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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.
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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. Sep 22, 2008 | Full Review…
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.
Christopher Orr
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. Mar 14, 2008 | Rating: 3/6 | Full Review…
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.
Wally Hammond
De Palma's made a shattering true crime feel phony Jan 29, 2008 | Rating: C | Full Review…
De Palma's made a shattering true crime feel phony
Amy Nicholson
It's condescending to the audience. Dec 3, 2007
It's condescending to the audience.
Richard Roeper
It's hard to watch, and should be. But harder for other reasons. As an experiment in storytelling, it's mainly tedious and phony. Nov 30, 2007 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
It's hard to watch, and should be. But harder for other reasons. As an experiment in storytelling, it's mainly tedious and phony.
Mark Rahner
Redacted, director Brian DePalma's ugly little Iraq War movie, wastes an interesting approach on trite, crude and painfully superficial content. Nov 30, 2007 | Rating: D+ | Full Review…
Redacted, director Brian DePalma's ugly little Iraq War movie, wastes an interesting approach on trite, crude and painfully superficial content.
Tom Long
Timeless and more relevant than ever in the face of permanent US war against the world, Redacted has prophetically conjured a parallel US war, targeting journalists and filmmakers. And in an ironic case of redacting the director and his film as well. Sep 10, 2013 | Full Review…
Timeless and more relevant than ever in the face of permanent US war against the world, Redacted has prophetically conjured a parallel US war, targeting journalists and filmmakers. And in an ironic case of redacting the director and his film as well.
Prairie Miller
Brian De Palma's feature-length fictionalized polemic, Redacted, expresses its outrage with a ferocity that takes mainstream protest of the Iraq war into new territory. Apr 28, 2011 | Full Review…
Brian De Palma's feature-length fictionalized polemic, Redacted, expresses its outrage with a ferocity that takes mainstream protest of the Iraq war into new territory.
Kelly Vance
The director's concern is deeply felt, yet it is his old obsession, the camera's unreliability, that still engages him the most Aug 27, 2009 | Full Review…
The director's concern is deeply felt, yet it is his old obsession, the camera's unreliability, that still engages him the most
Fernando F. Croce
We're being manipulated, and the irony is that the filmmaker is trying to prove how manipulated we are by the various interests around the Iraq war Nov 14, 2008 | Full Review…
We're being manipulated, and the irony is that the filmmaker is trying to prove how manipulated we are by the various interests around the Iraq war
Andrew L. Urban
Finally an Iraq War movie done right. Aug 26, 2008 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
Finally an Iraq War movie done right.
Heather Huntington
National Lottery money and Venice Film Festival Silver Lion awards should be going to much more thoughtful films than this. Mar 14, 2008 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
National Lottery money and Venice Film Festival Silver Lion awards should be going to much more thoughtful films than this.
Not much to say about this one, pretty burtal. 2 stars
Super Reviewer
"Redacted" is a terrible piece of filmmaking, with an atrocious script, direction so flat-footed that it's laughable, and acting so bad you wince almost non-stop. What's more, the film is despicable, exploiting the nightmare of the Iraq War in an almost pornographic way. I'm not sure I'll ever be able to watch another Brian De Palma film or shake the stench of "Redacted" from my imagination. The film is loosely based on an alleged rape and murder that was committed by U.S. soldiers in Iraq. I certainly think this subject matter warrants exploration by artists, but not by schlockmeisters seeking to cash in on it. "Redacted" operates at the level of ghoulish videographers who get excited when tragedy strikes because they can get great footage. Yet here there isn't even great footage. Every shot seems fake. I think this is the worst film I've ever seen.
Flashy production and faux multiple media sources don't make this feel authentic and the points about Iraq have been better made elsewhere (Battle for Haditha).
This just didnt flow very good and i just didnt like the movie. And hell i hate the war too but it felt forced and cliched.
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