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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780767803311
Format: Color, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0767803310
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: August 25, 1998
Running Time: 127 minutes
Sales Rank: 6649
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: March 27, 1998
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
It is impossible to predict where John Sayles will travel at any given time in his film career, but Men with Guns is one of the director's most surprising journeys. Shot in Spanish, with a little-known cast, the film is a beguiling mix of the political and the mythical. A well-heeled doctor (Argentine actor Federico Luppi) in an unnamed Latin country leaves his comfortable home, in search of former medical students who may be caught in the political violence of the countryside. Although Sayles casts an unflinching eye on the issues of poverty and 'willful ignorance' (embodied by the doctor, a well-meaning but complacent man), Men with Guns has a lush visual style and a great grab-bag of songs on the soundtrack. It's a slow and sometimes dreamlike movie, but by the time we reach the end it feels as though something special has transpired. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Stunningly beautiful, sad, insightful.
As the Peruvian's review indicates, there are certainly Latin Americans who don't want to face part of their political reality, just as there are US citizens who like to deny or rationalize the violence of the United States of North America. The "Indian Wars" of the US empire continue as this film on the oppression of Guatemalan Mayan Indians reveals. While President Clinton did offer a near-apology for our decades of funding and organizing Guatemala's dirty war that killed 200,000 people, our ... Read More
Rating:  - Decepcionante.
Entusiasmado por los comentarios previos decidí adquirir esta película.Que decepción.Lenta,aburrida con una adaptación de guión a mi criterio mal estructurada.La dirección de actores,pésima,pese a tener a Luppi y a Damián Alcazar que es el único que se salva en su corta actuación.
Pensé que tendría algo que ver con "La Ley de Herodes",extraordinaria película de Luis Estrada,pero absolutamente nada que ver.
Recomendable sólo para tus enemigos.
Rating:  - Human Rights
When a civl war rages through a country, the line between the good guys and the bad ones is blurred. Such is the case in Men with Guns. Both sides in conflict abuse others, even the innocent ones, to secure their goals.
Rating: - 100% Guatemala
The basis of the movie was taken from a secondary character in Francisco Goldman's book "The Long Night of White Chickens", which is about Guatemala during the civil war, also the cover photo is the work of a Guatemalan photographer, Palma. Excellent movie.
Rating: - Powerful
Federico Luppi, the fine actor from Argentina, takes the lead role as Dr. Fuentes. He sets out to find his former students on the road to places he's never been. The shift in his life is caused by the death of his wife. He sets out in spite of his family not wanting him to leave. The aging doctor first encounters one his former students, now a drug dealer, using the same drugs he taught him to cure others, he is now using them for ill purposes. His journey has only begun and he finds many more dissapointments ... Read More
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