Under Fire

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Under Fire

R,

1983,

2h 8m,

Drama/

War

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2,500+ Ratings

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A pair of news correspondents chronicling the final days of the corrupt Somoza Regime in Nicaragua find themselves under fire from both sides. After an American news reporter is killed in Nicaragua, two of his fellow journalists choose to participate actively in the revolution. As the Somoza power base falls, they face dilemmas concerning their relationship with each other and their loss of professional objectivity.

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Pauline Kael

The New Yorker

Sep 13, 2023

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.

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Variety Staff

Variety

Mar 26, 2009

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

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Geoff Andrew

Time Out

Jun 24, 2006

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

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Mar 5, 2022

3.5/4

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.

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Octavi Marti

El Pais (Spain)

Sep 25, 2019

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

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Nick Rogers

Midwest Film Journal

Jun 24, 2019

3.5/5

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.

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A pair of news correspondents chronicling the final days of the corrupt Somoza Regime in Nicaragua find themselves under fire from both sides. After an American news reporter is killed in Nicaragua, two of his fellow journalists choose to participate actively in the revolution. As the Somoza power base falls, they face dilemmas concerning their relationship with each other and their loss of professional objectivity.

Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Producer: Jonathan T. Taplin
Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production Co: Lions Gate Films
Rating: R
Genre: Drama, War
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 21, 1983, Original
Release Date (Streaming): May 1, 2017
Runtime: 2h 8m
Sound Mix: Surround
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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