Politico Interviews Pat Dollard On “Redacted” - Now Linked On Drudge
Published on Saturday, November 17, 2007
By the way, I’ve seen the film and it hasn’t changed my opinion one bit. In fact, the film is only more pathetic, loathsome and cheaply exploitative in reality than in what one would imagine based on the noxious things DePalma has had to say about it. And creatively, it’s well, the best term really is “a joke”. It looks like it was made for $5.00. The dialogue, the milieu, the fact that it looks nothing like Iraq, all of it, is as phony as Mark Cuban’s claim that it is a “pro-troop movie”. All of which might be somewhat more excusable if De Palma hadn’t so heavily rested the credibility of his message on the claim that the film would be the most realistic view of Iraq yet seen. DePalma’s Iraq is simply what you would expect: a propagandist’s Iraq where what you see is only what is convenient to his propaganda. Ironically, by its lies of omission, it is probably the most truth-redacted Iraq film yet. Ultimately, like “Lion’s For Lambs” is fails under the weight of its own creative vacuousness and tedium as much as on its vapid and odious propagandistic ambitions.
Story by Jeffrey Ressner
After months of controversy, scathing reviews, a fight with his own distributor and calls for a boycott by Fox News’ bully with a pulpit, Brian DePalma’s movie about the Iraq war — “Redacted” — finally opens in 16 theaters today.
