Roger Ebert
Salvador is a movie about real events as seen through the eyes of characters who have set themselves adrift from reality. That's what makes it so interesting.
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Salvador
In an Academy Award-nominated performance, James Woods plays a second-rate journalist from the US who tries his luck in El Salvador during the 1980s military dictatorship in this historical thriller from Oscar-winning writer-director Oliver Stone (Platoon).
1986Rating: R16, Content that may disturb123 minsUK, USA, Mexico
DramaThrillerHistorical
- Director:
- Oliver Stone ('Platoon', 'Born on the Fourth of July', 'JFK', 'Nixon')
- Writer:
- Oliver StoneRick Boyle
- Cast:
- James WoodsJim BelushiMichael MurphyJohn SavageElpidia CarrilloTony PlanaColby ChesterCynthia Gibb
Salvador | Reviews
89%28 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® Score
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Empire Magazine
Stone takes gritty subject matter and hacks it into a perilous ride based on Boyle's life in Salvador. Showing the true, upsetting and harsh realities of which most of us try not to think of. Pure Oliver Stone.
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TV Guide
Caustic, vivid, and without question the best major film about recent conflicts in Latin America.
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Time Out
The polemic may seem obvious and at times laboured, but the action sequences are brilliant, and the film does achieve a brutal, often very moving, power.
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Entertainment Weekly
It serves as testimony to the ghosts that continue to haunt such men as ex-senator Bob Kerrey.
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Rolling Stone
Woods delivers one of his all-time great performances and Stone demonstrates the sheer ambition, both thematic and filmic, that would become a career theme.
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