Sitting at the rough mid point between the relentless tension of The Hurt Locker, and the cool objectivity of Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow's depiction of The 1967 Algiers Motel Incident, in which three Detroit PD cops murdered three African-Americans during a search for an apparent sniper, all among the swirling chaos of the 1967 Detroit riots, is a sprawling epic of a film, crafting a vivid and at times overwhelming portrait of a city completely consumed by rage, hatred and chaos, and how the chaos outside played out in horrific miniature within the small confines of a single motel.
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