Detroit Review: 7 Ups & 3 Downs

6. It's Infuriating & Important

If you don't leave this film feeling completely infuriated at the racially motivated violence and subsequent injustice that was allowed to transpire, you must've fallen asleep before it started, because in any apparently empathetic, forward-thinking society, seeing such blatant abuse of any human is a naturally horrifying experience.

Depressingly, though, the racial tensions depicted are still enormously relevant in 2017, as made evident by the current political climate, and so while Detroit is first and foremost a historical document, the mere existence of the Black Lives Matter movement proves just how much irrational hatred persists against blacks half a century later.

To that end, Bigelow taps into the audience's righteous rage and lets them feel it, which helps the film feel so damn visceral.