Savages

Name: Savages
Released: 2012-7-6
Cast: Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, Aaron Johnson, John Travolta, Benicio Del Toro

Savages

R
2h 10m
2012

50%

age 18+

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Three-time Oscar®-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone brings to life this ferocious, sexy epic. In a glittering California beach town, two best friends’ innovative marijuana business has come to the attention of the ruthless Mexican Baja Cartel. As a seemingly unwinnable war unfolds around them, they’re forced to take part in a savage battle of wills to save the girl they both love. Starring Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, Aaron Johnson, John Travolta, Benicio del Toro and Salma Hayek, Savages is “a stylish, violent, hallucinatory thriller.” (Ty Burr, Boston Globe)

Director:

Oliver Stone

Producer:

Moritz Borman, Eric Kopeloff

Writer:

Shane Salerno, Don Winslow, Oliver Stone

Cast:

Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, Aaron Johnson, John Travolta, Benicio Del Toro, Salma Hayek, Demian Bichir, Emile Hirsch

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

50%

Critics Consensus: It's undeniably messy, but Savages finds Oliver Stone returning to dark, fearlessly lurid form.

Reviews

TheIndependentCritic.com

Richard Propes

Savages all too often feels overly stylized, emotionally manipulative, and detached in the worst of ways.

"Savages" winds up a charade, almost a spoof of the kind of movie it claims to be. It wants to push buttons, it wants to incite debate, it wants to have something to say and be more important that it is. But there's nothing behind it.

It's gory, it's horribly flawed and it features some pretty bad acting, yet Savages is fun and exciting if you don't take any of it seriously.

Nothing in an Oliver Stone movie is ever subtle, and this one is no exception. But Kitsch, rebounding from two flops that were hardly his fault (John Carter, Battleship), proves his mettle with a tight-wound, fine-tuned performance.

July 31, 2019

FULL REVIEW

Bowling Green Daily News

Micheal Compton

A film that is fascinating to watch for the most part, and never dull, but without anyone for whom the audience can have a real rooting interest.

April 11, 2019

FULL REVIEW

Common Sense Media

age 18+

Common Sense Says

Oliver Stone thriller is all about sex, drugs, violence.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that Savages (from director Oliver Stone) is about two drug dealers who share the same girlfriend (Gossip Girl's Blake Lively) and must rescue her after she's kidnapped by a powerful cartel. There are strong sex scenes, one scene of full-frontal nudity by a minor female character, and lots of pot smoking, as well as some drinking and cigarette smoking. You can also expect graphic violence, including women being kidnapped and held prisoner (with sexual assault implied), guns and shooting, lots of blood, severed heads, brains blown out, exploding cars, a man being tortured and burned alive, and many dead bodies. Language is also strong, with uses of "f--k" and other words throughout.