CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

terryindorset-89195 This is a fiction account because the producer was forbidden to produce anything else, but this is how US troops behave all around the world & we should know about it......more power to Palma.

besherat Brian De Palma's film "Redacted", made in the form of documentary film, which gives more action and tension of true events in Iraq. We talk about the crimes covered up the U.S. military in Iraq, in peacetime 2006 g. The rape of 15-year-old girl and killing her family. Very startling film, with staff showing the true and original footage of the massacre in Iraq. I thought it was one of the many war movies, many of a hundred I watched. But, it pleasantly surprised me.

tplanefun Normally I would not give a bad review, as my opinion, well is my opinion! But when I read that an extremist murdered two unarmed servicemen on a bus because he thought this movie was true gave me cause to change my mind. This movie left me wishing there was something better to waste my time on, like watching paint dry. If you are a hater of the armed services or like trash fiction movies than go see this.But It was not worth the life of two service men in Germany. Not sure what the where trying to achieve, this movie should have been a casualty of war..... Normally I would not give a bad review, as my opinion, well is my opinion! But when I read that an extremist murdered two unarmed servicemen on a bus because he thought this movie was true gave me cause to change my mind. This movie left me wishing there was something better to waste my time on, like watching paint dry. If you are a hater of the armed services or like trash fiction movies than go see this.But It was not worth the life of two service men in Germany. Not sure what the where trying to achieve, this movie should have been a casualty of war.....Other reviewers have commented about the personal agenda of the writers/directors. I have no use for a movie that reminds me of the old Nazi & Russia propaganda movies of WWII.

Rodrigo Amaro Strangely one of the most overlooked films and also one of the most painfully criticized films of 2007, "Redacted" has Brian De Palma exposing his views on a real event that took place during the Iraq War. The minor problem for those who know De Palma's films and have a high regard for "Casualties of War" is watch again a similar background story but setting in a different war. Nevertheless, this film worths a view for its audacity (the movie was released while the war was in its course, that's why the negative reviews), and some originality. Believing that the war on Iraq was presented by the government in their own almost censored way, De Palma challenged us by showing a uncensored conflict, a war without cuts, through the points of view of news cameras from all over the world, covering routine operations; a soldier's camera recording their daily routine (rarely on combat but more in their day-off's or during their operations on the observation post controlling the cars that enter in their space) and he films everything thinking this might be his entrance door to a film school where he pretends to attend after the war; and the Army surveillance cameras that shows us private conversations of the soldiers. Also, there's an interesting approach concerning the war coverage on the internet, through the videos made by the Iraqi rebels executing a soldier or videos about those opposed to the war, making a web protest, a clear sign of the times if we look back and see that in another wars this media wasn't available. The coincidence with "Casualties..." or the lack of originality comes in the most climatic moments of the film when the bored soldiers decide to go back to a house they made some arrests, where there was a pretty young girl there, to rape and kill her. But one of the soldiers, who opposed to be part of this and was there decides to denounce his comrades, to no avail (since we don't know what happen to the accused), it actually backfires a little, since the interrogation he suffered by his superiors was quite rude and upsetting. Basically, they were saying without using these words that they wouldn't harm the U.S. Army with a denounce like that, so let it go, soldier! There's not much of a plot, it's more an observation of a given situation. It's an authentic and brave film, the performances are quite good since most of the actors are unknown. Since "Hi Mom" (1970) and the already mentioned "Casualties of War" De Palma haven't issued such a powerful social statement on a film. While I was watching this film I couldn't think of him directing and writing all of what I was seeing, it was way different of everything he's done (even the technical aspects). The comment made by a irate girl about Hollywood not making a film on the My Lai massacre nails the spot perfectly about how far can a filmmaker go in dealing with controversial materials, and here De Palma risked a lot by exposing a unflattering and negative side of the American system of Defense, and that killed the experience for many moviegoers who rated this film really low. I know it's fine to support your own defense system that protects you and makes you safe but it's not enough just to cover the good aspects of it and hide the dirty and the shameful, it's fair to show all of the sides, if they're right or wrong. I'm not saying this because it doesn't concern the defense of the place I live, in fact, ours even outside of a war appears on the news with stories of abuse, suspicious deaths in trainings, things like that, and I would like to see a filmmaker make films about that. Maybe it would make governments to see their defense systems with another perspective and change what's currently bad, that goes for every nation. Short and sweet, "Redacted" presents its controversial theme without being too much exploitative or too much sensationalist, but even so most people failed to see that, only seeing the difficult subject matter and complaining about everything. It doesn't deserve most of the prejudicial comments it received since this was one of De Palma's best works in years. To be reevaluated by audiences in a near future I hope. 10/10