Under Fire

Spottiswoode doesn’t have the wild, low cunning that the great scenes in Peckinpah’s films have -- he doesn’t spook us. But he does everything short of that. In its sheer intelligence and craft this is a brilliant movie.

Director Roger Spottiswode, after a couple of earlier actioners, has great potential.

A thrilling film, with a head, a heart, and muscle.

This is the kind of movie that almost always feels phony, but "Under Fire" feels real.

Means well but it is fatally confused.

Anyone who (like me) is a sucker for '80s political thrillers set in troubled foreign lands will find this a must-watch, in the same class as The Killing Fields, Missing, Salvador, and The Year of Living Dangerously.

Under Fire manages to transcend its fate to be an honest reflection about the gaze and point of view. [Full Review in Spanish]

An incendiary film that transforms the pipe-dream assumption that Americans only intervene to do good into a pipe bomb. The less-interesting love triangle is a delivery system for a blunt, effective observation: War's only objective truth is death.

Combines beautiful cinematography, an Oscar-nominated score and great acting performances to create a febrile Central American thriller.

Superior thinking man's complicated political action drama.