| Redacted | 
 enlarge | Director: Brian De Palma
Actors: Patrick Carroll, Rob Devaney, Izzy Diaz, Sahar Alloul, Happy Anderson
Studio: Magnolia
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 27402
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 90
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: MAGD10122D
UPC: 876964001229
EAN: 0876964001229
ASIN: B000YDOOSM
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: February 19, 2008
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Studio: Magnolia Pict Hm Ent Release Date: 11/25/2008 Run time: 90 minutes Rating: R
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Brian De Palma's ferocious Redacted is one of a number of cinematic protests against the Iraq War and the withholding of information and images about the war from the U.S. public. But it is also shares De Palma's perennial interest in the relationship between film and violence, a relationship that has changed significantly in the real world because of the Internet, cable news, and the ubiquity of camcorders on the ground in Iraq. In a world more intent than ever on watching everything, De Palma has fashioned Redacted to look like a daisy chain of found footage taken from disparate sources. These include an American soldier's video journal (which, not insignificantly, is also supposed to be that soldier's audition piece for film school), a French documentary, a security camera at the edge of an army compound, and streaming video online from insurgents and military families alike. Taken together, Redacted recreates the kind of Iraq War scenes we've heard about for years: soldiers kidnapped or felled by booby traps, pregnant women and children shot by American guards at military checkpoints because Iraqi drivers misunderstand orders, etc. With mood and setting firmly established, Redacted then tells the story of an atrocity ripped from headlines in 2006: the rape and murder of an Iraqi teen, as well as the murder of her family, by American soldiers who then proceed to cover up their crime. Meanwhile, other soldiers, well-meaning witnesses to what happened, implode with doubt and uncertainty about what to do. In a way, Redacted is really about the paralysis of ordinary Americans confronted by the horror of our collective misjudgment about Iraq. It's a work of fiction using actors, meaning that De Palma employs a verisimilitude which sometimes doesn't sit well with anyone who has seen a lot of Iraq War documentaries featuring real troops and real Iraqis. But De Palma is trying to do something very difficult, i.e., make the case that in war, truth really is the first casualty. --Tom Keogh
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 Masterfull, confronting, ugly and importantly the truth. November 6, 2008
- WoW -
To sum it up in one word. Wow.
Disregard the nay-sayers, the biased, and everyone else.
See this movie. And be your own judge. This movie has to be seen.
There is a small reel of excellent war photography in the end which tells the story, and many more, Fox news & CNN will never.
Still in doubt ? Search for pictures about the war, there are so many. It's all there. . . But can you face the reality of it all ?
 Disappointing film August 15, 2008
I was looking forward to watching this film having seen everything that's been done on the Iraq war and being a De Palma movie fan. But this film was a 'stinker'. 90% of the movie is watching home video of the characters who with all due respect for serving their country, are mostly racist,ignorant and sadistic. The worst criticism I can state about the film is that for the most part it's just boring. The 'message' of the film, that war is insane and it makes those who have to fight it insane is clear enough and even honorable. But watching that message thru one dimensional characters showing what idiots they are, while recorded by the soldier who aspires to go to film school when the war ends, is just not entertaining.
The violence and sheer boredom presented are all done okay but the story just 'lays there' and no character grabbed me or created any rooting interest. I would not recommend this film to anyone.
A great war film August 4, 2008
This is one of the great war films. Lean and muscular, it is a complex, harrowing, confronting journey into hell's maw. It will leave you feeling enraged and burning with indignation. The film is about the America's willingness to send young men and women into a situation they are ill equipped to handle. Furthermore, the government is callously sacrificing lives on both sides of the fence for political and financial expediency.
I have been a De Palma fan for a long time. This film shows that the old master has lost none of his filmic virtuosity or his revolutionary fervour. It's a brilliant return to form and it is shameful so many lackeys have panned a cinematic high-point on ideological grounds.
Hillbilly Reunion!!! July 13, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Look, first of all, I don't give a rat's *ss what war you've fought in; if you're not black or native American, and have never had to fight to eat a damn hamburger, or get beat, shot at or killed, for whistling at a woman or for having the nerve to want to sit where you felt like on a bus, or for having the audacity for wanting to drink from a PUBLIC water fountain; if you haven't had to deal with any of these basic issues, don't spout off about being patriotic--you've had more to fight for--and die for--than those you'll call un-american. I'll bet that the same redneck who'll label a fine movie like this un-american would complain that some klansman lynching photo was propaganda, that we'd have to get the klan side of some black man being roasted for whistling at some white woman. If you want to rate the movie's merits, fine, but keep patriotism out of it. No one's more patriotic than people who'll fight and die for a country that deprives them of the basic rights of full citizenship. No one's more patriotic than a man who'll die for a country that has to pass a law for him to be a full citizen every seven years. This is a great movie. No, Rambo shouldn't get the oscar for best picture, Bubba!!
 This movie should be banned June 19, 2008
6 out of 11 found this review helpful
First off since I have been stationed in Germany for 8 years and have served 2 combat tours in Iraq, this movie is like a kick in the gut. Do Americans really feel this way about Iraq. I watched the movie, and then thought about the real thing. I tried to keep an open mind but no it just wasn't going to happen with this movie.
I will start off with certain technical aspects of this movie that I noticed. Keep in mind Deployed total of 4 times to the Middle East in the last 10 years, 2 Intrinsic Actions which were 6 months a piece and 2 OIFs. 12 months in Samarra, and 15 in Ramadi. And one more thing a am actually in a combat related Job so actually hunting insurgents not just on check points and guarding convoys.
My first problem was not with the acting or even the subject of the movie as the killings did actually take place. But it was with the lack of research the movie maker had on actual everyday operations in Iraq. One note I would like to add is that in one scene towards the beginning of the film its shows a city which doesn't look like an Iraqi city at all. After that is shows the US checkpoint. Well I don't know but the last time I checked the US Army uses the M1A1 Main Battle Tank, not a Challenger 1 Britsh Tank.
This movie is a dicrace to Americans not just Soldiers or the Bush Administration. Its a kick in the face. The feeling I get from the news is that Americans like Terrorists more than its own troops. Well thats Ok becuse all of you who say the troops want to go home and all that. I say that I dont want to go home. I will keep going to Iraq or to wherever my country sends me. I speak for a lot of soldiers when I say that we do not need saving from a bunch of people who try to speak for Soldiers.
Every movie that I have seen does not even come close to the Iraq that I experienced and I was in some pretty bad places. One movie out there that is worth watching is The Kingdom with Jamie Fox, even though it takes place in Saudi Arabia there are a lot of similarities to the war in Iraq.
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