Movie Reviews for Salvador (Special Edition)

Salvador (Special Edition)

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Movie Reviews of Salvador (Special Edition)

Movie Review: The Name is EL Salvado
Summary: 2 Stars

OK first of all my country's name is "EL SALVADOR", why can they get it right, if they want to make a movie about what really happened make sure you get the name right. Second I do not know if the gay gave them the story by detail or not but things where mixed up and the church was not like pyramid, and was not little much less luxurious like they presented there, plus the bullet was in the forehead and was shot from the door of the church not two feet from him. There are many discrepancies in this movie. The reporter or whatever he is, what a shame. And I believe this is a revised or something because I have seen it before and its different to this one.

Movie Review: Salvador, with James Woods - a Real Stinker
Summary: 1 Stars

Sorry, I thought the movie stank. James Woods and James Belushi play two drunken, irresponsible drugheads who go to El Salvador because Woods, a failed journalist, hopes to make some money with a photographic expose. Woods' character is a chronic liar, rat and bum. When the two get to El Salvador, we are treated to excesses of their disgusting behavior in the midst of a civil war. The El Salvador government is a vicious, murderous dictatorship, executing political enemies, and even stoops to execute the saintly Archbishop Romero. The communist guerrillas; however, true to Oliver Stone's far-left ideology, are sincere, gentle, loving freedom fighters. Right. In the midst of violent riots, killings, atrocities, etc., James Woods and James Belushi remain drunk, stoned and irresponsible. James Woods lies brazenly to his trusting woman and gets her brother killed. He also lies to the many people from whom he borrows money. Best of all, he makes false confession to his priest to placate his woman, and then lies shamelessly to the priest. Meanwhile, James Belushi spends his time drugged and drunk, seeking new prostitutes to use. This is one of the worst movies that I have seen. I do acknowledge that many others have rated it with five stars, but wonder whether this actually reflects their ideological convictions rather than the quality of this miserable movie. No offense intended to other raters, but I found this movie so absolutely horrible I could not otherwise understand how others could rate it so highly.

Movie Review: 0% Historically accurate
Summary: 1 Stars

This movie is completely, totally, and sjamefully innacurate to what really happened. I'm from EL Salvador and as a boy, a bomb exploded on my face, got caught in the middle of 2 gunfights and went to bed wondering If i would make it through the night. As my fellow Salvadorean said, this movie makes the guerrillas loo like they were good people and our army as cruel, reckless and "bad". First of all, I witnessed a bus being hijacked by guerrillas and all the kids taken out to be recruited. Through my experience I can say that the guerrillas AND the military did horrible things but this movie truly doenst show how the war was really like. Also I believe they try to make us look like a 1600's town. People on horse wagons and all the people are "mexican-like". I know that to most of you this will come in as a surprize but people from El Salvador as well as Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, etc don't look like Mexicans! It makes me upset that we are stereotyped as mexicans. Well, overall, this is a historically innacurate, bad movie

Movie Review: A betrayal to it's namesake
Summary: 1 Stars

If you are looking to watch a film to tell you the story of life in Salvador during war times... this is not a good choice. If you are looking for good acting... this is not a good choice. It you are looking to watch a demeaning, distant, ignorant, fake, and lame attmept at teling a story... then this is a film for you.
Watch Romero instead.