Interesteg
What makes it different from others?
SpecialsTarget
Disturbing yet enthralling
Afouotos
Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
Michael Ledo
Chon (Taylor Kitsch) is an ex-Navy SEAL. He grows some fine pot with his close friend and botanist Ben (Aaron Johnson). They share a girlfriend in Ophelia (Blake Lively) who fills in the plot points with narration and claims just because she is telling the story doesn't mean she will be alive at the end. I found her story telling irritating at times.As fate would have it, the evil Mexican cartel wants to combine businesses. Our guys tell them, they want out, and they can have the whole thing. The Mexicans didn't like that answer. In order to ensure cooperation the cartel kidnaps Ophelia as the guys form a rescue plan. Ben must quickly learn to kill without the aid of any training or a music montage. Our heroes must walk a fine line between disrupting the cartel while working for them.I liked Oliver Stone more when he made his historical films with a "truthiness" aspect to them. Now he thinks he is Tarantino. The film was certainly watchable and made very well. I believe it was beneath Stone to have done the film. The ending I thought was a mess and needed better developing...but at the same time if Tarantino did it, it would be genius. This is a love it or hate it type of film. I will take the middle ground.PARENTAL GUIDE: F-bombs, sex, nudity, brief rape, torture.
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.
iamthealex
Well after watching this title again I say whoa, a great film involving love, brutality, life and everything in between. The story goes three drug dealers go head to head with the Mexican cartel and all out mayhem ensues, frenetic filmmaking by the very talented Oliver Stone. Returning to form, known for such films as Scarface, Natural Born Killers and many more straight up intense pictures!!I chose the uncut version which at times was some what kinda hard to watch, but included more characterizations which was pretty sweet! A roller-coaster of Amazing performances brutal violence and a great emotional story giving it a 7.9 out if 10Plus a not so bad narration by Blake Lively :), which people would make u believe !!!!
jitesalex
The Director had two options from the first frame of the film. They are make it crappier or just crap. I believe he took the former. One. Salma Hayek. You make her talk "dhoo dhis" doesn't make her Mexican. Such a waste of her potential. I might ask her, why she accepted this role. Two. Things fall in place in a movie so easily when the director didn't think much. A very crappy direction/story line. Three. The rape victim kills the rapist. Yeah yeah yeah. we have seen that in all Hindi movies? There was no thoughts if at all the director wanted his film to end punishing the bad and yeah, the good lives. Four. Last twenty minutes are just made up to catch up the 50% of the story, emotions, etc... which the Director wasted earlier. So all happens as I like it, I a B-movie watcher.I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone.
