Reg Snider

This is the most annoying film I’ve seen a while. We’re put through much pain and carnage for a quite unsatisfactory outcome. I can accept something other than a happy ending - life certainly doesn’t always have such outcomes. But this story lets those most perverse in the film emerge “victorious.” But even more annoying, the most brutalized of the victims ratifies their triumph with his “I understand” and his abject surrender. It’s akin to the Stockholm Syndrome, which also has victims losing their sense and upholding criminals. I am not blind to the misdeeds of the victims, but I think most of have more of a sense of proportion than do the filmmakers. It seems to me that those who put this film together were going through a rough patch in life or they have lost their moral judgement and good sense. The destruction of life in Red Dot serves no purpose because the filmmakers offer us a perverse moral lesson and seem to excuse or justify the actions of the worst people.