The movie embodies the story of Jarrod and his best friends Travis and Billy Ray, where they meet a thirty-eight-year-old woman. After meeting the woman, these young men were drugged and soon wake up and realize that they have moved to the fundamentalist Points Point Church. Meanwhile, the church is under attack by ATF agents as it appears that the three boys are trying to find a single 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.
CraveOnline
August 25, 2012
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.
