Fireflies at El Mozote vs Return of the Kickfighter
Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.2/10 for Return of the Kickfighter). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 33m. Return of the Kickfighter is the older of the two (1987 against 2025). Both are action, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Fireflies at El Mozote
Return of the Kickfighter| Fireflies at El Mozote | Return of the Kickfighter | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.2/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 1987 |
| Length | 1h 30m | 1h 33m |
| Genres | Action, Drama, History, War | Action, War |
| Country | United States of America | – |
| Director | Ernesto Melara | Anthony Maharaj |
| Main cast | Jeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo Shuk | Richard Norton, Dick Wei, Huang Kin-Lung, George E. Mahlberg, Rex Cutter |
Synopsis
Fireflies at El Mozote
During the 1980s civil war in El Salvador, a rebel group of leftist guerrillas fight to expose its government's death squads via an underground radio network and hope to end their government's reign of terror with the help of an American journalist.
Return of the Kickfighter
The plot concerns a unit of US marines operating in the Vietnam war during 1970, with the movie opening on a raid in a village. After massacring the villagers, the marines steal the villages gold, much to the objection of their Vietnamese translator and guide. Skip forward past the credits sequence; it's now 15 years later, and members of the unit are getting murdered one by one. This leads to the former head of the group, now a high ranking…
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