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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
Even at its most blatantly manipulative, Redacted provokes a response of rage, disgust and anger. De Palma strives to ignite passion, and while some of that passion may end up directed at the film itself, Redacted is an antidote to apathy.
...this jumble of flat visual tones and wandering narrative focus leaves De Palma--a man who knows where to put an actual movie camera and how to dance it around in an often dazzling manner--in a creative straitjacket...
The most disturbing and successful release since the start of the Iraqi war. Another anti-war film that may be too good for its own good.
The fact that the story De Palma has chosen is only partially true makes his more extreme decisions feel that much more sadistic.
Redacted could be as powerful as it is punishing if De Palma found a mode that he could excel in from start to finish.
Shocking and deeply moving film about an incident in Iraq.
Top CriticI think it's safe to suggest no other war could have produced a movie like this.
The result of the film is shocking, saddening and frustrating.
Top CriticRedacted deliberately echoes Casualties of War, and the difference is startling.
A shattering and angry work of socially committed cinema that is one of the most emotionally devastating films of De Palma's entire career
war porn for the cognoscenti.
There is a place for staunchly political cinema like Redacted, just as there is a place for any genre or personal perspective. In this case, it is the crude treatment of the material that spells its undoing.
Of all the war-themed pictures that have been released so far this fall, it stands apart, and it stands alone: Redacted is confrontational, rough, immediate and confounding.
Brian De Palma’s Redacted traffics in, and clearly means to provoke, strong, unbalanced emotions.
Top CriticAs an expression of from-the-gut anti-war rage, Redacted is admirable, but as art, it's undercooked.
DePalma's movie offers its own doctoring and processing, without delivering an ounce of real humanity -- good or bad -- in the bargain.
The concept is audacious but the actors are too theatrical.
Although Redacted has intensity and seriousness of purpose, it brings us no closer to, or even thoughtfully further away from, its subject.
It's an effective experiment and a hackle-raising drama, and it's far better controlled than De Palma's last film, the flailing noir mess The Black Dahlia.
If righteous indignation was the most direct highway to art, Redacted would be his masterpiece.
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