Review: Savages (2012)

[GregMO ROberts]

When I began to see trailers for Oliver Stone’s new film Savages, I got a tad excited. Stone has been a rut for far too long. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, W, Alexander – they were all disappointments. Especially since they were coming from the man who brought us Natural Born Killers, Platoon and Wall Street.

But early clips and trailers had me hold out hope that Savages was more Scarface than World Trade Centre. More JFK than Nixon.

The result is a mix of good and bad. A mix that ultimately leaves your appetite slightly unnourished.

As trailers clearly spell out, Savages is full of guns, drugs and threesomes. It stars Taylor Kitsh (Chon) and Aaron Johnson (Ben) as two entrepreneurs who deal in the selling of drugs – specifically marijuana. They are connected by O (Blake Lively) who just so happens to be intimate with both of the business partners.

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[UNCLE FRANK]

Nice review Greg, sounds like its worth the watch.

[GregMO ROberts]

I thinnk it is. It isn't perfect and Stone has a reputation that is hard to match. But this was an uneven, but ultimately passable action/drug/threesome pic

[DEADstar]

Its either this or Ted tomorrow.... I'm leaning towards Ted.

[Dusty B]

I'm probably more interested in seeing this than anything else out right now. I'm one of the few that loves U-Turn along with most everything else Stone has done so I'm fairly excited for it.