
Rating: 7 stars
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Seen on: 12/13/2011
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After a fundraiser for a black politician is robbed, Detroit police put two detectives, one white and one black, on the case, who try to work together under boiling political pressure.
Rated R | Length 106 minutes
Vonetta McGee | Scatman Crothers | Alex Rocco | Marilyn Joi | Bob Charlton | Herb Jefferson, Jr. | Hari Rhodes | George Skaff | Regis Cordic | Robert Phillips | June Fairchild | Ed Oldani | Rudy Challenger | Michael Tylo | Sally Baker | Stacy Keach, Sr. | Ellaraino | Erik L. Nelson | Jason Sommers | Don Hayes | Laura Lee | Hedgemon Lewis | Whit Vernon | Mike Lucci | Council Cargle | Martha Jean Steinberg | Ron McIlwain | Doris Ingraham | Davis Roberts | Woody Willis | Ernie Winstanley | Ron Khoury | Jerry Dahlmann | Herb Weatherspoon | Don Shapiro
A step or two above the typical crime-oriented blaxploitation movies of the time, Detroit 9000 mixes the racial tensions and moral ambiguities up and spreads them around liberally so that everyone gets a dose of cynicism: the police force, the black politicians and community leaders, both the black and white cop protagonists. This is a world where everyone has hidden motives; everyone is trying to advance their own agendas.
Detroit 9000’s great action scenes, including a long-running gun battle between the cops and a heist gang, benefit a lot from being shot on location in Detroit. This is Detroit in the 1970s, in full-on decline and coming apart at the seams; and it shows in practically every scene.
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