Detroit Evolution

This fan-film demonstrates the many dangers of basing a dramatic film on a video game. The characters remain stubbornly two-dimensional, the plot never progresses much beyond the limiting confines of the concept and the storytelling is basic to the point of total predictability. Somebody is "murdering" androids - but Detroit Evolution never even bothers to explore the ethical and legal notions behind how destroying androids amounts to "murder". How is it more than vandalism, especially in a world where androids are apparently reviled? In any case, the murder plot is so creakily obvious that anyone who has ever read a murder mystery will guess the outcome within the first ten minutes. Which leaves us with a sweet, but rather lukewarm gay romance between police detective Gavin and his android partner, Nines. The two leads are appealing enough, but there's not enough complexity to the relationship to maintain interest, even over the relatively short 75minute running time. Beyond the leads, the acting is pretty ropey, there's a seriously lame fight sequence and, worst of all, there's way too much talk and way too little action. (Could the original video game really have been this dull?)

There was some pretty undeniable chemistry between Gavin and Nines, and though I'd managed to figure out who the culprit behind the murders was as soon as she showed up on screen, it was basically a nice piece of fanfiction brought to life, and I sort of wish the world-building and the later relationship between the characters were explored a little more.

When I watched this movie, I recently had lost interest in Detroit: Become Human, but this movie sparked new interest for me and made me a big fan again. I love the way the movie was shot and the locations chosen for the movie. The actors don't look like exact copies of the characters they're portraying, but the way they play them really fleshes them out and makes you instantly believe that they are the characters in that moment.

The script was well written and it's a movie that's enjoyable to rewatch (as I and many friends of mine have done so a few times). The humor stays funny and the sad moments still hurt after all those times. Add to that that it's a queer romance that includes realistic situations and feelings, and you know you have a good movie on your hands. (Especially since good queer representation is so scarce.)

The only thing that I didn't really like was the fight choreography, and even that I get in the context of the story. The characters that are fighting are both androids and thus would probably not get into messy situations, making it interesting to see what this movie's interpretation was of a fight between two androids.

Over all, this movie has a lot of awesome scenes and an interesting storyline, so I definitely recommend it!

It's a fan film with a small budget, and for that it is very very impressive. Especially Gavin's actor was amazing, I loved the characters, especially Chris and Tina were very funny. The lighting is beautiful, and if you like Detroit Become Human and Reed900, this movie is a must watch. I watched it three times already and it does a really good job at expanding on the universe and the two characters. The only thing I didn't like was the fight scene at the end because it was like..... really really bad but that doesn't change that I enjoyed the movie.

It's a fan film production , and it's amazing it made me want to try the game but unfortunately i don't have a playstation so i went to watch the movie (Detroit: Become Human) which is 6 hours long - i really loved how smooth the movie go ,although the fight scene is ridiculous but everything else is awesome , the actors who played nines AND gavin are amazingly talented , i definitely want to see another project with both of them on it