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Redacted (2007)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:13
Rotten:16
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:Nov 16, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $25,628
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
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Reviews for Redacted
Top CriticGrant De Palma this much: At least he did not wait until 14 years after hostilities concluded to pull his catch-all war metaphor from the dark cupboard of his psyche.
09/22/08
Top CriticIt’s condescending to the audience.
12/03/07
Top CriticRedacted, director Brian DePalma's ugly little Iraq War movie, wastes an interesting approach on trite, crude and painfully superficial content.
11/30/07
Top CriticIt 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
Top CriticA crude, unbearably smug attempt to provoke outrage from a filmmaker desperate to be relevant again.
11/17/07
Top CriticThis film is kind of a mess. Even if you agree with its politics, you will probably weep at the ineptitude of it all.
11/16/07
Top CriticIt shows rare courage in protesting the widespread abuse of innocent Iraqis, but its pseudodocumentary form is full of awkward misfires and its acting is often terrible.
11/16/07
Top CriticWhere Casualties of War had the swooning formal elegance of an opium dream, Redacted adopts the fractured fitfulness of a seizure.
11/16/07
Top CriticDe Palma is extreme, visceral, usually in bad taste but almost always riveting.
11/16/07
Top CriticMore significant in its sense of purpose than its uneven execution.
11/16/07
Top CriticOften powerfully engaging, and always deeply felt. And it marks the full-fledged return of a filmmaker long in artistic exile.
11/16/07
Top CriticEven 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.
11/16/07
Top CriticShocking and deeply moving film about an incident in Iraq.
11/16/07
Top CriticI think it's safe to suggest no other war could have produced a movie like this.
11/16/07
Top CriticThe result of the film is shocking, saddening and frustrating.
11/16/07
Top CriticOf 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.
11/15/07
Top CriticBrian De Palma’s Redacted traffics in, and clearly means to provoke, strong, unbalanced emotions.
11/15/07
Top CriticDePalma's movie offers its own doctoring and processing, without delivering an ounce of real humanity -- good or bad -- in the bargain.
11/15/07
Top CriticAlthough Redacted has intensity and seriousness of purpose, it brings us no closer to, or even thoughtfully further away from, its subject.
11/15/07
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