Let's be realistic.

Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

I don't really understand the many negative criticism of this movie, I think it was pretty good. I don't watch horror movies often, perhaps one a month, so maybe I haven't been "buffed up" enough, but this movie make me feel awkward for a few nights after watching it.To be honest I started watching from the moment they broke that statue, so looks like I missed that part about the djinn. But it didn't take long to put together the pieces and realize that this is a modern clone of The Thing. The soldiers are isolated. They find an empty village where everyone has mysteriously disappeared. There's something that keeps killing them one-by-one and is able to take on the shape of the person it killed. I thought this movie is about some aliens, but looks like it's about djinns... oh well, it's still a The Thing clone.But it's pretty scary at the same time. The Thing wasn't scary for me, it was more like an adventure movie. This one was scary. That dream sequence with the woman in the burkha was especially creepy, thanks to the weird music and light effects. It was good entertainment.

Explosions, apparitions, lots of cuss words. They came at you over and over and over and over again. What a waste of time and money. Real red sand is more exciting. This is a major time-waster. Better spend your time snoozing, and this so-called movie will help you in that direction. The scenery? A whole lot of sand and a few dingy buildings. What did the movie makers have in mind? Who knows? Who cares? If you want to see action on sand take another look at "From Here To Eternity." "Red Sands." The title should be changed to dead sands. Special effects seemingly made by a junior high school group of film makers. In words of two --- forget it.

***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!

This film was a complete waste of time and probably the worst supposedly horror movie I have ever sat through, the whole idea was a complete nonsense from start to finish and I had to see it though just to see if it would make an impact on me at the end, well I was not disappointed, it was rubbish. The acting was bad, the story was bad, and in total the film was the worst I've seen in years. This will end up being in the top 100 list for bad movies of 2009. I wonder just how much was spent on this film ?? whatever it was it was wasted. The first thing that brought to my attention that this was gonna be a loser was the imagery of the helicopters that were obviously done by computers,e normally this is a good sign that a film was cheap, and believe me, it was. Don't waste your time and money.