Under Fire
The film tells the gripping, emotional story of a pair of news correspondents chronicling the final days of the corrupt Samoza Regime in Nicaragua who find themselves under fire from both sides.
16 August 1961, Paracuaro, Michoacan, Mexico
28 November 1950, Tenafly, New Jersey, USA
5 August 1950, Los Angeles, California, USA
23 March 1917, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
1935
11 September 1953, Peru
24 November 1933, Granada, Nicaragua
February 26, 2005
above-average battle movie
June 24, 2006
A thrilling film, with a head, a heart, and muscle.
March 11, 2015
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.
July 23, 2003
Presents a fascinating look at a journalist caught up in the tensions and violence in Nicaragua's civil war
January 03, 2012
[Spottiswoode] succeeds brilliantly in creating the chaotic last days of Somoza's government while at the same time incisively evaluating the moral dilemma faced by war correspondents.
March 26, 2009
Director Roger Spottiswode, after a couple of earlier actioners, has great potential.
October 23, 2004
This is the kind of movie that almost always feels phony, but "Under Fire" feels real.
May 07, 2011
A timely political drama, well acted by Nick Nolte and Gene Hackman.
October 19, 2016
Superior thinking man's complicated political action drama.
May 24, 2003
Spottiswoode captures the random terror of the war zone, the press corps's acute journalistic instinct for story and survival, and the appalling moral dilemmas that reporters must confront.
May 20, 2003
Means well but it is fatally confused.
