Your Reaction to DePalma's film "Redacted"?

[Mike03]

Apparently "Redacted" is being screened or shown on cable, and it would be interesting to get some reaction to Brian DePalma's film about the hideous rape/murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the pitiless slaughter of her entire family.

DePalma has a splotchy record of important but also failed films. In 1987 or thereabouts he directed "Casualties of War," which had nearly an identical theme of a demoralized and dehumanized squad in VietNam abducting, raping and killing a Vietnamese girl.

If you have seen "Redacted", what did you think?

Is it an important work, or an exploitative work?

Is it tasteful, horrifying or merely salacious?

Is it overtly political and, more importantly, is it effective?

Comments appreciated.

EDIT:

Abeer Qasim Hamza was her name. I thought it was proper to put her name in the post, since most Americans don't know it but ought to.