Review of Salvador (1986) by Dave Kehr for Chicago Reader — 24 Jul 2019
Stone works some imaginative changes on the usual formulas of propagandistic fiction—Boyle is anything but the usual bland audience-identification figure, waiting around to be converted to the ideological position of the filmmakers—but as a director, he still didn't have the chops to bring off such an ambitious, multilayered project: the picture lunges into hysterical incoherence every few minutes, and Stone must resort to platitudinous simplifications to clear things up.
It's lively, though, to say the very least.
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This review of Salvador (1986) was written by Dave Kehr and published by Chicago Reader on 24 Jul 2019.
Salvador has generally received positive reviews.
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