Over Thanksgiving break, AT&T offered every movie channel for free. So I went on a recording spree of anything I hadn't seen (or possibly heard of) before. For Greater Glory is one of those movies that I hadn't heard of that turns out to be pretty good. I finally got around to watching it over the past day or so. The biggest names from the movie I can think of are Andy Garcia, Eva Longoria, Peter O'Toole, and Rubn Blades.
It's about the Mexican civil war between the government and religious citizens in 1926. And I'm not talking about a "rhetorical" war. I'm talking about executing priests and hanging people from telephone poles as far as the eye can see type war. I consider myself historically informed, but I had never heard anything about this at all. I had to look up stuff on my phone during the movie because it seemed too cliche to be real. Sure enough, the stuff I looked up pretty much happened like the movie portrayed.
It has a Rotten Tomato critic score of 20% and a audience score of 77%. I tend to like anything good that pisses off critics, since they are typically morons worthy of mocking. If you are into historical drama, then I think this is worth your time.
It's about the Mexican civil war between the government and religious citizens in 1926. And I'm not talking about a "rhetorical" war. I'm talking about executing priests and hanging people from telephone poles as far as the eye can see type war. I consider myself historically informed, but I had never heard anything about this at all. I had to look up stuff on my phone during the movie because it seemed too cliche to be real. Sure enough, the stuff I looked up pretty much happened like the movie portrayed.
It has a Rotten Tomato critic score of 20% and a audience score of 77%. I tend to like anything good that pisses off critics, since they are typically morons worthy of mocking. If you are into historical drama, then I think this is worth your time.
