Date: Friday 12th April
Film: Red State (2011)
Director: Kevin Smith
Starring: Michael Angarano, Melissa Leo, Michael Parks and John Goodman
Running time: 01 hour, 28 minutes
Rating: 5/10
I'm a huge fan of Kevin Smith's early output, I've watched Clerks, Mallrats and Chasing Amy more times than I care to admit, so this was a film, as Smith's first foray into 'serious' film making ,was one I'd been wanting to see for a while.
The CW and I had our expectations. We thought it was going to be, as advertised, a film about teenagers being kidnapped by an extreme religious cult (think Westboro), and to start this was exactly what we got.
However, after a while, the plot pulled a complete 180 and went from an interesting look at religious extremists and youth culture and became a free for all, shoot 'em up, police face off.
There seemed to be no consistency in the tone of the film, there was no real message, it seemed to be aiming only to shock.
If anything, this just made me want to venture back into the early View Askewniverse films I know and love.
Not great. At all.
Challenge day: 198
Challenge time: 12 days, 10 hours, 41 minutes
Challenge film total: 153
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