Redacted

A story from Iraq about US soldiers who kill and rape a young girl. Avoiding traditional narrative techniques, it's told primarily through footage taken from one of the US soldiers, a French-language news crew, and video blogs. It sounds like perfect fodder for an anti-war filmmaker to make a strong point, but the film is so incompetently done that it only makes you anti-Brian De Palma. He's made some good films ("Carrie," "Scarface," "Casualties of War," "Mission: Impossible"), but he's made some terrible ones as well ("Snake Eyes," "The Black Dahlia"). "Femme Fatale" is also bad, but worth renting to see Rebecca Romijn perform a striptease in front of Antonio Banderas while they're in the backroom of a Parisian biker bar that rests on the water.