Never has a film's title been so misleading. This should have been called The Year of Taking Photos. Great journalist movies alays get to the heart and consequences of the story that is being covered whether it is The Pentagon Papers in 'The Post' or Watergate in 'All The President's Men' but crucially the film that you will compare this to is Oliver Stone's Masterpiece Salvador that showed 2 jouranlists documenting the El Salvador Civil War and the audience are given an upfront view of the atrocities. That is what I thought I was getting with this film but the movie takes so long to get going you realise that you have been watching the movie for an hour and nothing has happened.
The film shows absolutely no mass killings during the 1965-66 period that it is depicting or the aftermath and crucially nothing from the politically point of view. During this period nearly 1 million people were killed. Why then do we get Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver 's boring love story that neither felt believable or relevant. It fells like it belonged in another film.
A massive disappointment!
The film shows absolutely no mass killings during the 1965-66 period that it is depicting or the aftermath and crucially nothing from the politically point of view. During this period nearly 1 million people were killed. Why then do we get Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver 's boring love story that neither felt believable or relevant. It fells like it belonged in another film.
A massive disappointment!