  SavagesMPAA Rating:
 for strong brutal and grisly violence, some graphic sexuality, nudity, drug use and language throughout.Extremely Offensive
Moviemaking Quality:
Primary Audience:
Adults
Genre:
Crime Thriller Drama Adaptation
Length:
2 hr. 10 min.
Year of Release:
2012
USA Release:
July 6, 2012 (wide)
DVD: November 13, 2012 
 
Relevant Issues
FILM VIOLENCE—How does viewing violence in movies affect families? Answer illegal drug use marijuana use In real life, director Oliver Stone uses marijuana regularly and argues for its legalization in the U.S.—seeing only benefits in its legalization. Sex
lust and fornication PURITY—Should I save sex for marriage? Answer What are the consequences of sexual immorality? Answer
Buddhist
Why I stopped following Buddha and started following Jesus Christ? Answer Ten Questions I’d Ask If I Could Interview Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) Today Can mysticism lead to God? Answer personal story: Jesus Christ 2, Buddha 0
Producer’s synopsis: “Three-time Oscar®-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone returns to the screen with the ferocious thriller ‘Savages,’ featuring the all-star ensemble cast of Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, Aaron Johnson, John Travolta, Benicio Del Toro, Salma Hayek, and Emile Hirsch. The film is based on Don Winslow’s best-selling crime novel that was named one of The New York Times’ Top 10 Books of 2010.
“VOTING” FOR BAD MOVIES—Every time you buy a movie ticket or rent a video you are casting a vote telling Hollywood “That’s what I want.” Why does Hollywood continue to promote immoral programming? Are YOU part of the problem? Answer FILM VIOLENCE—How does viewing violence in movies affect families? Answer See list of Relevant Issues—questions-and-answers.   Movie Critics
“…Oliver Stone’s ferocious tale of a drug war gone wrong is a repellent, ridiculous mess.… Aggressively, defiantly stupid.… The superb craftsmanship and care behind Savages only helps to underscore what an asinine, unconvincing picture this is. …you get the feeling Stone regards the audience as idiots.…” “…The disreputable Oliver Stone of old makes a largely welcome reappearance with ‘Savages.’ Pungent, nasty and teeming with colorful crooked types, the writer-director’s most vibrant (and violent) work in some time is a bracingly sordid saga of two young hash growers, the Orange County princess they love and the vicious Mexican cartel they get entangled with; imagine ‘Jules and Jim’ with bombs and beheadings and you’re halfway there.…” “…The story does what such stories do, with sufficient ingenuity to keep you engaged and digressions that make the movie feel bigger than the sum of its events, some of which (be warned) are extremely grisly. It is, at bottom, a fable of business dealings gone wrong.…” “…OLIVER STONE examines the war on drugs in ‘Savages’ and finds it a mostly futile exercise, useful mainly as a source of garish material for wigged-out R-rated movies like this one.… The movie’s sporadic outbursts of violence, kinky interludes, exaggerated star turns, inventive use of music and Stone’s hyper technique give it a surface energy, but you may find yourself, after a time, less and less invested in the barbaric race to the behavioral bottom, played for grisly laughs.…” “…Ham-fisted tale of sex, drugs, murder… Subtlety has no place in …this movie.…” “…Stone gets out his chainsaw…” “…Despite his concerted efforts to sabotage it in the last five minutes, ‘Savages’ is Oliver Stone’s strongest work in years —a stylish, violent, hallucinatory thriller with both a mean streak and a devilish sense of humor. It’s not at all for the faint of heart. …Heads get blown apart and eyeballs dangle. …The operating assumption is that blowtorch hyper-realism is the only appropriate approach to this subject.…” Sorry, no other viewer comments received yet. If you have seen this movie and would like to share your observations and insights with others to be posted here, please contact us! |
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