Redacted

[George Bellefontaine]

I expected to see an Iraq war drama, but instead I saw a confusing pile of crap. Brian DePalma wanted to make a strong anti-war statement, and he did with this film, but I'm sure many will not see it after word got out of just how poorly contructed it was. It's one of those camera eye point-of-view flicks, shown from different sources.

Basically it concerns a few soldiers at a checkpoint center in Iraq. After their sergant is blown up they take out their spite on an Iraq family, raping a 15 year old girl, and killing everyone. Had it been handled differently, I'm sure this would have made a strong drama. But DePalma just blew it.

[Ovation]

Seems to resemble the tone of his Casualties of War with Sean Penn and (not a typo) Michael J. Fox.

[George Bellefontaine]

Seems to resemble the tone of his Casualties of War with Sean Penn and (not a typo) Michael J. Fox.

At least with that one, he used conventional film-story-telling techniques.

[Ovation]

Would you describe Redacted as having the kind of frenetic multiple points of view as seen in Vantage Point or was it more like the kind of jumbled camerawork of something like Cloverfield?

[George Bellefontaine]

Would you describe Redacted as having the kind of frenetic multiple points of view as seen in Vantage Point or was it more like the kind of jumbled camerawork of something like Cloverfield?

The story is told by a camera. In one case it's one of the soldiers who walks around filming things. In other cases it's a security camera, or a news person's camera. Some of the idle chatter does nothing to further the storyline. Just damn annoying and sometimes boring.

[Chris D]

Ah, too bad it's not well done. I try to view movies of opposing viewpoints sometimes.