Sometimes when I am surfing on Netflix (well, actually quite often), I will stumble upon an indie title that I know nothing about, but has an interesting description that makes me put it on my watch queue and soon after watch it. Sometimes the movies turn out to be bad, but there have been many times when I have stumbled upon a gem that deserves to be better known. "Detour" is one of those latter movies. It starts off being kind of standard and familiar, but soon after it turns to be unpredictable, with an unconventional narrative that adds extra interest. I had no idea how the movie was going to end and what would happen to the characters. And the narrative does manage for the most part to feel as if what we are seeing could very well happen in real life. The movie isn't perfect - there are some small details that are brought up and then forgotten about (such as the blood drops in the main character's home), and every so often the movie gets self-consciously "arty" with distracting use of split-screen. But for the most part, the movie works, always being entertaining even during those aforementioned weak touches. This isn't a classic thriller, but it definitely rises up high enough to be awarded sleeper status.
