Salvador

Pros: Outstanding performances from Woods and Belushi, excellent camera work and cinematography, stellar direction.

Cons: Some parts are a little too graphic, ending has a somewhat campy feel

The Bottom Line: For fans of Oliver Stone, this is the best work he has ever put in. "Salvador" is the under-rated masterpiece that should have won Best Picture.

Review: Anyone who has seen an Oliver Stone picture in the last two decades, has a fairly rough idea of this man's image and style. Raw, gritty, and uncompromisingly clear in his portrayal of human suffering, Stone is to many a film god. What's surprising is the...

Pros: Delivers an uncompromising message, James Woods' performance

Cons: defeatist, excessive, confrontational, predictable.

The Bottom Line: Well worth seeing

Review: Oliver Stone's Salvador is a film that in many ways represents what a politically turbulent time the 1980's was, and just how radical and daring cinema could be back then. Salvador is a view of the 1980-81 period in El Savador seen from the fictional ...

Pros: incredible Gonzo performance from Woods, breathtaking pace, unrelenting point of view and style.

Cons: Just an awful preachy 10 minute stretch toward the end of the film.

Review: It's flawed and nearly self-destructs, but remains a harrowing, powerful, in your face testosterone fueled film with some fine performances. It's Stone's best film.

Oliver Stone got into the car and pressed hard on the gas pedal. He doesn't...

Pros: great blending of fact with fiction

Cons: they exist, but can't think of any offhand

The Bottom Line: Not your typical Stone styling, but who needs the window dressing when your substance is this controversial? Good war-time flick. 3 1/2 stars if I could.

Review: This is THE Oliver Stone film for people who don't like Oliver Stone films. Released in 1985 (while the war between the FMLN and the Bureaucratic-Authoritarian government was still going full speed), the legacy of "Salvador" is that it opened America's...

Pros: Stone's Developing Narrative Power

Cons: Sometimes Makes War a Little too Funny

Review: When I first saw Salvador, way back in 1986, I didn't know who Oliver Stone was, but I knew I loved this movie. In fact, I went back and saw it, at the Quad Cinema, three times. The movie, featuring the John Belushi character's opening tirade against...

Pros: good war movie

Cons: badly portrays culture of El Salvador

Review: Like anything else, this movie has both good and bad qualities. If you are looking for a good war movie, then this is a good choice. It does have plenty of bloody and gruesome scenes. These scenes are aided by the fact that there are some humorous scenes...