UK Shaun Salt and Fire (2016)A Werner Herzog film. On this info alone I decided to watch Salt and Fire. To be honest, I was disappointed. The acting is mediocre at best. Laura, played by Veronica Ferres comes across as wooden, which might have something to do with her being German speaking English? at least she looks attractive.Others here on IMDb have described the story, so I will spare you another interpretation. The story is basic, and needlessly stretched out. The biggest problem I had with the idea, was just how silly it was. Environmental issues caused by human activities make for interesting subject matter. Salt and Fire does not make for an interesting film.To give you an example of 'silly' and 'needlessly stretched out', Laura is abandoned with two blind children on a small cactus infested island surrounded for miles by salt (a dry salt lake). Rather than panic, she acts calm, spends some time teaching the children her name while getting to know theirs? Laura and the two children play a board game, which goes on for a tedious while. By this point I couldn't wait for the film to end.I'm all for long arty shots of landscapes, and Salt and Fire contains just these kind of shots. What lets them down was irritating music. I disliked the choice of music.Not recommended. 3/10 for the arty landscape shots.

randall-50 From the very beginning I kept thinking, are they expecting me to take this seriously? The dialog was just SO bad, and the delivery SO stilted, the camera angles SO affected, it's almost like someone set out to make a bad movie on purpose. I suppose there was a plot... something about scientists coming to a south American country to investigate an environmental disaster and getting abducted at the airport by scary gun- toting thugs wearing ski masks. From there it appeared to be going into some kind of psychological battle between the head captor and the calm and cool tall blond female head scientist. But I just couldn't bring myself to care, and I only made it 30 minutes or so into it before I realized it wasn't going to get better, and shut it off.

Jeff It's hard to believe that the director of a film so profound and well- done as Rescue Dawn would produce such an utterly unwatchable movie as Salt and Fire. I am only giving this 2 stars for the efforts of Michael Shannon. The start was decent and one was wondering "ok what's going to happen now and what's this all about". Then the shoe drops and keeps falling and falling, never hitting ground. This is perhaps the least watchable piece of would-be film art I've ever seen. It's just painful. Spare yourself the wasted time.

flemur13013 Why kidnap someone? So they'll write an impassioned article with more than just data! What is the kidnapped woman going to write an impassioned article about? Dunno! The salt flats and the volcano existed before humans got there, but apparently the kidnapper doesn't know this, and thinks he did something to cause the salt flats, so he needs an impassioned article about why he's a jerk even though he's not a jerk except for kidnapping people for no good reason.The paramilitary guys standing around looking serious in their ski masks all over the place for no apparent reason were funny.Best part of the movie: reading about the salt flats and volcano on the internet after the movie was over; it's a strange part of the world.