Grant 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.
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09/22/08
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Redacted (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 95
Fresh: 41
Rotten:54
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.
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 events, REDACTED follows a group of... [More]
Starring: Izzy Diaz, Daniel Stewart Sherman, Patrick Carroll, Mike Figueroa
Director: Brian De Palma
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Reviews for Redacted
Top Critic National Lottery money and Venice Film Festival Silver Lion awards should be going to much more thoughtful films than this.
03/14/08
The way De Palma stitches this multimedia montage into a damning narrative is cinema at its angry and exhilarating best.
03/14/08
Feels contrived and serves to highlight the limitations of the no-name cast.
03/14/08
An interesting failure, De Palma's film starts well and has moments of exceptional power but ultimately loses itself in its rambling structure. If you haven't already seen it, you'd probably be better off going back to De Palma's Casualties Of War, which
03/14/08
Though the events are gruelingly (and graphically) recreated there's a typical lack of emotional connection which might be forgivable in a thriller but utterly hobbles this supposed cri de coeur. An almost total failure then, but a noble one.
03/14/08
War was ever a Kubrick-ian hell-ride, futile, fundamentally unheroic and de-humanising, but now it’s mocked by a mad multimedia accompaniment innocent of all real ethical, moral and humanitarian value.
03/14/08
Abrave film for De Palma, obviously deeply felt, but the final scene - a steady collage of real pictures of victims of the conflict - offer a more visceral pull than anything that has gone before.
03/14/08
A very easy film to dismiss but there is more to it than meets the eye.
03/12/08
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
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