Fresh and Exciting

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Compelling civil war drama by Oliver Stone with a great James Woods (as well as a great Jim Belushi). Stone's best films have always been his highly political ones, and this is no exception. Brutal, realistic portrayal of the conflict in El Salvador and America's implications. This is one to re-discover by film fans as it seems to have fallen a bit into obscurity over the years. Highly recommended: 8 stars out of 10.In case you're interested in more underrated masterpieces, here's some of my favorites:imdb.com/list/ls070242495

As a Salvadorian, it is an offense to watch this movie. I am a big fan of Oliver Stone, but sometimes it is evident that Stone gets carried away with emotion and his political views create too much bias; especially in this film. Stone fails to capture the essence of the conflict and most important to capture the reality of the situation. He portrays and depicts the right wing as terrorists while failing to show that the left guerrillas were even worse in their actions. The left guerrillas destroyed the country and everything that was good about it. The guerrillas enrolled child soldiers and spread hatred among Salvadorians. Stone failed to show how the right wing actually tried to help a country divided by a communist movement occurring across a Latin American level. Most important, what truly is offensive is the assassination of Monseñor Romero. This is so false, since Monseñor was shot by a sniper who nobody ever saw or knew who it was. Also, to this day nobody knows who is responsible for this assassination. This is a good film in the sense of fiction, because James Woods and Belushi give out an excellent performance. But this movie does not depict the reality of the situation at all. Please do not use it as a way of educating people about the war in El Salvador, because this is nothing like it. This is pure fiction and plus it is all shot in Mexico. To be fair I enjoy the acting but the movie should have never been called "Salvador", because it has nothing to do with the real conflict. Do not be misguided or fooled by Stone's leftist tendency. I have much respect for Mr. Stone but here he just shows how he really is an advocate for the modern socialist movement.

After Oliver Stone's success with 'Platoon' came a belated re-evaluation of his previous film, which when first released was more or less dismissed as liberal Left Wing propaganda. But now that Stone has helped placate our collective guilt over the war in Vietnam it seems he can do no wrong, an unfortunate twist of logic since the earlier film may in fact be better than anything he's done since, and is certainly less reverent, less pretentious, and filled with livelier, more natural characters than most of his subsequent features. It doesn't even pretend to be good journalism. From the gaudy, strobe-light opening credits Stone is in (for him) classic form, presenting a wildly overstated pop-fiction account of Third-World turmoil, as seen through the slightly wired perspective of pill-popping ex-photo correspondent and gonzo sleaze-ball Richard Boyle, played by James Woods in a no-holds-barred performance. Subtlety never has been Oliver Stone's strongest asset, but his sensational approach to the subject (particularly in the hyper-dramatic music score, and during the more violent action sequences) can at least be enjoyed as a guilty pleasure.

As a Salvadoran myself I have to say it is hard not to be hard with this movie. I get it. It's Hollywood and the actual facts are going to be embellished to attract the audience to a "one wild ride" but it feels so odd to see this in a movie made by a "conscious" Oliver Stone. The acting is bad and I can't believe how anyone will nominate the screenplay as a good one. Why must the character know everyone of the famous martyrs here? (and worst of all, knowing them in a very casual way) Was that the only way for people in the U.S. to feel disgusted by all the things going on here with their support? I don't like the cartoonish characters and the use of only Mexican locations and Mexican actors (as they also did in "Innocent voices").The worst part is to discover Jim Belushi in a movie with the Salvadoran civil war as backgroundThis movie hasn't aged well.