you dislike the film you know let me know and that was something else towards the end of the film that so I didn't like what they did with Jason Mitchell briefly I didn't like the way that because the way they kind of just made the right start it just kind of made it seem like black people lost their mind and just was crazy like a quaint agent chaos which is not the case you know but guys it's a fantastic movie it's a compelling movie you know it's a you know thrilling movie it's a scary movie and I still think you should watch it I don't necessarily want to say I could well watch this movie again but I'm glad that I did if I had to rate the choice out of a 1 out of 10 I would give it at 8.5 out of 10 and 8.5 out of 10 the only reason I don't give it any higher than that because again I did not like the way they portrayed how the race riots started or the riots started and I don't like you know how they had the cops infiltrate you know what drew the cops to the to the motel the first thing that the first time they did it you know it made sense but I thought it was just a bit excessive but guys that's just my opinion on Detroit you know where have you heard have you heard good have you heard bad you know did I turn you on did I turn you off do you agree with me or do you disagree with me let me know in the comment section 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