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Men With Guns (1998)

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Average Rating: 8.6/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 0

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84

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Average Rating: 3.9/5
User Ratings: 1,372

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Movie Info

For her second feature, Canadian director Kari Skogland (The Size of Watermelons) treads Tarantino turf with the violent visuals of this crime drama. Small-time hoods Eddie (Donal Logue) and Lucas (Gregory Sporleder) go to a rural area to collect a debt but instead get a dose of sexual humiliation from thugs they encounter there. With stoned Mamet (Callum Keith Rennie) accompanying them, they return to the farm, battle it out, and leave with a big cocaine stash, property of druglord Horace Burke

R, 1 hr. 30 min.

Art House & International, Drama

John Sayles

Sep 23, 2003

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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All Critics (49) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (3) | DVD (4)

Quintessentially Sayles

August 19, 2005 Comment
Film Threat

A sort of Heart of Darkness in South America

May 28, 2005 Comment
New Times

The themes of family, civil war, and leaving a lasting legacy resonate strongly.

December 8, 2004 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | Comment
TheMovieReport.com

This is actually a largely quiet, compelling chronicle of a man's discovery of the horrors going on not far from his own backyard, and Sayles has written, directed and edited the piece in his usual calm and understated style.

July 31, 2003 Full Review Source: Kalamazoo Gazette | Comment
Kalamazoo Gazette

A Wizard of Oz construct in the same way as Apocalypse Now is a Wizard of Oz construct.

July 6, 2002 Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | Comment
Film Freak Central
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Audience Reviews for Men With Guns

This was my first John Sayles film that I am aware of. It came from my list of Films from the 1997 Toronto International Film Festival and as I have said in each review of a film from that list, they have yet to show a bad film. I am told that Sayles is a Independent American Filmmaker and he proves it in this film. A

June 13, 2009
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Bruce Bruce

Super Reviewer

Powerful film. Worthwhile.

September 24, 2006
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Steve K

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