February 7, 2007
A gritty, real-to-life story from central America
Callum Keith Rennie,
Damián Delgado,
Derek Ritschel,
Donal Logue,
Federico Luppi
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It is impossible to predict where John Sayles will travel at any given time in his film career, but Men with Guns is one of the director's most surprising journeys. Shot in Spanish, with a little-know...( read more
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DVD Release Date: September 23, 2003
Stats: 74 reviews
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June 13, 2009This was my first John Sayles film that I am aware of. It came from my list of Films from the 1997 Toronto International Film Festival and as I have said in each review of a film from that list, they have yet to show a bad film. I am told that Sayles is a Independent American Fi...( read more)
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March 6, 2009To the innocent bystander, the poverty stricken populance caught in the middle of a revolution/civil war/coup d'etat, there is no difference between the dictators and the democrats, the fascists and the socialists, the military and the paramilitary, no heroes and no villains. The...( read more)
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January 30, 2008Very interesting film from the great John Sayles. Shot mostly in Spanish this is a great character study that as you watch it you sink completely into the movies world. It was cool how Sayles added Patinkin in there to jolt you out of it for a minute, just to remind you that yo...( read more)
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June 27, 2008I saw this film once, on cable, completely unaware of who John Sayles was, and initially unsure if I wanted to watch something which sounded so didactic, but what I found was one of the most comelling dramas I had ever seen.
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June 18, 2007Excellent and depressing account of a doctor's journey through the countryside of an unnamed South American state ravaged by war and poverty.
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January 9, 2007Men with Guns, American with guns, Moslems with Guns, Israelis with guns and now Canadians with guns
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