Salt and Fire

XLrator Media | Release Date: April 7, 2017

3.9	USER SCORE Generally unfavorable reviews based on 8 Ratings

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JLuis_001Mar 30, 2018

I haven't seen a lot of Werner Herzog films but three of his films are among my all time favorites so is an incredibly disappointment to watch such disconcerting and discouraging film.

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Mauro_LanariNov 1, 2021

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"Herzog has reached its nadir." Perhaps he has done even worse, meanwhile here he is struggling between a 1st part with a thriller that is a MacGuffin and a 2nd part with aphoristic and silly philosophemes flanked by tasteless(Mauro Lanari)
"Herzog has reached its nadir." Perhaps he has done even worse, meanwhile here he is struggling between a 1st part with a thriller that is a MacGuffin and a 2nd part with aphoristic and silly philosophemes flanked by tasteless images of a salt lake. Unrecognizable.… Expand

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r96skAug 19, 2022

Oof.

As I always say when I give films such a bad rating/review (though, tbf, only the ninth time I've rated 1/10...), it is nothing personal and I respect everyone who worked on this film and, of course, understand it isn't easy to makeOof.

As I always say when I give films such a bad rating/review (though, tbf, only the ninth time I've rated 1/10...), it is nothing personal and I respect everyone who worked on this film and, of course, understand it isn't easy to make films. I never enjoy slating one, but this... deary me.

I'm not sure where to begin. The dialogue. The dialogue! I genuinely do not believe I've seen a movie with such truly awful dialogue, the amount of times I was holding my head out of cringe was immeasurable. You just know the writer, presumably one Werner Herzog, thought he was prime William Shakespeare when he put it all together. It's not just terrible in itself, it also simply isn't written for the actors - none of it sounds natural out of them whatsoever.

Talking of the actors, they merit some iffiness too. Listen, they are severely hampered by those behind the scenes but more was needed - especially from Michael Shannon, who I am a big fan of but his performance is... questionable, at best. Again, the ill-fitting dialogue did not help. Elsewhere, Veronica Ferres tries and is likeable but... yeah, not good. At least the Arancibia kids add some charm to things.

Those children are put into the film around the middle and somehow (nothing bad on them, just their characters) stay until the very end. Those scenes with them, and Ferres' Laura, are sweet in isolation (pardon the pun), but wow do they feel entirely out of place and disconnected (pardon the p...) to everything that proceeds - to the point that the sweetness drains away.

1/10 always feels harsh to me, yet this is very much deserving of that rating in my opinion. Dire stuff, even at just around 90 minutes. The kids and the neat locations are all I've got by way of positives.… Expand

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kino_avantgardeDec 8, 2022

This film makes you question whether the director is really Herzog, since I personally find this one as the weakest film of his filmography; could it be because of his old age (75, when the movie was shot)?

The film suggests that theThis film makes you question whether the director is really Herzog, since I personally find this one as the weakest film of his filmography; could it be because of his old age (75, when the movie was shot)?

The film suggests that the destruction caused by humans in nature cannot simply be explained by so-called 'professional' teams with graphics and analyzes on paper / computer. He argues that these "mechanical" reports prepared are lacking in spirit and therefore doomed to failure. This idea is the basis of the "desert island" syndrome, which we do not understand until the end of the movie. This part is really good.

On the other hand, the script, loose dialougea, poor acting; it is unfortunately not more than a waste of time.… Expand

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