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11/23/07
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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.
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
Even in the most effective parts of Redacted, De Palma's cast of newcomers lets him down.
11/21/07
It's a shame that with the vast canvas of this seemingly never-ending conflict that this crap is the image De Palma wants to convey.
11/21/07
Even the rants against Redacted by that noxious blowhard Bill O'Reilly aren't quite reason enough to recommend it.
11/18/07
A crude, unbearably smug attempt to provoke outrage from a filmmaker desperate to be relevant again.
11/17/07
Perhaps Brian De Palma was too blinded by his undoubtedly fervent feelings about the Bush Administration's bungling of the invasion and occupation to make an honest appraisal of his message movie's abundance of technical flaws.
11/16/07
This 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 CriticThe result is not only a messy and awkward montage of trendy 'new media' lazily substituting for cinematography, it stretches credulity to tell this whole story, this intimately, in this same way, from so many angles.
11/16/07
De Palma's indignation is palpable, but he shoots himself in the filmmaking foot with a showy, self-conscious style that's more about the medium than the message.
11/16/07
It 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 CriticA repulsive movie, marred by grotesquely hammy acting and inscrutable presentation by Brian De Palma.
11/16/07
De 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
Redacted is a provocative, multi-layered anti-war film whose power sneaks up on you.
11/16/07
The film is by turns strident, obvious, righteously angry and inspired.
11/16/07
Often powerfully engaging, and always deeply felt. And it marks the full-fledged return of a filmmaker long in artistic exile.
11/16/07
Top CriticThere are enough real documentaries about Iraq without having to make one up.
11/16/07
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.
11/16/07
Top Critic...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...
11/16/07
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