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Director Oliver Stone (Platoon, JFK) offers up this brilliant, engrossing true-life account of the violent civil war in El Salvador as told through the perspective of a has-been journali...( read more 
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MCT:July 5, 2008
Oliver Stone's first great film has the kind of messy structure that reflects, I think, the life of Richard Boyle, a journalist upon whose experiences the film is based (he co-wrote the script with Stone). James Woods plays Boyle in a kind of career-defining performance as a likable asshole -- but a genuine asshole -- and, likewise, the movie establishes Stone's strongest interests and his best impulses as a filmmaker committed to politics, ideas, and an essentially humanistic viewpoint. Stone will admit his story-telling liberality, but Salvador clings largely to the facts of a particularly weird point in US and Central American history and relations. It's very well-made on a small budget and its depictions of Cardinal Romero's assassination and the murder of a group of American nuns, as well as the portrayal of the US press abroad, for good and ill, feel chillingly accurate in the first two cases and funkily correct in the case of the third. Alternately fall-dead funny, melodramatic, and horrifying, Stone's vision helps define the time and place it depicts.
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MCT:April 18, 2008
James woods at his best. I like how Oliver Stone exposed what really goes on with America and who they back regardless. Films who take a risk must be shown to all, and given credit. great watching.
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MCT:March 19, 2008
Siento que 1986 fue el mejor ano de inspiracion de O.Stone, obviamente le fue reconocido su trabajo por Platoon, pero ese mismo ano realizo esta pelicula filmada parcialmente en Mexico y que quizas no sea muy conocida, pero es una de las mejores peliculas de O.Stone que le haya visto (al menos mejor que 'Alejandro', si). Tambien siento que es uno de los mejores trabajos de J.Woods y tambien J.Belushi esta estupendo.
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MCT:January 17, 2008wood's was great in this, as usual, very gripping. you have to give credit to reporter's & fre-lancer's who take the risk's that they're willing to take, a lotta gut's to go to these places to cover a story. my heart goes out to them! a brilliant movie!
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MCT:January 16, 2008
saw this film in 2008 and im completely floored. oliver stone at his original best in 1986. although the end was not as satisfying a brilliant film nonetheless.
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