Fantastic!

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

I can't do this without spoilers so SPOILER ALERT! you have been warned! All I knew about this movie is that it's about a revenge story. And I love revenge stories (Harry Brown, Death Sentence etc).BUT it started as a B Movie Drama and I thought okay. Can't be that bad when Metascore is that high. I'll never listen to Meta Score again...In the beginning you see a young girl having unprotected sex with a lot of men and she is insisting to have it unprotected. Okay, for many people this might still sound good :D Turns out the girl has AIDS and is spreading it into the world on purpose. She stated she slept with "130 or 140" men, giving the HI Virus around.And I was just like WTF? If I was one of the boys she seduced I would kill her. And you think okay, now the boys are on revenge. This is the revenge story in this movie, right? As a viewer you now want satisfaction. Torture and kill that bitch. Okay she eventually gets killed. Even though it didn't look like it was really intended.And everyone was crying about it and regretting it but man she ruined the life's of 140 men. Most of them won't even know they have AIDS and spreading this horrible disease into the world. This girl had to die!!! But what happens then? The neighbor to which she was a totally a-hole avenges her and kills the boys she was with including their whole family. Even little kids. WTF Dude??? Why is this making any sense? Why are people liking this sh*tty plot? Why did this movie get such high ratings? Why is this girl that intentionally gives aids to the world the good guy in this movie? WTF Simon Rumley? What were you thinking?

There is a lot to admire in this low budget revenge drama. The story unfolds in three segments from which the strands and characters come together for the final bloody third. I have to say despite attempts to evoke sympathy for the characters predicaments i found all of them extremely unsavoury and unlikeable. The film is shot with the look and feel of independent cinema and the sombre piano score is used to good effect for the disturbing scenes at the end.Its clear form the off that Nate is a very disturbed individual. Claiming to be an honourably discharged veteran who tortured animals as a child he forms an unlikely friendship with a seemingly cold hearted emotionally scarred nymphomaniac called Erica. As the movie progresses we discover that Erica has HIV and is on a mission to infect as many men as possible. Of course there is a childhood rape back story to explain her dysfunctionality.The final third of the movie is taken up by Nate searching for Erica's kidnappers (a young rock group who had communal sex with her),one of whom has become infected. Cue revenge, psychological torture and gore as the movie descends into an indie splatter fest. The version i saw was 100 minutes long and i suspect some of the gore had been cut, yet the final murder was still extremely graphic. And so it pans out that Nate may have been telling the truth - those pesky Gulf War veterans all unhinged with nowhere to go.

The slow as molasses in Antarctica "Red, White and Blue" seemed like a three-hour movie but for some reason still had a lot of missing parts. None of the main characters were appealing in the least and that makes it extremely difficult to garner sympathy for such unfeeling people. Revenge is not always sweet and it's very hard to figure why Carl would go on such a murderous rampage over a girl he barely knew and who stated unequivocally that she wouldn't have sex with him. And why would he take it upon himself to murder(?) innocents like Ed's wife and child? There was way too much jumping around, unasked questions and unresolved threads to make this a must see movie. I give it a 2 for unrealized potential.

Red White and Blue is not for everyone. This movie with grab your emotions right from the beginning (good or bad) and keep building upwards.There is no clear antagonist or protagonist; I'm sure we could label some, but it detracts from the complex interactions and subtext. This movie has layers and it will stick with you for several days. I repeat - this movie stays with you and reaches some dark places.The acting is very good and Noah Taylor is engrossing. I can not believe this guy is not cast in more roles, seriously. Taylor gives a stellar performance of the performance you almost wished you had never seen.I recommend highly.