Spoonixel Amateur movie with Big budget

AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Rodrigo Amaro If "Silver City" has powerful attributes that makes you desperately see this film it's because of an talented ensemble casting of actors, and a quite instigating story written, edited and directed by the great John Sayles. But the movie delivers and fulfills our wishes? Half way through to some, a disappointment to others. To me, it wasn't appealing enough like "City of Hope", another ensemble of actors directed by Sayles. With a peculiar and sometimes not much visual sense of humor, Sayles presents a satire on irresponsible but populist politics during their election campaign. The candidate in question is Richard Pilager (Chris Cooper), running for governor of Colorado, a man who never knows how to stay silent when he should since he never knows what's he talking about, often advised by his campaign manager Chuck (Richard Dreyfuss) what to do and when. During the filming of one of those promos Pilager fishes a dead man's body and the story goes on after finding who was the man, on investigations conducted by Danny (Danny Huston), an former reporter involved in a scandal, now working as a investigator for Chuck. Illegal immigrants; exploration of lands and profit versus lack of security of poor workers; Pilager family scandals; the construction of a place named Silver City; strange connection among powerful people; these and more are part of the complex and half interesting web of "Silver City".The major problem with satires is to find the right way to do it, the perfect balance between comedy and drama, and more challenging than that is to make a big social denounce that is so funny to make you laugh and feel some desperation in seeing how things are so dramatical, so frightening. "Wag the Dog" and "Doctor Strangelove" are perfect examples of how satire must be made, they're funny and at the same time they make relevant, shocking statements of the current historical moment the artists lived. Sayles almost hits the spot. Making an comparison with one of the movie's characters, an archer (Daryl Hannah), the director throws the arrow, hits the target but not in the right point, in the heart. His ambition is an critic to the likes of George W. Bush, politicians who act like dumb in order to get sympathy for the crowd; man who are manipulated by the real powerful ones in charge of everything while he's just the face for the disaster; he's the one people blame. OK, we get that from scene one but if you have to make a satire on this you gotta push harder, make something fierce enough to shake some structures, make fun of everyone linked with this character, but the movie never does that. The very few mocked in this are Pilager and people of his campaign; the other character were treated like serious liberals that have one or two funny moments. And where's the tension (built from the fishing scene) we needed when everything Danny was investigating led to dangerous secrets but nothing substantial or deadly happened? If you're a Sayles fan you must remember all the thrilling parts of "Matewan" when we couldn't control our hearts, always thinking that the something is going to explode between the coal miners and their bosses. Tension was in the air! The same thing was supposed to occur here but it went too much soft, it wanted to be very light and funny. It goes well in making fun of people without being hysterical, it never goes for the stereotypes and that's great to see.While the script is too talky, quite confusing, little tedious to make you sleepy, the acting cannot be blamed, all first rate performances with good and strong by Cooper (always excellent), Dreyfuss, Huston (really great playing the "hero"), Maria Bello, David Clennon, Tim Roth, Thora Birch, Miguel Ferrer, James Gammon, Mary Kay Place, Sal Lopez, Billy Zane, Michael Murphy and Kris Kristofferson. I advise you to watch if you enjoy all those actors and enjoy dialog driven films. It's a good film that goes to show an contradictory way some powerful people tend to make things, revealing truths on one side but covering it with thousands of lies under the rug on another side. It's a nice way to see why we can't trust in politics and the people who make it. 7/10

tieman64 John Sayles directs "Silver City", a well meaning but dumb attack on George Bush, powerless media types, morally bankrupt politicians, campaign managers, fear-mongers, government spin-doctors and evil corporations.The film takes the format of a classic noir (now a tradition incapable of mapping our increasingly complex world), our investigative hero uncovering dark truths as he progresses through Sayles' labyrinth, but everything is handled in a clunky manner, points made directly and obviously, the audience forced to sit back and passively take Sayles' lowbrow sermonizing.Sayles has always been a humourless director, so no surprise that his attempts at satire fall flat here. It also doesn't help that postmodernism is slowly killing off the critical function of satire. Today, all reality is already "satire", such that a whole new type of abstract distancing is required (which is why one of the few effective satires of today, "South Park", literally has to reduce its targets to cardboard cutouts).3/10 – One of Sayles' worst. Actor Chris Cooper, always wonderful in Sayles' films, makes some of it bearable, but it's not enough.

Cosmoeticadotcom Lost in the glare of Michael Moore's 2004 pseudo-documentary Fahrenheit 911 was independent filmmaker John Sayles' far more incisive filmic take on politics called Silver City. While Moore's film was a frontal assault on the George W. Bush administration, Sayles' film was less a jab at Right Wing politics, although it clearly was, and more an assault on the sliminess of politics in general. I was surprised at how good the film was, considering all the negative reviews it got from critics. Is it a great film, in league with Sayles' best? No. But it's light years beyond typical Hollywood fare- especially bigger budgeted films like the Clinton era's Wag The Dog.The film it most resembles is Roman Polanski's Chinatown, although set in contemporary Colorado, and this film having a lighter feel- in terms of the cinematography and humor…. t's a shame that this film was swamped by so many other screechy films, such as Fahrenheit 911 and Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ, for it deserved it, despite its bad ending. The best thing about Sayles is that he is unpredictable- save that he writes and directs stellar adult dramas, and given his last several films, that aspect of his work seems to be in no danger of diminishing.

Lola-44 Honestly, one of the worst written, directed and acted movies I have ever seen. Seemed like a made-for-TV movie. And a bad one at that. I cannot believe that people are still hiring Danny Huston after seeing him in this movie, or that they are still allowing John Sayles to make films. My husband and I came across this movie on TV one night and got so bored with it, we ended up cleaning the house while it was on . . . and it still bored us! It made me think that critics have been so gullible with Sayles' previous films, such as Lone Star, which was raved about at he time but didn't really add up to much in the end. Spend your time on something better. Anything.