Finally an Iraq War movie done right.
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08/26/08
Redacted (2007)
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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.
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:00-00-0000
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
Reviews for Redacted
De Palma's made a shattering true crime feel phony
01/29/08
Feels more like a polemic than drama. But at least it hammers home the message that under the right circumstances even the 'good guys' can behave like monsters.
01/25/08
Calling the movie anti-soldier misses the despair with which DePalma views the troops' situation.
01/21/08
De Palma's efforts to make the film seem as 'real' as possible only make it seem even less real when his mock-ups fail to approximate the things he's trying to imitate.
01/10/08
But, no matter what its aesthetic and political virtues, it's hard to imagine anyone wanting to put themselves through the experience of Redacted, particularly those who already `get it.'
12/21/07
The film is so artificial that it feels like a mockumentary (i.e. a deranged black comedy), and marks a low point in the career of De Palma.
12/18/07
As a manipulator of images and emotions, De Palma has few equals, and this is his most gripping film in at least a decade.
12/14/07
Has Brian De Palma ever made a movie that was about anything besides his love of his own filmmaking skill?
12/07/07
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
12/07/07
It’s condescending to the audience.
12/03/07
It's hard to watch, and should be. But harder for other reasons. As an experiment in storytelling, it's mainly tedious and phony.
11/30/07
Redacted, director Brian DePalma's ugly little Iraq War movie, wastes an interesting approach on trite, crude and painfully superficial content.
11/30/07
It is simply so amateurish and overacted that it makes it impossible to become invested in the documentary-like reality De Palma hopes to achieve.
11/30/07
Brian De Palma's documentary-style fiction film Redacted is a bristling act of protest that obliterates a target it isn't aiming for.
11/30/07
So obvious in its intentions that it screams 'teenager scamming for the car keys', Redacted fails to fully embrace the proposed genius of its premise.
11/30/07
Redacted is as much a cinematic experiment as a movie, a deconstruction of our ideas of objectivity, subjectivity, and the way we relate to screen characters.
11/29/07
Brian DePalma has written and directed a deeply anti-American film, and that should be acknowledged, embraced, and defended as one legitimate reading of our country in 2007.
11/28/07
Perhaps nowhere outside pornography have you seen performances as stiff, amateurish and off-putting... shattering every illusion of realism the film grasps after so fervently.
11/25/07
It’s a movie you should force yourself to see, as an American citizen because you’re morally obligated not to look away, or as a filmmaker because this is how you shoot war.
11/24/07
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