Red State (2011)

RED STATE  (2011)  ¢ 1/2
    D: Kevin Smith
    Melissa Leo, Michael Parks,
    John Goodman, Kevin Pollack
Kevin Smith gets all serious (or maybe just forgets how to be funny), with a movie about a small congregation of well-armed religious fanatics determined to send as many sinners to hell as they can while they wait for the rapture to take them back to Jesus. Give Smith credit for taking a risk and working way outside his usual box, but he seems to have picked a bad time to abandon comedy. A little profane humor (or a lot of it) would be a nice way to counter the thinking and behavior of these batshit zealots, but without it, the movie's an awful bore. It's enough to make you long for one of Kevin's earlier films, if only as an antidote to this one.