Detroit (2003) User Reviews

Surprise and general weirdness

[chomma · 8/10 · 31 January 2004]

I saw this movie at the 27th Göteborg film festival in Sweden, hadn't planed on seeing it since the short review I'd read didn't promise much. However I did see it and I don't regret it the least, probably one of the best (out of 24) movies I've seen at this years festival.

It leaves you something to think about. It surprises you.

I don't have to tell a story, I'm an artist

[sflg · 2/10 · 8 August 2005]

What might have started as an interesting idea clearly fails to entertain the viewer when dragged out for 78 minutes. There is no story line, only an agglomeration of scenes containing Edzard's encounters with several people. While this is mildly interesting for a few minutes, it soon finds its place between boring and annoying. This is probably due to incompetence of the unexperienced writer/director duo or - even worse - a deliberate attempt to do it "different". Someone should have told them that "there is this guy on his way to Braunschweig" is not in the top ten list of good movie ideas. There is some good camera work, though, begging for a classification as pretentious rubbish.