| Under Fire | | Cast : | Nick Nolte, Ed Harris, Gene Hackman | | Director : | Roger Spottiswoode | | Studio : | Mgm/Ua Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | October 21, 1983 | | DVD Released Date : | September 04, 2001 | | Language : | Unknown (Dubbed), English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | June 30, 2005 | | Summary | Sound Quality is Extremely Awful! Buyers Beware! | Content
 | Again a defected product from MGM! sound quality is awful. in most of the scenes you have to guess the speeches or read actors lips! worse is there is no english subtitles. only french and spanish. Luckily i simply rented this movie and I strongly recommand everyone to rent it and watch. I can't reduce this movie's rating even cause of bad DVD release! but beware of buying this DVD cause of low quality of sound.
This movie deserves an Special Edition release with behind the scenes and real doumentaries. but the DVD is simple. only theatrical trailer. Thanks to god it's at least Dual-layer! |
| Rating | | | Date | June 24, 2005 | | Summary | Exciting movie | Content
| I have watched this video many times,and I like it a lot. It's exciting and I find that most of the actors play well. I also like that the film takes place in countries I haven't seen in many films before.
Ed Harris plays well as the soldier who goes anywhere where there is a war to fight, while the cause isn't that important. Nick Nolte and Joanna Cassidy are not bad either. They play the two journalists that gets involved in Nicuraguan politics, and the prospects of ending the war in favour of the Sandinists. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 30, 2005 | | Summary | good film but also based on reality | Content
| I really enjoyed this film when I saw it in the theatre way back when. A very good photojournalism film.
The events (and especially the point of view during the shooting of a main character) are based on the killing of an American reporter for (I believe) ABC.
So a lot of fictional story around it but this one event is staged almost exactly as the actual incident.
We try to be disconnected from our subjects but the mere presence of the observer (cameraman in this case) changes the situation. What obligation do we have to the observed?
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| Rating | | | Date | February 05, 2005 | | Summary | Wonderful Film | Content
| "In 20 years we shall see who was right." In my opinion, this is the most poignant line in the movie. As another reviewer stated, the revolutionaries are painted filmed through a rose-colored lense. But that's exactly the point. The two journalists fell in loce with the cause and we see it through their eyes. The Frenchman balances this with his fantastic line that explains that a cause can seem really great at the time, but those in power are all the same. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 03, 2005 | | Summary | A Great Historical Drama | Content
| I fell in love with this film years ago, and I was happy when it came out on DVD. It's hard to find footage of "unpopular wars" - particularly those that run counter to US interests. What I like most about this film is how we see what it was like on the streets of Nicaragua... the kind of battles going on and the way the poor and the soldiers - on both sides - looked and acted.
I think it is a shame that this film was put down by reviewer D. MacKenzie ... the Sandinistas were not, as far as I can tell, much like the sorry lot of the East Bloc nations tied directly to Moscow. The sad thing is that the US - by attacking and isolating Latin American countries that turn against the interests of corporations - forced some to seek help wherever they could. Fortunately Nicaragua never was a nasty place to be - like in Cuba. From what one sees in the film, the Sandinistas were perhaps more like the rebels in Mexico, Argentina and Venezuela, and not at all like the brutal and bloodthirsty guerillas in Columbia and Peru. It is a shame they never were allowed to go in their own direction, independent of the US or Moscow.
Another great film people who like this one will enjoy is Ken Loach's "Carla's Song". |
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