leethomas-11621 Outstays its welcome. Becomes Christian propaganda especially in end credits. Some fine acting but never get really involved with characters. Important and interesting historical struggle best read about in Wikipedia!

fatcheso I have not seen the whole movie. I stayed up later than I should have, could not stop watching what I did view! The world wants to "Cleanse" this from history. I know it was beautifully filmed and I should have at least had some knowledge of this since I grew up on the border. Mexico has a rich history of struggle and success. Now with cartels taking over to a great degree, many are leaving this county. The Catholic Church is under attack and false religious theology has been used in the past from south America. When the priest was hung in the movie and then the underground movement came out and caught one of the government leaders, hanging him in the same church, then lowering the priest as they hung next to each other was very moving.f

clanciai Is this a tendentious film or is it objectively credible? That is the question. Nothing is told about the background of the absurd and inexplicable civil war of the president of Mexico against the Christians in a Catholic country, probably one of the weirdest civil wars ever, even lasting for three years, and no explication is given afterwards either. The war is one-sidedly visualized from the Christian point of view, which of course was the only possible right side, since they were the martyrs that only defended their rights. Still, it would have been valuable to have some insight into the other side of the coin.What especially makes this film an enchanting experience is the wonderful music by James Horner, which bandages the atrocious apocalyptic story of inhuman brutalities without end into a sieve of beauty, which even leaves a pleasant aftertaste behind. The film is well made, Peter O'Toole contributes admirably by being the first martyr and setting the drama stage, Andy Garcia is a credible enough type, while the imagery gets the fullest credit, offering irresistible reminiscences to both Elia Kaza's "Viva Zapata!" and Sam Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch", like almost the third part of a trilogy. It is well worth seeing and discussing, since the topic of martyrdom and ridiculous political oppression always will remain a hot and immanent subject for all times, while this kind of classical film music you will gladly return to now and then just for the beauty of it.

Eradan You can tell that a lot of the people involved in "For Greater Glory" really believed in what they were doing but unfortunately that doesn't cancel out the film's glaring weaknesses. FGG tries to tell too many stories at once and as a result, the entire production seems to meander endlessly without getting to any point. There are, by my count, five major sub-plots in FGG besides the central story of General Gorostieta (Garcia's character). Even at 144 minutes, the movie just doesn't have enough time to deal with all of this material and in trying to do so, it bogs down and doesn't even tell Gorostieta's story all that well. To me, the big change of heart the General had at the end seemed to come out of nowhere.Also not helpful, given that it's a war movie, is that the numerous action scenes are not well paced. Another minor prob was that Eve Longoria was not believable at all as Gorostieta's pious Christian wifey. Yet another weakness was the relationship between Peter O'Toole (as an old priest) and Mauricio Kuri (as a cute, little altar boy). In this day and age seeing a Catholic priest kissing and stroking the brow of an altar boy is freaky to say the least. Unless you're a very devout Catholic, the scenes between them are probably going to creep you out. People of a saltier temperament may laugh at loud...On the plus side, the cinematography is often beautiful. Andy Garcia gives a good performance and has enough screen time to make seeing FGG worthwhile for his fans.