{"id":1475,"date":"2024-08-06T19:17:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T19:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/06\/detained\/"},"modified":"2024-08-06T19:17:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T19:17:12","slug":"detained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/06\/detained\/","title":{"rendered":"Detained"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once you get over the fact that there won\u2019t be much resembling logical human behavior in \u201cDetained,\u201d the film that follows undeniably provides its own simple pleasures in the Goofy Escapism department. Heavily<\/em> inspired by \u201cThe Usual Suspects,\u201d right down to the inclusion of a mysterious villain who might be in the room with us, \u201cDetained\u201d has so many twists and turns that it\u2019s difficult to be overly critical of one before the next one has had a chance to rattle expectations. Yes, this is an undeniably dumb movie about dumb people. But there\u2019s something charming about its single-setting stupidity, dropping a bunch of idiots in an impossible situation and bouncing them off each other until most of them are dead.<\/p>\n

The great Abbie Cornish (who gives one of my most underrated performances in Jane Campion\u2019s \u201cBright Star\u201d) stars as Rebecca Kamen, a woman who wakes up in police custody \u2026 maybe. From the opening scenes of \u201cDetained,\u201d it\u2019s pretty obvious that something\u2019s not quite right with the set-up, even though my brain couldn\u2019t quite wrap itself around whether or not this was just a bad movie or an obvious set-up. While this might be a bit spoiler-y, it happens early enough and is telegraphed completely enough that I feel it\u2019s safe to reveal that Rebecca is not in your usual precinct. There\u2019s something much darker going on. <\/p>\n

When Rebecca comes to, she\u2019s told that she was involved with a hit and run that may have resulted in the death of a cyclist \u2013 one of the things that seems not to make sense is a strident interrogation of a woman who was too blackout drunk to remember if she got into a car accident. Still, it’s just one of several times you’ll have to suspend disbelief to enjoy this one. It feels like there would be other ways to prove if she did or not. Before Rebecca can ask this kind of question, she\u2019s been thrown in a holding cell with another woman (Josephine Lindegaard) and an older junkie (Silas Weir Mitchell). A scuffle leads to a gunshot, which leads to an attempt on Rebecca\u2019s part to use money to make it all go away. Before Rebecca can successfully pay off what she thinks is her investigating officer, the curtain falls and it becomes clear that this is all a truly ludicrous con game, one orchestrated by a man named Avery (Laz Alonso of \u201cThe Boys\u201d) who may be working for or may actually be a legendary villain named Keyser Soze \u2013 wait, I mean Jovan. You get the idea. <\/p>\n

It may be my theatre background, but I\u2019m kind of a sucker for a single-setting thriller, one that develops personalities and then pushes them into each other, something pops. A key element for the successful versions of this concept is a cast that understands the assignment, and director\/co-writer Felipe Mucci found that here. Alonso is having fun in ways that I\u00a0honestly wish his Prime Video hit would allow more often, but what works is the variety in the extended group of \u201cRidiculous Suspects,\u201d including Moon Bloodgood as a tough-talking detective and the great Justin H. Min (\u201cAfter Yang\u201d) as Rebecca\u2019s alleged attorney. Low-budget films like \u201cDetained\u201d often end up with mediocre casts, but this one is surprisingly sharp, with\u00a0a group of performers having a good time with their ludicrous concept and hoping you will too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once you get over the fact that there won\u2019t be much resembling logical human behavior in \u201cDetained,\u201d the film that follows undeniably provides its own simple pleasures in the Goofy Escapism department. Heavily inspired by \u201cThe Usual Suspects,\u201d right down to the inclusion of a mysterious villain who might be in the room with us, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[50,47,37],"class_list":["post-1475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thriller-movies","tag-crime","tag-mystery","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}