Salvador (Special Edition)

Salvador (Special Edition) Review

The Bottom Line:

Salvador has a whole bunch of things wrong with it but the central character, as essayed by James Woods, is an absolutely fascinating character--a journalist with the ethos of a lovable con man--and the film manages to always be interesting even when its erratic pacing or on-again off-again plot threaten to sabotage the movie; it's not as polished as Oliver Stone's other 1986 film (the one that won Best Picture), but I guarantee the character of Richard Boyle will stay with you.

3/4

Salvador (Special Edition) Overview

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 journalist trying for one last grasp at glory and finding the true horror of war. James Woods is freelance journalist Richard Boyle, who leaves San Francisco broke with his drug-addled, disc-jockey buddy (Jim Belushi) to cover the escalating conflict and hopefully return to his former stature as a war correspondent. What he finds is a nation torn by random violence, shifting ideologies, poverty, and the malevolent influence of the United States. Boyle tries to make sense of the brutality he sees while extracting his girlfriend from the war zone and saving his own life. Featuring John Savage (The Deer Hunter) as an earnest photojournalist, this is a fascinating and riveting depiction of the bloody strife that tore apart a nation and mirrored the disillusionment of the Vietnam era. --Robert Lane

Salvador (Special Edition) Specifications

A war photojournalist documents the tragedies inflicted on El Salvador by the government during the civil war.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 4-MAY-2004
Media Type: DVD

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