ThiefHott Too much of everything

Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

SnoopyStyle General Rafael Leónidas Trujillo rules Dominican Republic from 1930 to 1961 with an iron fist. Minerva Mirabal (Salma Hayek) and her three sisters grew up on the farm. At school, Minerva catches the eye of Trujillo (Edward James Olmos). She starts to see injustices and wants to attend law school despite being forbidden for women. She falls for revolutionary Lio who escaped the country and called her butterfly. Minerva struggles against the attention of Trujillo and gains entrance into law school. After Lio's murder, she joins the resistance and Manolo Tavárez (Demian Bichir).I'm very sure that this is a compelling historical story. The problem is that it's done without any tension or suspense. Hayek is too old to play the younger Minerva. It's hard for her to play naive and innocent. The director doesn't have the style and the story is written blandly.

watusis The movie has a good story line but the actors did not look like Dominicans and I soon learned that it was filmed in Mexico and that explained why they nor the people in the filmed didn't look Dominican. After I envisioned it in Santo Domingo I did enjoy the Movie. But everyone looked Mexican so that really threw me off.The film is also based on a true story making it more interesting for me to view. I had heard of Trujillo regime but it was really interesting to view a story of a family affected during his tyranny. I want to share this movie with my mom and family who have also heard of Trujillo tyrades.

EdwardVI Seems like it was written by someone without film schooling, or even kidergarten education. It has the need to remind us of how bad was Trujillo in every moment of the picture: No imagination, no intelligence, an insult to any educated viewer.The acting is poor, someone even confused Marc Anthony with an actor, a recognized actress like Lumi Cavazos (Like Water for Chocolate) was given aproximately four lines in the entire movie, characters are non-existent, a butterfly would have more depth. A portrayal of the horrors of that era deserves an infinitely better film.

kortney-henderson the best movie yet this movie is sad and i did not like the way Rafael treated the people he was so mean and this movie almost made me cry and i would want to see this movie again also i think that the movie was very interesting and it showed me thing i never knew also the end of the movie made me want to cry because the tree sisters died and i think they should of sated alive instead of getting killed and i think they should make a part 2 so that the 3 sisters children could take over what they did also the sisters did very well in this movie and they should win a award for this movie because they really did some good acting also i learned a lot about this movie and all it takes is a little will power and you can do what ever