An investigation committee is unwilling toreview any seriously incriminating evidence against the suspects. ![]() It is only a matter of time before the tragedy erupts, followed by swift local retaliation. Everyday routines at checkpoints are invasive and degrading. Their presence in Iraq proceeds by the book as well, with scenes of heavily armoured vehicles facing kids kicking a ball around. Flake (Patrick Carroll) is an out-and-out psychopath, the first one to shoot and kill when the moment comes (he later complains it has not given him the rush he anticipated). Then there is the representative of good old American stock, Lawyer McCoy (Rob Devaney), as law-abiding as his name would suggest.īespectacled Blix (Kel O'Neill) always has his nose always in books and bullish redneck Rush (Daniel Stewart Sherman) is in for a good time. There is Salazar (Izzy Diaz), the eager, wide-eyed innocent who dreams of becoming a filmmaker and whose prying camcorder records everything for posterity. Landing up with a freshly recruited platoon preparing for action at their American base, de Palma introduces each one of its members in an orderly fashion. Magnolia Pictures are banking on a wider appeal to a European audience rather than a US one, and it will be part of a slew of Iraq-themed films emerging from the US this Fall. Beyond that however, the film risks falling in-between categories, not quite an art film nor really a mass entertainment item. Predictions are bound to be unreliable, but festivals will certainly find Redacted a worthy addition to their programs. On the one hand it deals with a highly-chraged and topical subject matter in a way that will be applauded by many, but on the other it has little new to say. Redacted (which has the same sense as 'edited' ) is, as it turns out, is a traditional, well-intentioned anti-war movie. The evidence of a well-honed professional sensibility behind the camera is too obvious to make its home-made feel actually believable. ![]() Designed to resemble an American's soldier video blog from Iraq, with additional footage from a French-language pseudo-documentary, YouTube clips and reports from local TV crews, Brian de Palma's attempt to reveal some of the expurgated truth behind the media coverage of the war in Iraq ultimately backfires on him.
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