Excellent, smart action film.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

***SPOILERS*** We get the story straight from the horse's mouth in the only survivor of the US Army's combat unit Spc. Jeff Keller, Shane West, as he's being debriefed by his battalion commanding officer Lt. Col. Arson, J.K Simmons, Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan. The story Keller tells is so fantastic that it's suspected by Lt. Col. Simmons and those in the debriefing room that he had lost his mind in being out in the brutal Afghan sun, after making his way back to civilization, for the last three days.Sent out in the Afghan desert to heck out a secret El-Qeada and Taliban supply route Spc.Keller and a squad of US Army troopers lead my Sgt. Marcus Houston, Leonard Roberts, somehow got themselves lost and had their radio communication system damaged. It's later the we and the Army Rangers realize that this was the work of a Genie, or Dijnni in Arabic, that was released when one of the troops Chaud Davies, Brendan Miller,took target practice at an ancient monument smashing it to pieces. This in fact released the Genie that was to eventually turn the rangers on each other until they all did themselves in.The film "Red Sands" moves at a snails pace with the troopers slowly going wacko as they, without communication to the outside world, start to realize that they've got themselves lost in the desert. It's when they find this Afghan woman, Marcedes Manson, hidden inside a deserted house that things really start to pick up in the movie.***MAJOR SPOILER*** As it turns out the Afghan woman is the evil spirit, or Dijnni, that Cpl. Davies released when he destroyed the ancient monument and she, or it, would soon turns the screws on the unsuspecting US soldiers. It takes a while for the soldiers to realize what's happening but by the time they do it will be too late for them. The genie or Dijnni has been let out of the bottle and they only way it will get back inside is when all those responsible in letting it out are dead! And that by the way includes Spc.Keller who as we see when the movie ends is not who we, as well as Lt. Col. Simmons, think who he is!

Well. As a horror fan I was hoping for a fun flick. I love movies where some mystical being is hunting a group of people. Be it an animal, a medical experiment gone wrong or a vengeful ghost. This movie sets a nice mood. It takes place in Afghanistan and features a group of soldiers in a remote outpost, deep in the desert. But after a loooong while you start to wonder "when it's finally gonna happen". The group finds a young, local women and decides to take her hostage. We all know that there's something wrong with her and there are literally dozens of scenes that constantly remind us of that fact. Watch out BIG SPOILER ALERT - she's a freaking djinn! That's almost immediately established and I really don't understand the false suspense with her strange shadow, stretching arms and stuff. She finally makes her move in like 15 last minutes of the film, revealing her true self but she really should have done it like 40 minutes ago. That would make this movie better.

This movie is about a few soldiers alone in the desert who either kill each other or die mysteriously. The end.This movie lacks the cause then effect that a horror movie needs in order to create tension and suspense. (and interest!) There is absolutely no connection between the incident with the statue and what follows in the movie. None. If you didn't read the press release, you'd never geddit.The continuity of the movie is so bad you can snip it up and watch the scenes in any sequence. The story doesn't develop at all.No new facts come to light as the movie progresses. At the end, we are in the same position as at the beginning, so it's kinda pointless that the director puts the last scene at the beginning.There is no realization, no new understanding, no process of discovery. The only clues are provided by Shane West's dreams - and even then, they are sketchy anecdotes that fade too soon.Mercedes Masohn's role could have been deleted from the movie without losing anything at all.The deleted scenes on the DVD include a longer version of the Goat Herder scene that connects better to the rest of the movie.Maybe I'm just too intelligent to be watching this genre?

Before seeing this movie, I expected something better from the director of 'Dead Birds' which was a very decent movie (not breath-taking, but interesting and worth-seeing in the horror genre). I got disappointed very early on, but I continued to watch it, maybe hoping for an interesting turn or at least something that would compensate me for the 90 minutes spent seeing it. But it kept on going worse. OK, the story setting is good, a group of American soldiers stationed in the Afghanistan's desert waking up a djinn. That's all that was good. It could be a nice movie but the result was boring, dull, not at least frightening, and the end is totally predictable. The actors were rather mediocre, the dialogs poor, the characters stereotypical, the special effects very cheap, the attempt to describe the American view of the Muslim religion childish and lacking, and the overall plot had a lot of holes in it. With one word, boring. A waste of time, there must be hundreds of other movies in this category better than this one so do not waste any time on this.