Review of Red State

Red State (2015)
6/10
Red State
14 April 2024
3 lads decide to visit a woman (Melissa Yeo) who will perform sexual favours for free. However when they get there they're drugged and wake up tied up within a deeply fundamentalist church run by Pastor Cooper (Michael Parks) where pastor and congregation seem set on eliminating homosexuality and anyone who gets in the way of their cause.

The film begins with a discussion in the boys' school on the 1st and 2nd amendments and subsequently moves on to exploring this further with Kevin Smith's obvious ranting on the extremes of these issues. Whilst this is a rant, it is a fun one and although dark, sinister and occasionally rather unpleasant, it also has plenty of enjoyable black comedy, mostly courtesy of government rep John Goodman, sent to sort the church out in a second amendment shoot out. It's short and sharp and you move on grateful that such people couldn't possibly exist in a modern sophisticated country.
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