Reviews for this film from our members:
- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Le belve, il nuovo film di Oliver Stone, tratto dal romanzo Savages di Don Winslow parrebbe una parentesi disimpegnata, su commissione, per un regista che ha sempre indagato il potere americano, quello politico, quello militare e quello economico.
- [New – 2/7] | Dragan Antulov @ Draxblog VI [Croatian]
- Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Excerpt: Stone tries to hang this grand operatic course of events and deep human emotions around the necks of three woefully uninteresting characters.
- Peter Canavese @ GrouchoReviews.com
- Excerpt: Oliver Stone, bless ’im, still believes in red-meat cinema.
- Stephen Carty @ Flix Capacitor
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Tony Dayoub @ Cinema Viewfinder
- Excerpt: On the worst end of the Oliver-Stone-is-batshit spectrum you get a dated movie like NATURAL BORN KILLERS (1994), and on the best you get the sublimely absurd U-TURN (1997). The mediocre SAVAGES plays it safely down the middle.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Kimberly Gadette @ doddle
- Excerpt: Don Winslow’s particular brand of crackling wit gets lost somewhere between the page and the screen. And that third act is a disjointed mess…
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Vadym Grygoriev @ kinoblog.com [Ukrainian]
- Jesse Hassenger @ The L Magazine
- Matt Looker @ TheShiznit.co.uk
- Excerpt: A film that – while stylish and home to some great comic beats – ultimately feels mediocre and flat.
- Joe Lozito @ Big Picture Big Sound
- Excerpt: Despite a quick pace and a few flashes of brutal violence, Oliver Stone’s narcotics thriller feels sanitized, like a drug that’s been cut one too many times.
- Dan Lybarger @ Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
- Excerpt: Multiple Oscar-winner Oliver Stone has written and directed movies about combat all his career. With Savages, the mind behind Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July has apparently declared unconditional war on subtlety.
- Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: Savages feels as if Oliver Stone somehow found a way to stream his thoughts on celluloid for the world to devour at their leisure. It’s bright, vibrant, random, illogical, contrary, obtuse, surreal and visceral – often all at the same time.
- Scott Nye @ Battleship Pretension
- Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
- Jamie S. Rich @ DVD Talk
- Jonathan Richards @ jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: Oliver Stone must be smoking the same stuff as Quentin Tarantino these days. Savages has the feel of a Pulp Fiction mixed grill of violence and sadism served with gleeful splashes of tongue-in-cheek hot sauce. From the opening amateur video of a mass decapitation through summary executions, kneecappings, stabbings, explosions, and firefights, this movie uses gore the way Walt Disney used cute animals.
- Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: Great as an inside look at the drug world, but as a caper, it comes up a little short.
- Diego Salgado @ Miradas de Cine [Spanish]
- Diego Salgado @ FanDigital [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Interesting coming back from Oliver Stone.
- Diego Salgado @ FanDigital [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Interesting coming back from director Oliver Stone.
- Norm Schrager @ Paste Magazine
- Excerpt: … while Travolta, Del Toro and Hayek happily chew the scenery—hell, the latter two practically devour it—far too much of the film wants to be taken seriously.
- Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Oliver Stone revs up the crime thriller genre with an energetic video-nasty that keeps up with modern sensibilities regarding sex, drugs, and violence.
- Frank Swietek @ One Guy’s Opinion
- Jean-François Vandeuren @ Panorama-cinema.com
- Phil Villarreal @ OKMagazine.com
- George Zervopoulos @ Movies Ltd [Greek]
