ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Matylda Swan It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

kosmasp Revolutions are never easy. And sometimes they demand sacrifice. Sacrifice of many things to achieve something for a later generation. It's a tough movie to watch for many reasons, but it's also not taking prisoners (literally at times), which you might like about it or dismiss. But that's how things can go down, when there is uproar.We might live in societies today that don't have to fight for certain things, but it's not too much of a stretch to see why and how some had to fight for freedom of speech or religion or other things. The movie depicts a real life event/incidents, which might appall some viewers from the get go, but if you like Drama and History in general, this might be for you. I haven't read too much about how things went down exactly, but I reckon this movie made me aware of a chapter I hadn't had heard about before ...

mc1966 The war between the atheist Mexican government and the Cristeros is a little-known part of history, which well deserves being known, since it is said that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". And history does repeat itself, with so many - and especially Christians - being persecuted because of their faith in our days as well. The film makes an especially good job in showing the impact on characters' lives of the sudden shift between ordinary times, the ending of religious freedom, and the subsequent revolt. Peaceful priests becoming guerrilla commanders, soldiers transforming into mindless slaughterers of their own people, and boys becoming martyrs. These shifts can occur quite quickly, and this gives the message that we should be very careful to defend our current well- being at all times. The cast does an overall good job in acting. However, what I didn't like much was the direction of the movie, which alternated standard western-style action with relatively slow-moving and predictable dialogs.

pepinator2000 It is disturbing how these known American actors were willing to be part of this extreme right wing Sinarquist propaganda movie. Maybe sometime we Mexicans will afford making a movie about American history where we get everything wrong, like for instance making a movie glorifying and raising Timothy McVeigh to the status of a martyr; yeah, nonsense, that is what this movie is, a bunch of nonsense.The events of the movie happen when Mexico was in a stage of reconstruction after several decades of civil war, after an endless list of random generals tried to seize power and kept killing one another in the middle of countrywide chaotic uprisings.At that point in history, when we finally had achieved peace and the last thing we wanted was yet another uprising while nurturing our young democracy, letting the Church interfere in politics was more than unacceptable. What happens next? These bunch of cristeros upraise against the government.Mexico would be worse than it is now if those religious extremists had won. Mexico would not be a secular state now if Calles had not acted as he did.Why people would bash Calles for defending our laical state? Mexico would be worse if it was one of those religious wackos driven states.Achieving the separation of the Church from the State cost us too much blood in the 19th century just to let an uprising of traitors change that. And now it turns out that keeping our country secular was some sort of deranged Calles' evil agenda. Stupid movie.Those people hanging from those posts, had it coming.Oh and portraying the Catholic bishops as innocent servants of God with no other agenda than serving Jesus was laughable. I wonder if someone actually believes that.Finally, that kid being tortured like Jesus Christ was too much. Sinarquist propaganda.

fgholguiniii History is written by Hollywood but i get bummed out on movies where the heroes lose. The acting was good, the story was awesome, the fight scenes were well made this is a grade A movie. The only thing i had a problem with was the long drawn out talking and planning with the characters. It was just like the writers slapped something together to make the film longer? For me the kids death scene was to much as well. There were no women fighters as well it just showed them cooking and smuggling ammo. In the real wars the women fought along side of the men that is why Mexican women are so tough. So i kind of felt it was a little disrespectful towards the women who did fight along side of the men in these wars. This was a very important lesson in history and now we can see why our founding fathers wrote in our Declaration of Independence the importance of freedom of religion. Good movie i wouldn't pay at the movies (10 dollars) to see it but i would definitely rent it on a rainy day from Redbox (99 cents) and watch it. It would have been a better movie if it was more realistic.