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Critics Consensus: Salt and Fire crowds together some impressive talent on both sides of the camera, precious little of which is put to compelling use.
Critic Consensus: Salt and Fire crowds together some impressive talent on both sides of the camera, precious little of which is put to compelling use.
All Critics (37) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (12) | Rotten (25)
Looking just like a dressed-up Neil Breen joint, Salt and Fire becomes, at its best, Herzog's version of camp; at its worst, unwitting self-parody.
Like something you peer at rather than absorb, "Salt and Fire" is both awful and a tad fascinating.
Werner Herzog's latest half-hearted return to narrative cinema is more excited by its stunning landscape than the life inside it.
A bad movie but an intriguing vacation slideshow ...
Despite the bad acting, self-importance and general Herzogian ridiculousness, the director actually has a deep sense of beauty ...
The worst movie that Werner Herzog has ever made.
Even though it loses steam as it approaches the end, the final scenes of Salt and Fire show Herzog at his most playful and highlight those unique sensibilities that make him unlike any other filmmaker ever.
The man, so wonderful to listen to in his non-fiction films as he narrates away in his deliciously thick German accent, has a tin ear for English dialogue spoken by actors.
... sure enough Herzog's continued thematic exploration of the often fraught cohabitation between man and nature comes through.
Suffers from stilted dialogue, tangential conversations that lead both everywhere and nowhere, plot threads and characters left hanging, and committed but constrained performances.
Salt and Fire, you see, is well-made folly. And like cult camp classics of yore, it rolls out enough portent and absurdity to leave you snickering.
A visionary director's creative and challenging look at an ecological disaster.
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