Savages

Oliver Stone returns to his dark side in this examination of a drug turf war in Southern California. A peaceful and charitable Buddhist and his closest friend, a former Navy SEAL and ex-mercenary, run a lucrative, home-grown industry, raising some of the best marijuana ever developed. They also share a one-of-a-kind love with the extraordinary beauty Ophelia. Then the Mexican Baja Cartel decides to move in and demands that the trio partners with them. When the merciless head of the BC and her brutal enforcer underestimate the unbreakable bond among these three friends, they wage a seemingly unwinnable war against the cartel. And so begins a series of increasingly vicious ploys and manoeuvres in a high stakes, savage battle of wills.

131 minutes.
No persons under 18 (Language, Sex, Violence, Drug abuse).
Crime, Drama, Thriller.

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.

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Credits

Cast	Blake Lively, Taylor Kitsch, Aaron Johnson, Benicio Del Toro, John Travolta, Salma Hayek
Director	Oliver Stone
Screenplay	Shane Salerno, Don Winslow, Oliver Stone, from the novel by Don Winslow
Music	Adam Peters
Cinematography	Daniel Mindel
Editing	Joe Hutshing, Stuart Levy, Alex Marquez
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, Datasat
Soundtrack	Available
Made in	2012
Produced by	Ixtlan, Relativity Media, Onda Entertainment

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Action
Language	Strong, fairly frequent
Nudity	Buttocks in sexual context, breasts in mildly suggestive context
Sex	Strongly implied, not explicit, impactful
Violence	Strong, frequent, graphic, gory, torture and rape, bloody and realistic
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	Strong and frequent use of drugs that is glamourised and instructional. Drug dealing also glamourised.
Comments	Very menacing and threatening.
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ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Cape Argus / The Star Theresa Smith Crazy, stylish... and going nowhere.	10
Die Burger Laetitia Pople Stone steek barbaarse naald in dwelmstryd.	15
Cape Times Todd McCarthy Movie adaptation dark, gory.	10
Box Office Pete Hammond Oliver Stone returns to his comfort zone in this blood-soaked, sex and drug-fueled ride that returns the three-time Oscar winner to territory he mined so successfully in past films.	15
Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert	18
ScreenIt T. Durgin The problem is it's a well-made dud.	8
Metacritic.com 39 critics	12
Rottentomatoes critics 131 critics	12
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer It's undeniably messy, but Savages finds Oliver Stone returning to dark, fearlessly lurid form.	11
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	12
Movie Review Intelligence 47 critics	13
What the People say
Internet 8818 Netizens welcome to snoozefest !!	14
Average .. 63%	13