Red State (2011)
6/10
Promising Beginning, Disappointing Conclusion
21 July 2012
Warning: Spoilers
The teenager Jarod (Kyle Gallner) invites his best friends Travis (Michael Angarano) and Billy-Ray (Nicholas Braun) to have a foursome with a thirty-eight year-old woman. While driving to meet the woman, Travis hit a car parked on the road. When they meet the woman, she gives spiked beer to them and they faint. When the three friends wake-up, they find that they are trapped in the fundamentalist Five Points Trinity Church of the infamous Pastor Abin Cooper (Michael Parks) and that they will be killed. Meanwhile the church is under siege of ATF agents led by Agent Joseph Keenan (John Goodman) that have been ordered to destroy the terrorist cell. Will the teenagers be saved by the agents of the law enforcement agency?

"Red State" is a film by Kevin Smith with a promising beginning, but also a very disappointing conclusion. The indulgent Kevin Smith made a twist in his career in Hollywood and "Red State" had potential to be a great movie but unfortunately it becomes an incoherent and inconsistent mess in the end with Keenan sparing the life of Abin Cooper after killing Jarod and the girl Cheyenne. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Seita Mortal" ("Mortal Sect")
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