- Summary: Trapped inside his car by a mudslide, smooth talking Jackson Alder suddenly finds himself in a situation he can't talk his way out of. With no hope of rescue, he must defy the odds and battle Mother Nature to survive.
- Director: William Dickerson
- Genre(s): Thriller
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 8
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Mixed: 4 out of 8
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Negative: 1 out of 8
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70At times the groan and scream of collapsing metal sounds so authentic you might mistake Jackson’s heavy breathing for your own.
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70The performance and filmmaking are invigorating.
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70Detour is a tautly efficient thriller that fully succeeds in making the viewer identify with its hapless protagonist’s desperate plight.
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Mar 25, 201350In comparison to its superior predecessors, the film's redemption plot feels banal and slight.
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50A moderately tense but also somewhat monotonous and overstretched exercise in claustrophobic suspense that doesn’t compare well to similar efforts like “Buried” and “127 Hours.”
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50Detour does a fine job of giving drivers yet another reason to stress out, but that anxiety doesn’t extend to its hero’s fate.
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30For all the ways Dickerson vigorously dramatizes the stages of solitary confinement — nervous humor, fear, rages, survival ingenuity (including a nifty breathing apparatus) — it's never enough to explain why this particular individual's story is worth telling.
