Do you have a video playback issues?
Please disable AdBlocker in your browser for our website.
Due to a high volume of active users and service overload, we had to decrease the quality of video streaming. Premium users remains with the highest video quality available. Sorry for the inconvinience it may cause. Donate to keep project running.
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.
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.
For all its boisterous profanity and splattery violence, the film is more of a weary sigh than a sputtering volley of indignation.
September 22, 2011
CraveOnline
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.
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.
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.