Savages (2012)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2012
	Director: Oliver Stone
	Actors: Benicio del Toro, Salma Hayek, Aaron Johnson, Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively
	Country: USA
	Genre: Thriller
	Conditions of visioning: 29.06.2013, DVD
Synopsis: Entrepreneurs Ben, a peaceful and charitable marijuana producer, and friend Chon, a former Navy SEAL, run a lucrative, homegrown industry - raising some of the best weed ever developed. They also share a one-of-a-kind love with Ophelia. Life is idyllic in their Southern California town... until the Mexican Baja Cartel decides to move in and demands that the trio partners with them. When the merciless head of the BC, Elena and her enforcer, Lado, underestimate the unbreakable bond of the three friends, Ben and Chon - with the reluctant assistance of a dirty DEA agent - wage a seemingly unwinnable war against the cartel. And so begins a series of increasingly vicious ploys and maneuvers in a high stakes, savage battle of wills.
Review: The movie shows cruel acts and is a conventional thriller with Mexican drug dealers and American heroes, where the Mexican look first as huge maffia but are set into pieces by the clever surfers. Behind this conventional movie, Oliver Stone explains at the end only what he meant with savages. Not the brutal Lado (excellent acting of Benicio del Toro), but the surfers and their junky girlfriend O. Savage is not to be mixed with the idea of Bon sauvage, noble savage. The idea behind is not so bad, but the movie completely misses this goal.
Rating: 4 /10