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11/15/07
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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
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.
11/14/07
Top CriticCuriously, Mr. De Palma makes very little effort to comprehend the wrongdoers in his version of Iraq. Their vile language and clear class inferiority distance them from any pity or understanding from the average audience member.
11/14/07
Top CriticBrian De Palma has achieved a fresh level of perspective; the psychological wounds of war as seen through the eyes of the damaged and eternally damned.
11/13/07
The pretense of authenticity which all the sub-vérité stylings are meant to imply don't lend much credibility to a film that couldn't much be bothered with realism.
11/13/07
The most authentic thing about Redacted is the rage with which it was made.
11/13/07
Top CriticIt's like a Max Fisher production of The War Tapes.
11/12/07
Redacted is hell to sit through, but I think De Palma is bravely trying to imagine his way inside an atrocity, and that he’s onto something powerful with his multisided approach.
11/12/07
Top CriticCritics have called the movie crude and punishing. All right, the defense concedes all that, but the movie does a harrowing job of depicting the psychological toll of the occupation on both Iraqis and U.S. soldiers.
11/12/07
Top CriticAn interesting though sometimes infuriating exercise from the veteran director that (as usual) goes just that little bit too far.
11/06/07
If you're trying to make us believe we're watching 'reality' by using a faux documentary style, you need actors who never look like they are acting, and this is where Redacted stumbles.
11/01/07
Top CriticWar may be hell, but in Brian De Palma's mind, an unnecessary war is the seventh layer of hell. An effective docu-drama exposing what the director considers the true face of the Iraqi war.
10/24/07
Stereotyped characters, tame attempts at shock, and amateur actors doom "Redacted" as an unpolished movie about an important subject.
10/21/07
A scary and powerful fictional story based on real events that probes the violence behind the so-called collateral damage in the Iraq war.
10/08/07
Feels like the work of a director so righteously angry and so pleased with his formal experimentation that he doesn't realize how painfully, inelegantly obvious he's being.
10/07/07
'Redacted' is effective in atmosphere and in making a point, obvious as that is.
09/30/07
The characters are so classically stereotypical that an attack on the war reads as little more than an easy attack on soldiers that adds insult to injury
09/30/07
Despite De Palma's honorable intent and film's experimental nature, Redacted is an artistic disappointment, structurally messy, stereotypical in characters and lacking fresh insights about Iraq as particular war; helmer did better with Casualties of War.
09/28/07
So much blood spilled over so little.
09/26/07
I don't know when De Palma has ever been accused of being sincere, but Redacted feels to me as close as he's ever come.
09/18/07
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