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| Sahar Alloul | ... | Arab News Reporter | |
| Happy Anderson | ... | Battalion Commander (as Eric 'Happy' Anderson) | |
| Lara Atalla | ... | Buddy #3 | |
| Karima Attayeh | ... | Farah's Mother | |
| Francois Caillaud | ... | Buddy #2 | |
| Patrick Carroll | ... | Reno Flake | |
| Andrew Cullen | ... | Buddy #1 | |
| Rob Devaney | ... | Lawyer McCoy | |
| Izzy Diaz | ... | Angel Salazar | |
| Mike Figueroa | ... | Sergeant Jim Vazques | |
| Qazi Freihat | ... | Hadi | |
| Shatha Haddad | ... | Embedded Journalist | |
| Paul Hijazin | ... | English Newscaster | |
| Suhail Abdel Hussein | ... | Farah's Father | |
| Ty Jones | ... | Master Sergeant Sweet | |
| Dhiaa Kahlil | ... | Soldier | |
| Hiyam Abdel Karim | ... | Pregnant Woman | |
| Yanal Kassay | ... | Soldier | |
| Ohad Knoller | ... | Army Psychiatrist | |
| Shukraya Maran | ... | Young Screaming Woman | |
| Sabrine Munther | ... | Farah's Little Sister | |
| Paul O'Brien | ... | Barton's Father | |
| Adel Odai | ... | Interpreter | |
| Kel O'Neill | ... | Private Gabe Blix | |
| Hameed Sahi | ... | Farah's Grandfather | |
| Abigail Savage | ... | Tattooed Kid | |
| Nick Seeley | ... | Criminal Investigation Agent #1 | |
| Issam Shamary | ... | Pregnant Woman's Brother | |
| Daniel Stewart Sherman | ... | B.B. Rush | |
| Julie Thiery | ... | 'Barrage' Narrator | |
| Helen Zamel | ... | Date Girl | |
| Jafar Zoubi | ... | ATV Anchorman | |
| Mazen Zoubi | ... | Company Commander | |
| Zahra Zubaidi | ... | Farah |
Directed by | |||
| Brian De Palma | |||
Writing credits | ||
| Brian De Palma | (written by) | |
Produced by | |||
| Laird Adamson | .... | co-executive producer | |
| Mark Cuban | .... | executive producer | |
| Jason Kliot | .... | producer | |
| Christopher Matson | .... | associate producer | |
| Gretchen McGowan | .... | co-executive producer | |
| Eric Schwab | .... | co-producer | |
| Stephen Traynor | .... | line producer | |
| Simone Urdl | .... | producer | |
| Joana Vicente | .... | producer | |
| Todd Wagner | .... | executive producer | |
| Jennifer Weiss | .... | producer | |
Cinematography by | |||
| Jonathon Cliff | (director of photography) | ||
Film Editing by | |||
| Bill Pankow | |||
Casting by | |||
| Billy Hopkins | |||
| Paul Schnee | |||
Production Design by | |||
| Phillip Barker | |||
Art Direction by | |||
| Michael Diner | |||
Set Decoration by | |||
| Rana Abboot | |||
Costume Design by | |||
| Jamila Aladdin | |||
Makeup Department | |||
| Adrien Morot | .... | special makeup effects artist | |
| Orly Ronen | .... | key hair stylist | |
| Orly Ronen | .... | key makeup artist | |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Francois Caillaud | .... | key second assistant director | |
| Tamir Naber | .... | second second assistant director | |
| Eric Schwab | .... | second unit director | |
| John Tyson | .... | first assistant director | |
Art Department | |||
| Rime Al-Jabr | .... | scenic painter | |
| Amin Charif El Masri | .... | lead set dresser | |
| Sana'a Jaber | .... | set dresser | |
| John Moran | .... | graphic designer | |
| Lana Tettlock | .... | key scenic painter | |
| Paul Vernon | .... | property master | |
| Samir Zaidan | .... | scenic painter | |
| Nasser Zoubi | .... | assistant property master | |
Sound Department | |||
| Steve Baine | .... | foley artist | |
| Todd Beckett | .... | sound re-recording mixer | |
| Keith Elliott | .... | sound re-recording mixer | |
| Paula Fairfield | .... | sound designer | |
| Paula Fairfield | .... | supervising sound editor | |
| Gina Gyles | .... | foley assistant | |
| Colin McLellan | .... | adr recordist | |
| Carla Murray | .... | sound effects designer | |
| Carla Murray | .... | sound effects editor | |
| Jason Perreira | .... | sound re-recording assistant | |
| Peter Persaud | .... | foley recordist | |
| Jill Purdy | .... | dialogue editor | |
| John J. Thomson | .... | sound mixer | |
| Alan Zielonko | .... | boom operator | |
| Mark Zsifkovits | .... | sound re-recording mixer | |
Special Effects by | |||
| David Harris | .... | special effects supervisor | |
| Graham Hills | .... | senior special effects technician | |
Visual Effects by | |||
| Rob Gyorgy | .... | digital effects artist | |
Stunts | |||
| Steve Griffin | .... | stunt coordinator | |
Animation Department | |||
| Timothy Peel | .... | playback animator | |
Casting Department | |||
| Lara Atalla | .... | casting: Jordan | |
| David H. Kramer | .... | adr voice casting | |
| George Naouri | .... | casting assistant | |
Editorial Department | |||
| Jim Fleming | .... | digital film colorist | |
| Rob Gyorgy | .... | DI editor | |
| Alex Yalakidis | .... | assistant editor | |
Music Department | |||
| Kevin Banks | .... | music editor | |
| Stephanie Diaz-Matos | .... | music supervisor | |
| Jim Dunbar | .... | music supervisor | |
| Randall Poster | .... | music supervisor | |
Transportation Department | |||
| Adel Adawi | .... | transportation captain | |
| Omar Ayesh | .... | transportation co-captain | |
Other crew | |||
| Phillip Barker | .... | title designer | |
| Maggie Cohn | .... | assistant: Mr. De Palma | |
| Beisan Elias | .... | production assistant | |
| Alice Wickwire Foster | .... | production coordinator | |
| Doug Gillespie | .... | production accountant | |
| Steve Holmgren | .... | office manager | |
| Sonia Hosko | .... | assistant to producers | |
| Winnifred Jong | .... | script supervisor | |
| Fuad Khalil | .... | location manager | |
| Quentin Little | .... | development executive | |
| Mohammad Majali | .... | production assistant | |
| Karen S. Neasi | .... | product placement | |
| Travis Rehwaldt | .... | key set production assistant | |
| Dana Silverman | .... | production assistant | |
| Robert Stein | .... | legal counsel | |
| Charles Taylor | .... | head armorer | |
| Scott Tremblay | .... | principal technical officer | |
| Scott Wealing | .... | key military consultant | |
| Virginia A. Williams | .... | production executive | |
Thanks | |||
| Stewart Aziz | .... | special thanks | |
| Maxine Bailey | .... | special thanks | |
| John DeBoer | .... | special thanks | |
| Atom Egoyan | .... | special thanks | |
| Luc Montpellier | .... | special thanks | |
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It's hard to believe this is from the same person who directed "Scarface". This is "The Blair Witch Project" meets "Full Metal Jacket" meets "Loose Change". It really watches like some teenager decided to make a war movie after spending a weekend watching Vietnam flicks. Has De Palma ever met anyone in the military? Has he ever worked a set where there were ex-military advisers (like most military themed movies use)? The problems with this movie are five-fold. First, the storyline is somewhat cartoonish. Second, the characters are just copies of some of the worst war movie stereotypes. De Palma obviously based the "Rush" character on Leonard "Private Pyle" Lawrence in "Full Metal Jacket". Flake is a clone of PFC Louden Downey in "A Few Good Men", or perhaps Lennie Small from "Of Mice and Men". Third, some of the Internet scenes make me wonder if De Palma has ever been online or used a web browser. They are just odd. Four, the facility the Army members use as their bunk house has all kinds of industrial equipment, including a big, pale blue wall with gauges and levers like the engine room out of a 1950's sci-fi flying saucer. Fifth, and most importantly, the story is just bad, and really hard to believe. I don't mean the rape/murder, I mean everything else The "interrogation" scene of SPC McCoy makes no sense. First, in a legal investigation, why is an NCO interrogating someone? A JAG officer would be doing that, or in a non-legal investigation, an assigned officer would be doing it.
Literally every scene, with the exception of the very first scene, is like it was done by clueless teenagers and leaves any non-ignorant person saying to themselves "it would never happen that way". Down to the bizarre (and totally implausible) final scene, where McCoy breaks down but his buddy still demands a photo of him and his wife, and the totally weird applause for McCoy from the bar crowd.
This movie is best described as the "Plan 9 from Outer Space" of war movies. No, make that the "Showgirls" of war movies. That's a better comparison. What "Showgirls" is to "My Fair Lady", "Redacted" is to war movies.
But it is worse than that, and here is why.
Every character with any relation to the military, with the sole exception of SPC McCoy, is depicted as corrupt. Even McCoy's father does not support his son. We get the impression the senior McCoy was a career military man, either an officer or senior NCO, but he tries to get his son to not report what happened. That just does not seem believable. And he refers to what it would do to "The Corps". The Corps is the Marines, but the movie's characters were Army.
It is just so odd, I have to wonder if De Palma really wrote this film. He cannot do something that God-Awfully bad. I mean, it reminds me of a middle eastern soap opera you might see on Palestinian television, the caricatures are so, so bad. Filled with stereotypes, bad stories, and just oddness.
De Palma could have made a good movie, using the basic concepts of "Redacted", but he did not.