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Reviews Counted:101
Fresh:44
Rotten:57
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: Despite DePalma's obvious commitment to the material and passion for the issues at hand, Redacted suffers from stereotypical characters and a forced faux-doc style.
Theatrical Release:14-03-2008
Synopsis: Director Brian De Palma, whose CASUALTIES OF WAR addressed a horrific tragedy that occurred during the Vietnam war, turns his attention to Iraq with an unfortunately similar tale. Inspired by true... [More]
Starring: Izzy Diaz, Daniel Stewart Sherman, Patrick Carroll, Mike Figueroa
Director: Brian De Palma
Though the events are gruelingly (and graphically) recreated there's a typical lack of emotional connection which might be forgivable in a thriller but utterly hobbles this supposed cri de coeur. An almost total failure then, but a noble one.
Top CriticAn interesting failure, De Palma's film starts well and has moments of exceptional power but ultimately loses itself in its rambling structure. If you haven't already seen it, you'd probably be better off going back to De Palma's Casualties Of War, which
Top CriticThe way De Palma stitches this multimedia montage into a damning narrative is cinema at its angry and exhilarating best.
Feels contrived and serves to highlight the limitations of the no-name cast.
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Top CriticA very easy film to dismiss but there is more to it than meets the eye.
There is nothing innovative about Redactive, either in form or in content.
Top CriticDePalma takes a storytelling approach that's both utterly unlike anything he's ever done and remarkably effective at telling this particular story.
Abrave film for De Palma, obviously deeply felt, but the final scene - a steady collage of real pictures of victims of the conflict - offer a more visceral pull than anything that has gone before.
National Lottery money and Venice Film Festival Silver Lion awards should be going to much more thoughtful films than this.
Top CriticWar was ever a Kubrick-ian hell-ride, futile, fundamentally unheroic and de-humanising, but now it’s mocked by a mad multimedia accompaniment innocent of all real ethical, moral and humanitarian value.
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In all its frustrations, this might well be the first great film on the Iraq War.
You don't have to be Bill O'Reilly or Michael Medved to receive De Palma's incorporation of actual (although redacted) images from the war in Iraq at the end of this utterly surreal - and phony - picture show as obscene. It's a war crime of a petty order
Redacted might have been more compelling if De Palma had redacted himself a bit -- if he hadn't been so overt, if he'd given us enough credit to think for ourselves and come to our own conclusions about these men and the choices they made.
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As an expression of from-the-gut anti-war rage, Redacted is admirable, but as art, it's undercooked.
Brian De Palma's documentary-style fiction film Redacted is a bristling act of protest that obliterates a target it isn't aiming for.
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