Salvador recounts the conflict between the peasant revolution and the US-backed death squads in El Salvador in the early 1980s as seen through the eyes of American journalist Richard Boyle.
Telling unpalatable truths condensed into intense fiction, Oliver Stone's film is typically confrontational, the real Boyle writing the source material for Stone's savage screenplay. The journalist is brought to life by James Woods in a brilliant hyper-kinetic performance: his powerful commitment to the truth balances his self-destructive, drink, drugs and danger-fuelled personality. Providing excellent support is James Belushi as partner in debauchery Dr Rock, while Stone delivers the most spectacular $4 million movie imaginable by conning the El Salvadorian military into lending tanks, planes and helicopters for a film which brands many of their leaders as war criminals. Genuinely radical cinema, Salvador blisters with moral fury…
Special Features:
- Studio Commentary with Oliver Stone
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Documentary “Into The Valley Of Death”
- Deleted and Extended Scenes
- “On The Set” Photo Gallery
Critic Reviews:
One of Oliver Stone's best films, and absolutely James Woods' best performance. – eFilmCritic.com
Woods is superb, and it is a tribute to his considerable dramatic skill that he manages to elicit sympathy for a uniquely obnoxious character. – TV Guide
Raw, gripping, edgy and enthralling, this is one of Stone's best and most powerful works. – Apollo Guide