Synopsis
Set in Middle America, a group of teens receive an online invitation for sex, though they soon encounter Christian fundamentalists with a much more sinister agenda.
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Cast
- Michael ParksPastor Abin Cooper
- John GoodmanJoseph Keenan
- Melissa LeoSara
- Michael AngaranoTravis
- Kyle GallnerJarod
- Nicholas BraunBilly-Ray
- Kerry BishéCheyenne
- Stephen RootSherrif Wynan
- Matt JonesDeputy Pete
- Kevin AlejandroHarry, the Tactical Agent
Recommendations
- 75
Miami Herald
Red State is as profane and anti-establishment as any of his other films, but the stakes are infinitely higher this time: This Kevin Smith movie has an astonishing body count. - 67
The A.V. Club
Red State is gloriously unencumbered by fidelity to genre conventions, which lends it a thrilling element of unpredictability even when the action frequently grows shrill and heavy-handed. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
Red State is cleverly contrarian enough to get a rise out of almost any audience. - 60
Empire
This is one of those movies that's "interesting" rather than ˜"good". Smith has so much solid material to deliver that it's a shame the package is so sloppily wrapped. - 50
The New York Times
For all its boisterous profanity and splattery violence, the film is more of a weary sigh than a sputtering volley of indignation. - 50
Salon
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. - 40
Variety
This sloppily constructed horror-thriller lacks the satirical bite and action chops to skewer extreme-right-wing zealots with the gusto Smith clearly feels they deserve, instead evincing the verbal incontinence and slack tension that have long dogged the writer-director's work. - 40
Movieline
Smith isn't up to doing anything other than setting up caricatures and then knocking them down.
