Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Bob 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.

videorama-759-859391 After seeing Salvador, here's one more place I don't want to visit. Screen writing great Stone, who makes reads so interesting, has made that abundantly. Although it has a crammed feel of story, one can't shy their away from the intensity this movies brings. The only reason I didn't see this at the cinema, was I had seen The Killing Fields a year before, where I thought like that excellent film, this was gonna be just like it,, but there's a lot of nice little things here, that make it different from that. I actually like this movie better than Platoon. James Woods is at his acting best, as a womanizing loser, once famous journalist Richard Boyle, who cons and weasels his way through life (the dangling coin on the string inserted in into the payphone slot I loved). He's a reckless sort with outstanding fines, and a much due rent. Now his Italian girlfriend's taken off back to her home town. His best friend has just bailed him out. He's in the doghouse too. Where do they head: El Salvador. Director Stone doesn't hold back on frank images, some moments will truly disturb viewers, two I won't mention, another one involves the rape and murder of some missionary girls, which I do say touched the gulliver. Boyle rekindling an old relationship, with a young Salvadorian girl marries her and tries to get her out of the country, where her fate lies in the end of the movie, I guess. All actors deliver top floor performances, Belushi as Dr Rock, the always wonderful John Savage as a budding award winning photographer John Cassidy, Tony Plana as the discreetly and corrupt Major Max, though I really didn't think Michael Murphy was that good as the ambassador, putting too little into his performance, where too Juan Fernandez was hauntingly scary as Smiling death. Salvador had some terrifying moments, a lot as Wood's fate was concerned. It's a scary place, and one place to stay well clear of. Opening soundtrack by Giorgio Moroder.

jose_luna10 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.

namashi_1 Oliver Stone is a Legend. He has made remarkable films throughout his career and I have been his biggest fan since ages. 'Salvador' is a yet another winner from this legendary storyteller! 'Salvador' takes place in 1980, where a sleazy war photo-journalist Richard Boyle, played by James Woods, goes to cover the bloody civil-war happening in El Salvador. His journey is full of bloodshed. He goes to cover this war, which he begins to hate. He not only loses hope in himself, but also loses his soul. Oliver Stone handles this gritty & gruesome journey with effortless ease. In each & every shot, the director understands the subject & executes each detail superbly. Screenplay by Richard Boyle himself & Stone is in sink with the structure of the film throughout.Performance-Wise: James Woods is Terrific. He is the soul of the film. Jim Belushi is damn good. Michael Murphy is effective. John Savage leaves a mark. Others lend good support. On the whole, A Must Watch!

Robert J. Maxwell Journalist Rick Boyle's life in San Francisco is a mess. He's broke, married to an Italian woman with a child, and -- deserted by them -- talks a gullible disk jockey friend into driving with him in his clunker down to El Salvador. It's a jolly ride at first, a little like "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." Boyle is aptly played by the tic-ridden James Woods and his companion by James Belushi. They have a lot of fun driving through Mexico stoned and drunk in their convertible.In Salvador, things take a more serious turn and end tragically. Woods' character takes us on a political tour of the grungy capitol city with its cervezarias and its whores and its dope and its thugs and its jails. We meet the American-supported right-wing dictator who blames all the unrest on the commies. The guy is running death squads, and when one of them murders an outspoken populist priest, the Army immediately arrest an innocent bystander.There is one of those sexy, blond, camera-ready reporters who swallows every lie she's fed by the government and the CIA about the nasty rebels and the unblemished dictator. There is the American military adviser lashing out against the KGB infiltrators who will work their way up from Central America to the Rio Grande. And there is the American ambassador, Michael Murphy, a naive, well-intentioned man who turns first one way then another in his support for the brutal Hefe.The story was co-written by Rick Boyle. He seems to know what he's talking about -- the bribes, the mindless police harassment, and the mountain of dead bodies in the official dumping ground. But it's not really much of a documentary, not if you take "documentary" to mean something like an objective portrait of a given historical moment.Boyle's and Stone's opinions keep popping up. The dictatorship is absolutely wrong. The independent and ineffectively armed rebels are right to fight against it, but the suggestion is that, once in power, they'll become equally ruthless. In a too-long harangue, Woods tells the audience -- I mean his two companions -- that "left-wing" is not the same as "communist", but Americans keep getting them mixed up. He himself, he proclaims, is a patriot, a true American who has seen war before in Vietnam, Cambodia, and elsewhere, and believes it's wrong for the US to stick its armed support and covert assistance into complicated situations that aren't understood. We can't support just ANYBODY simply because he's not a communist.Those prejudices happen to be concordant with my own, but I rebuff sermons from any source. It would have been a better movie if Woods had kept his pie hole closed, if Stone had just SHOWN us Woods' feelings without his having to spell them out as if to a grade school class. However, maybe some viewers needed the message in bold print and, in any case, nobody ever stopped Stone from giving a lecture.Agreeable acting, for the most part. Woods, of course, could hardly fit the role of the reckless manic better. Belushi doesn't have much of a part. That's just as well because the character is a little mushy and appears only sporadically in the second half of the film. Elpidia Carrillo may or may not be a familiar name but people are likely to recognize her face from other appearances. It was generous of the director to give us a brief nude scene. I'd never realized how saucy her bottom was. Cynthia Gibb appears as a cheerful aid or nurse from some charitable organization. She's cute as all get out. No nude scene, though, and when she is raped and murdered along with some nuns, in a scene based on a real incident, it's shocking and painful. How, one asks, is it possible for any man to rape a nun? What kind of man could rape ANY woman? The film isn't without its humorous moments. Aside from Woods and Belushi tooling along in that beat-up Mustang, there is Woods in the confessional for the first time in 33 years. He wants to marry Carrillo and, in the course of doing so, commit bigamy, and Carrillo won't go along with it unless he receives absolution and takes communion first. (It only costs him one Our Father and twelve Hail Marys and an Act of Contrition. Sin seems to be the only thing the price of which has not skyrocketed over the years.) This is one of Stone's more amateurish but less indulgent movies. There's a plot, more or less, some character development, and mostly it rings true. It would be nice if were always able to keep at least one foot in reality and if he were to stop driving everyone crazy with his directorial furbelows.