Red White & Blue, 2010

This film is categorised by many as one of the most difficult films to watch.

Well, that isn’t so. No ma’am.

It is maddening in its suggestions and choice of bland characters without the sense of consequence. I cannot give away anymore. For one, if I let it out, I will be spoiling it for the potential viewer. On the other hand the potential viewer does not need anything to figure out what the fuck is happening during the first ten minutes.

Red White & Blue tries very hard with its digital film-making, its NC-17 rating (uncut), the female lead (Amanda Fuller) who looks like Emilia Clarke from “Terminator Genisys, 2015” and Noah Taylor as Nate. A man who is without any history. He keeps making stuff up as the film and the friendship between the two crazy people progresses. Crazy people? How could I conclude that quick? Well, if I did not, the film would be stuck in time for a good six months or so.

Things go wrong (of course) and we have a modern day video nasty, which is not exactly a video nasty; not in its visuals at least however the screenplay does add a strong sense of foreboding, specially when Michael Beihn look-alike, Jon Michael Davis (W., 2008) is thrown in to a situation by sheer bad luck and a bad company of friends.

Watch it if you like a slow-burn torture porn flicks without the torture porn part but a lot of people talking about it.

In the end I will use the words used to describe the film on official sites: It is not uncompromising, it is not mesmerising nor brilliant or twisted. If this is twisted then Schramm, 1993 is fucking Ectoplasm itself and the German flick does not get 5 stars, heck it even doesn’t get two and a half.

I’ll cut it some slack by saying that it IS disturbing but not at all absorbing.

I was looking forward to the film. Now I’m thankful it is all in the past.