Detour (2016)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2016
	Director: Christopher Smith (Triangle, Creep, Severance, Black Death, Labyrinth)
	Actors: Tye Sheridan (X-men: Apocalypse), Emory Cohen, Stephen Moyer
	Country: GB, ZA
	Genre: Thriller
	Conditions of visioning: 07.07.2016, Theatre du Bas, NIFFF2016
Synopsis: Harper (Sheridan), young student of the law, meet Johnny Ray (Cohen) on an drunken evening. He tells him about his mother in a coma and how much he hates his father-in-law. On the next morning Johnny Ray shows up on his doorstep.
Review: Christopher Smith is one of those directors whose movie I now go to see blindly, without any idea about their story. Thus I couldn't miss Detour presented at the NIFFF2016, and which turned out to be a good Thriller, very different from the previous work of Smith showing the various talents of the director, now at ease also with a road-movie. Detour is quite minimalistic with its three main characters only, and some could call it naive at times, but the fact is that it remains tense all along. Even when you think you are accustomed to the pace and start to know where it is going, some clever editing makes you question everything you have seen. It also uses some split screens for more dynamic scenes, and is constantly good look whether shot indoors, in the desert, on the road or in Las Vegas. Yet another excellent example of the good health of Genre cinema in the UK.
Rating: 7 /10