"You did already."
After waiting a long time for Red State to finally see the light of day, it turns out to be a rather odd, challenging and interesting film. Kevin Smith can still completely draw in the audience (he can cleverly loosen up with a couple of sparks of humour before whiplashing the viewer back to harsh ground on more than one occasion), and the casting is superlative with many strong performances (especially Michael Parks as the shockingly convincing fundamentalist, and the magnificent John Goodman) but all this is slightly undermined by the relatively thin narrative material and lack of anything really new to say. As always with Smith, there are pay-offs that make the build-ups worth the wait, especially towards the end and notably the wicked humour on display in Goodman's superlative de-brief session. This is not Kevin Smith's 'horror' film, more a progressively bizarre mix of Porky's at the outset, then Hostel and finally the siege genre, which demonstrates Smith's engaging inventiveness, addressing of confrontational themes and wit with varying degrees of success.
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