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Metascore
22 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanJohn Sayles's Amigo aspires more to educate than entertain, but it's no less engrossing for that.
- 75The A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonThe A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonUltimately, Amigo is as much about Iraq and Afghanistan as it is about a century-old chapter of history - and it's as much about human nature as it is about either era.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterRay BennettThe Hollywood ReporterRay BennettIt's an impressive movie, but the indie filmmaker has little to add to the debate beyond the eternal truth that the innocent always suffer most.
- 60Boxoffice MagazineBarbara GoslawskiBoxoffice MagazineBarbara GoslawskiA complex political statement, Amigo is epic in scale but trades the schmaltz of the traditional war film for a more resolute treatment of subject.
- 60Time OutDavid FearTime OutDavid FearAmigo's penchant for polemics keeps upsetting any semblance of balance; how can anyone hear the grace notes when the soapboxing is so deafening?
- 55MovielineMichelle OrangeMovielineMichelle OrangeThe result is the double shrift of a thinly sketched background and a story that has trouble standing up on its own.
- 50Slant MagazineSlant MagazineAmigo finds John Sayles rather closer to his worst, alternating gracelessly between fleshing out the characters caught in the middle of international conflict and turning them into dots and arrows in a flowchart of historical relevance.
- 50VarietyJoe LeydonVarietyJoe LeydonGood intentions can't breathe fresh life into cliches or dispel the overall impression of schematic didacticism.
- 50TimeRichard CorlissTimeRichard CorlissThe problem is that this pot of intrigue takes ages to boil, and the cook refuses to turn up the heat. And if vitality is not an element Sayles cherishes, neither is nuance.