stecrowd-64865
I'm sorry when the remaining teenage local boy has this chance to get out and he does this little speech about his two besties being dead so he don't give a shit, it just lost me. Then when the agent killed him anyway....(I guess there's spoilers now!) Sorry, it became a fantasy then, absolutely zero sense. I had 2 or 3 stars, now it gets one.
southdavid
Kevin Smith's first non-comedy film is a loose actiony horror parable about an extreme right wing Baptist Christian cult, who kidnap and sacrifice "sinners" as part of their services and three young idiots who are tricked into their clutches. A minor traffic accident on their way to the rendezvous inadvertently escalates until eventually it brings an ATF squad to the pastor's compound, but will they be in time to save the trio.Central to "Red State"s appeal is a towering performance from the late Michael Parks, as Pastor Cooper, the devout head of the family church. He's charismatic and magnetic, despite the warped beliefs he holds and has engendered in his flock. His performance adds a credibility to the idea that his congregation would murder at his behest. The rest of the cast is full of recognisable faces, Anna Gunn and Matt Jones from "Breaking Bad" have small roles. Michael Park's son James appears, as does Stephen Root, Kevin Alejandro, Kevin Pollock and Patrick Fischler. If there is a weakness to the cast, it's probably in the three boys who make the poor choice to meet an older woman at a quiet trailer park. Kyle Gallner, as Jarrod, makes the most of his role as the defacto leader of this group, but the other two boys are perhaps a little underwritten and making us care more for them might have made their scenes of peril resonate more. Smith's scriptwriting, despite veering away from comedy, remains his greatest strength. Dialogue remains sparky, and relationships (such as between John Goodman's ATF agent and his wife, his unnamed boss on the other end of the phone and his increasingly distressed on site team) feel realistic. Where it fails is the other great criticism that dogs Smith, the action scenes that make up the final third of the film are pedestrian and repetitive and drag on until we reach a truly surprising conclusion. I can't decide even now if I'd have preferred the hinted at ending to have been the truth, or the one we get, but it's a memorable ending.It was brave of Kevin Smith to make a move so far outside his wheelhouse and he deserves credit for it, even if the result is a bit flawed.
utahman1971
So sick of this kind of crap put out to make a normal religion look bad. Just because they hate them. Do not tell me that is not what this movie is about. LDS people do not do this crap. FLDS are totally different and are like this. So quit comparing LDS to FLDS.People are so dumb to do this. WOW! The world now a days are so stupid to go this far, and actually make movies and television shows about making the LDS church look bad, when they are not. Those people will have to face it in the end.Oh well, go ahead. There are worse religions out there that do this stuff, and are not even LDS. One Criminal Minds episode with Luke Perry, and Numbers episode, and this movie. These people are the clueless ones about LDS church. Keep your bad information to yourselves and quit giving it to others.Must be atheists that do this stuff.
Sneekythief
Got to say I was totally upset and angry to watch such a bull crap film to say the least. Red State should have been call Right State! Its a Right State from the off. Another cult with the talent for more hidden agendas blah blah bull crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Steer well clear of it,its rubbish. One of those films where you scream at it because you don't understand why a character has a chance to do the right thing, then selects to do the complete opposite a bit like every slasher film when a victim is on the run and always, yes always manages to fall over a twig or a matchstick, some case even a feather!! Predictable silly nonsense. After an hour into the film,I lost the will to live, it really would be more fun having deep root canal work! Watch at your peril!!!
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