Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Tacticalin An absolute waste of money

Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

just_an_ambulance Its just bad. The cheesy voice overs are cringe worthy, the fact that two guys and one woman live together with strings free sex, the not caring when they get a video with people having their heads chopped off and the fact they clearly couldn't decide which ending to use so threw them both in.... I think I made a world record for eye rolls.The acting is bad and so is the story.Benicio and Selma are wasted in this film. Maybe they did is as a favour, I dunno...Oh and why the films called savages and that they will live like savages link even though they move to Indonesia. Do they think people don't know Indonesia is a modern society??I'm annoyed I watched this heap of fungus.

robbotnik2000 There is a sourness to human nature in many if not all of the movies of Oliver Stone. Good mechanical talents to the films, but a lousy attitude on the part of characters and events that comes straight from Stone. My objections are based on general and specific occurrences. The general issue is that Stone will not play fair with objective truth (JFK). Specifically, he celebrates a rottenness on the part of his characters (NBK). As to specifics, my limit was reached when in Savages (spoiler) an assassination was carried out to the opening music of Brahms' First Symphony. That was enough to turn me off of Stone then and forever.

Prismark10 Twenty years ago an Oliver Stone film would be an event but the director has become wayward of late.This marks a return to form but it revisits his screenplay of Scarface too much in places aided with his kinetic camera work and filming style used in Natural Born Killers but here it hinders the flow.Ben (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) is peace loving hippy Buddhist and his best buddy Chon (Taylor Kitsch) a former soldier have developed the best type of marijuana which have made them successful in southern California.Both also share the same woman Ophelia (Blake Lively) and life is going swimmingly until the Mexican Baja Cartel demands that they join forces with them and later kidnap Ophelia.The cartel is ruthlessly led by Elena (Salma Hayek) her brutal enforcer Lado (Benicio Del Toro) wants Elena but also realises he needs to make his own moves.Ben and Chon realise they need to take on the cartel and free Ophelia and they can only do this with the help of the slippery and crooked DEA agent (John Travolta) a man who has worked out all the angles.The film is hampered by the constant narration by Lively as well as her performance which is less than lively. She certainly looks like someone who enchant two best friends but she can never mesmerise the audience.Kitsch's character is one dimensional, just a gung ho grunt which leaves Johnson to make up for the shortcomings of the two main leads. At least his character is more subtle learning the hard way that being involved in the drugs trade does not go hand in hand with being a peace loving beatnik. He has to toughen up and gets his hands bloody.The film works mainly because of the supporting actors. Hayek, Travolta (with his natural balding hairline) Bichir and Del Toro make the most of their thin characterisations, people who are rooted to their families despite being savages.Stone makes up for the rest with his filming style with an operatic approach to violence but why were we presented with an alternate version of the climax?

Python Hyena Savages (2012): Dir: Oliver Stone / Cast: Taylor Kitsch, Aaron Johnson, Blake Lively, Salma Hayek, Benicio Del Toro: The title pretty much sums up the greed every single character in this film lives by. Taylor Kitsch and Aaron Johnson play two successful dope manufacturers who share a girlfriend. The three of them live in their own doped up illusion of paradise until a larger competitor desires to partner with them. Kitsch fought in the Iraq war and feels no threat, whereas Johnson desires to leave the business. When an agreement is not met, their lives are threatened with the kidnapping of their girlfriend. This is a brutal film echoing Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers or U-Turn. This becomes pointless with scenes of torture where eye balls dangle from sockets. This level of violence can reduce one's faith in the director's faith in his own material. Stone has an eye for detail and the screenplay examines these relationships effectively although the double climax nearly kills the film with its laughable impact. Kitsch and Johnson are effective. Kitsch is fearless and determined with confident military backing. Johnson is paranoid but focused during negotiations. Blake Lively plays the caged girlfriend, drugged yet manages to engage a dinner conversation with the ruthless Madam, played by Salma Hayek whose daughter detests her illegal lifestyle, and she sees an attachment with Lively. Benicio Del Toro plays Hayek's ruthless henchman whose methods are deplorable and brutal. The film demonstrates the reality of such business can resort, and the paradise delusion conceal its savage reality. Score: 8 / 10