Review of Red State (2011) by Justin J — 22 Jan 2012
A poorly articulated religious theme is no excuse for a culminating your film with a sloppy deus ex machina. The device is especially sloppy needing to be described in dialogue rather that shown.
Even before the cop-out ending the film wasn't leading anywhere particularly great. We don't feel either empathy for the characters to motivate our fears or the cheap thrill that comes with their deaths that is the standard of teen slashers.
The political and social commentary is alternately unobjectionably dull ("violent fundamentalists are bad") to a sprawling and jumbled cross of Waco meets Patriot Act government criticism ("untrustworthy government values self-perception over justice, but in the end it's vaguely more about civil liberties in a post 9-11 world?").
Inarticulate and un-evocative, the movie is rubbish.
This review of Red State (2011) was written by Justin J on 22 Jan 2012.
Red State has generally received mixed reviews.
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