TL;DR:

The documentary gives feminism and women plausible deniability for their behavior and actions while giving them reasonable doubt in the MRA. The documentary does a fair job at portraying the MRA and the issues they are concerned with but due to how society and female nature work, the MRA's just look like crying victims who are crying about legitimate issues. This makes them pitiable and thus ignorable to most people.

The documentary is fair and makes the red pill palatable to mainstream society and she acknowledges that she is only scratching the surface. If you want a cursory and reasonable-sounding way of introducing people to the red pill, this documentary is a good starting point.

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I will try to keep this review as spoiler-free as possible by only talking about a few sections which particularly stood out. The Red Pill is a documentary by Cassie Jaye who explores the MRA community and tries to understand what issues the MRAs concern themselves with. The documentary covers various topics such as paternity, the roles of men in society, the language of feminism, the dichotomy between MRAs and feminism, and so on as she struggles to reconcile her feminist views and what MRAs believe in.

The sections that stood out to me were the paternity rights discussion and the dissection of feminist language. The movie definitely starts out shaky in getting a netural 3rd party to care but then builds emotional momentum through the paternity rights. In it, she shows how men are shafted when it comes to parental rights and child support where men have no say in whether or not to have a kid and how they have to pay for kids who aren't their own. The movie does a great job at going through this part while keeping the audience engaged. It portrays these men as victims who are caught in unfortunate circumstances.

The dissection of feminist language again plays on this "men are victims" narrative. In it, there is an exploration of the grievances "Big Red" (aka Miss Fuckface) brought up at the rally where she claims that women do not want to do harm to men (yeah right) and want to give equal rights to men, the same rights MRAs are concerned about. As you go through this part, you start to believe that maybe women do want the same things and are simply misguided. However, Karen Straughan neuters the discussion by showing how the language of feminism actually demonizes men without them realizing it. For instance, the force for justice and good is feminism stands for women and the force for evil is patriarchy which stands for men. In her words

"Men aren't evil. We've just named an entire evil force after them."

These scenes are good but they paint men in a victim position. As Cassie and many MRAs have pointed out, nobody cares about male victims. Thus, this portrayal is effectively meaningless and castrates men from their dignity without ever giving them any sort of return on investment. No third party looking at these two scenes is going to feel that men are victimized. Rather, it will be more like emotional porn where they ride the emotional roller coaster of sadness and come out of it feeling that it was a nice trip. In each clip, the men are trying to change the system for the better and are fighting against its injustices, effectively looking like hamsters on a wheel to both MGTOW and the mainstream of society.

Except the mainstream of society is crueler in that they derive emotional pleasure watching their struggle without helping.

That being said, the film gives women a plausible out by implying that feminism and women are separate. Feminism is just the fight for equality for one gender while women are just human beings. In fact, in the end, she even says that she "no longer calls herself a feminist."

Perhaps this is because this is from a MGTOW perspective but we know that that dichotomy is bullshit: feminism is just outward female nature. While it definitely does not make sense for a film director trying to explain what the red pill is to a mainstream audience to insult at least 1/2 its audience, the film also does not imply this perspective. If anything, it tries its hardest to bury it behind the dichotomy.

But what this film has shown me is that society doesn't need to be helped by white knights or hurt by us leaving. What it needs is a push in one direction or another to see it all break down. At this point, people are shying away from feminism (the label, at least) but are still indoctrinated by feminism and hold feminist beliefs. At the same time, people still find female nature excusable on a societal level but not personally. They may recognize the shitty things that women do but choose to ignore it anyway.

For instance, in the section about paternity fraud, the female audience applause in support of a woman committing paternity fraud. The film uses this clip to support how fraud can happen but does not show what pieces of shit women are to begin with. If anything, it runs from that point.

Society isn't fucked but its just got its head up its own ass. It accepts the evils of female nature as good and is not willing to change. The Red Pill documentary is more a reflection of that more than it is an introduction to the issues of men. That might come off a bit meta but really, the nature of the film and the reaction most people have to it, including her feminist writer friend who is 8 months pregnant non-nonchalantly dismissing the concerns of MRAs as silly, already say more than enough about how society is:

Nobody cares about male suffering.