Red State
Jarod and his best friends Travis and Billy-Ray come to see a thirty-eight year-old woman after receiving her sex invitation. After meeting the woman, they are soon drugged by the beer and pass out easily. They wake up and realize that they are moved in the fundamentalist Five Points Trinity Church and are about to be killed. Meanwhile the church is being attacked by ATF agents led by Agent Joseph Keenan which leads the three boys one way to save themselves.
22 October 1986, West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
1 November 1981, Sacramento, California, USA
11 January 1972, Butler, Pennsylvania, USA
16 November 1968, Ventura County, California, USA
1 May 1988, Long Island, New York, USA
29 December 1969, Los Angeles, California, USA
21 June 1976, San Francisco, California, USA
May 25, 2014
Phenomenal
August 23, 2013
The acting in this film is excellent, especially by Parks and by Academy Award winner Melissa Leo, who plays Sarah Cooper, another gun-toting true believer in the church. John Goodman also is very good as an ATF agent.
September 27, 2011
If nothing else, it's nice to see this director refusing to play by the rules of the multiplex.
September 25, 2012
The characters are one-dimensional, the plot is a shambles and the preaching gets so tedious you'll be praying yourself for divine intervention.
September 22, 2011
For all its boisterous profanity and splattery violence, the film is more of a weary sigh than a sputtering volley of indignation.
October 20, 2011
It's a charming if conspicuously unfinished film, a half-riotous, half-idiotic send-up of the teen horror genre with a vaguely hip political twist.
September 22, 2011
The startling Red State proves that everything you knew - or thought you knew - about Kevin Smith is wrong.
September 23, 2011
Wants so badly to push viewers' buttons, but struggles to reach them more often than not.
September 08, 2013
Smith's greatest failure with Red State is that he will provide Fred Phelps with an even bigger ego to go along with the boosted Google alerts he is bound to receive.
August 25, 2012
It's an often-funny, sometimes precious, but always kind-of-scary little flick worth a note. If this was Smith's first film, he would be touted as a new talent to watch out for.
December 13, 2011
Calculated to outrage and executed to underwhelm, Kevin Smith's Red State is like a dull blade slashing wildly, predictably and ineffectually at its target.
March 04, 2013
Kevin Smith breaks with his lo-fi comedy tradition to deliver a horror story with themes of sex, religion and politics.
