YMMV / Detroit

• Award Snub:
  • Despite the high critical praise and the director's pedigree at the Oscars, it was completely ignored at the Academy Awards and almost all major award ceremonies.
  • Will Poulter in particular, who was cited to have the best performance as Krauss, didn't get a nomination anywhere for his efforts.
• Complete Monster: Philip Krauss is an overeager, trigger-happy bully of a police officer who is introduced shooting a looter in the back to death, and he later replicates this crime as he murders a black man simply for trying to flee a suspicious area. Driven by prejudice and sadism to take over the Algiers motel in a mad quest to find a nonexistent "sniper", Krauss spends an entire night abusing and tormenting the occupants of the motel, engaging in everything from sexual assault to faking murder of the hostages one by one so as to terrorize the rest. When Krauss's own incompetence leads to an innocent being killed by his partner, Krauss threatens the surviving hostages into silence and guns down a teenage boy at point-blank range to prove what happens to any who won't cow to his threats. After his crimes are exposed, Krauss cowardly tries to abandon his partners and flee justice, solidifying himself as the pinnacle of racism, egotism, and brutality in the Detroit police.

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