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Movie Reviews of Under Fire
Movie Review: Great Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Awesome movie... really keeps you watching and wanting to watch it again once your done.Movie Review: good film but also based on reality
Summary: 4 Stars
I really enjoyed this film when I saw it in the theatre way back when. A very good photojournalism film.
The events (and especially the point of view during the shooting of a main character) are based on the killing of an American reporter for (I believe) ABC.
So a lot of fictional story around it but this one event is staged almost exactly as the actual incident.
We try to be disconnected from our subjects but the mere presence of the observer (cameraman in this case) changes the situation. What obligation do we have to the observed?
MR
Movie Review: Under Fire
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a complicated, convoluted political thriller combined with a love affair between the three stars. Nick Nolte, Gene Hackman and Joanna Cassidy. There is action but the action punctuates the plot and character development as opposed to being the point of the film. It was made in the mid'80's and you need to know it plays like a mid '80's film instead of the explosion every five minutes mentality of today.Movie Review: Danger, adventure and history. But romance is silly.
Summary: 3 Stars
This 1983 film is about journalists in war-torn Nicaragua where President Somoza is losing his power to Sandinista guerillas. Nick Nolte, Joanna Cassidy and Gene Hackman are cast as the journalists. They all love the adventure of their assignments and view the wars as way to establish esteem by having a story on the cover of Time magazine. They're also involved in a love triangle. In the meantime there is the real tragedy of the war going on around them. Nick Nolte has to make some hard choices about his integrity and it made me think about what I might do in the same situation. Ed Harris is cast as an American mercenary and made me aware that such people really do exist.
There's danger and adventure and history here - all rolled up into one film. I just wish they left out the silly romance that slowed down the action. I was much more interested in the politics which seemed an over-simplified "good guys versus bad guys" story. All the actors did a competent job with the exception of Joanna Cassidy who tried hard but just wasn't believable. The cinematography was great though and really gave me a feeling of the place they were in. Some of the opening scenes were set in Africa, and these, too, were excellent.
I generally liked this film but stop short of giving it a high recommendation. I just couldn't care about the characters or the particular war in progress. Good but not great.
Movie Review: Great movie, dreadful transfer
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a wonderful movie, and I strongly recommend it, but DO NOT rely on this dvd transfer to deliver everything that the film has to offer. It looks and sounds terrible. Avoid til Blu-ray arrives.