Is yet to be understood why Werner Herzog keep trying to obliterate his own legendary career producing films like the recent 'Salt and Fire'. Films that doesn't match his glorious cinematographic oeuvre. With 'Salt and Fire', the director wasted another opportunity to keep his mouth shut and preserve his glories from the past. In the process, he would have saved people time and resources. In the last few years, the impression is that Herzog was caught in his own myth, this 'Guerrilla Filmmaking' thing, the myth of the one who dropped the film school and by walking on foot and watching birds, understood how life works. Certainly, there is nothing wrong with this approach (when it's authentic), there is experiences that really makes one more sensitive to the nuances of life and it's complications. The problem is when this 'Rogue' thing turns into a brand for it's own sake, then when it's packaged and sold, the outcome is an unsalted product like 'Salt and Fire', a film that forces the viewer to be aware of the time wasting process. Herzog must have called his actors to a friend trip to Bolivia and said ''Don't worry, let's see what happen there, we need no script, let's improvise the whole thing up''. I constantly had the feeling of being wasting my potential as human being watching an exercise in bad taste aesthetic indulgence like this film is. I felt ashamed for Werner's narrowness. The film is just stupid and pointless at all senses. Judging by the film topics, it seems the director learned nothing from his life time experiences. Is sad to think of a guy who almost 50 years ago made a film like 'Even Dwarfs Started Small', with a filmography that includes films as 'Aguirre', 'Kaspar Hauser' and 'Fitzcarraldo' came up in 2016 with a film like 'Salt and Fire', permeated with shameful, stupid, beaten up philosophic morals that for a moment I thought he was joking, making a parody or mocking something. Sadly, this was not the case. It was a tragedy. This film is totally chicken.

It's an abomination to feature "reviews" by philistines who clearly have no more familiarity with films of distinction than mountain boars have with haute cuisine, which, of course, is wasted on them. They are like the ignorant savages who threw shade on Picasso because his revolutionary deconstruction of faces and figures violated their slavish and unimaginative devotion to representational art. Their obtuseness in the face of an artist like Herzog would not be lessened by my or anyone's efforts to enlighten them here. They are no doubt sealed in their benighted pits of uncomprehending intellectual quicksand for the remainder of their sad, ludicrous lives on earth. Instead of proudly demonstrating their unabashed ignorance here, they would be better advised to slink off to populate over-ripe venues like Rotten Tomatos.

Written (screenplay) and directed by Werner Herzog and starring Michael Shannon and Gael Garcia-Bernal I thought this had all the hallmarks of a great film. However never judge a book or indeed a DVD by its cover. Set somewhere we are not really bothered with we meet international scientists who are on their way to investigate an eco disaster that is man made. On arrival they are sort of kidnapped by a group of black clad and all powerful types led by Shannon.Then Veronica Ferres playing Dr Sommerfield gets taken off to some huge salt flats (actually in Bolivia) where she is abandoned with two blind twins whom she is supposed to look after. I am not sure if this is supposed to signify something deep and quite frankly by this stage of the ordeal I was beyond caring. Along the way there is lots of 'I am shouting therefore I am acting' type scenes, tons of meaningless and, would be, profound soliloquising which is only heightened in annoyance by the most puerile 'ethnic music' being dribbled over the top.Also everyone seems to act irrationally and the whole thing is just a mess. This is a classic of the sum does not equal its parts variety of film. I tried very hard to find some positives from this and I even though about eco messaging etc. In the end if the planet relies on these egocentric thugs to survive then its best off to be left waiting for the sun to burn out. Only watch if you are forced to and then put up a spirited resistance - recommended to be ignored by everyone.

Yes the scenery was stunning, but the movie was a waste of time, and nothing like the thriller that was expected. Totally boring & inexplicable, with no real action, & just no real explanation for anything that happens in the film. Yes the kids were cute, but what the hell was the kidnapping for? And how come she was so calm when faced with possible disaster. And where was the bit about the impending volcanic explosion that was supposed to need their cooperation? DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME ON THIS MOVIE!