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| Year of first release: 2011 | |
| Director: Kevin Smith (Clercks 1&2, Dogma) | |
| Actors: Michael Parks (Kill Bill 1-2), John Goodman (The Big Lebowski), Melissa Leo | |
| Country: USA | |
| Genre: Drama, Black comedy | |
| Conditions of visioning: 12.09.2011, cinema St Ex, Strasbourg, SFFF2011 | |
| Synopsis: This is the story of a group of religious fanatics led by a charismatic man (Parks), and their interaction with their surroundings, until confrontation with the police and FBI led by the John Goodman character. | |
| Review: Quite different from the previous of Kevin Smith's work. As in all of Smith's movies people talk a lot in this one and the dialogs, crude as usual, are delightful, but it doesn't contain the usual load of movie references, or any apparition from Jay and Silent Bob. The screenplay is rather good, and the events are quite unpredictable. He doesn't hesitate to criticize either the fanatics or the police force, until the very ending. One can see that Smith is new to this kind of movie, but he is quite successful at managing action or drama scenes, although there are some lengthy scenes. Kevin Smith didn't disappoint me with this one. Interesting fact: He gave the finger to the big distributing groups and choose to buy the film and distribute it with his own money! |
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Rating: 8 /10
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Thursday, February 28, 2013
Red State (2011)
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Smith shows with Red State that he can handle complex society topic without being simple like good or bad. On top of it, the first scene is huge to me! Religious speech given with verve and tension and credibility, enhanced by a great scenery and choregraphy of the camera. Done much better than propaganda! But then the story breaks step by step all the confidence in this fachist. Suspense and slices of humour are also present all along the movie. My rating is also 8/10.
ReplyDeleteBefore discovering Kevin Smith's next Horror film Tusk, I watched the Blu-ray of Red State again on 26.03.2015, and I noticed more defects to the movie than I did the first time. It is still fun to watch, but doesn't look completely thought through after all.
ReplyDeleteA possible explanation can be that the director couldn't afford to film the ending that he dreamed of, and that he is mentionning in the extras on the Blu-ray. Luckily, the website Entertainment Weekly has produced an animated version of this ending that you can watch here.
Enjoy.