Savages may come off choppy in the very beginning, but it does springboards to a really fantastical second half.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 8, 2017

An unabashedly lurid sun-and-surf ménage-à-trois cum drug-running caper, with touches of Jacobean tragedy for good measure.

| Jun 20, 2013

The film would have been so much more interesting if the two men had been identical twins played by the same actor-like Jeremy Irons in David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers.

| Jun 17, 2013

Amid all the violence and profanity, Oliver Stone reveals a begrudging respect for his damned characters.

| Feb 12, 2013

The messy insouciance wears a little thin, and by the time we get to the absurdity of the extended ending, enough is definitely enough.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 18, 2012

The three leads are a bit on the bland side but perhaps that's the way California potheads are. Del Toro and Travolta are terrific in their more interesting roles.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2012

Neither big nor clever. Savage is right.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 21, 2012

Far too prolix and more than a little absurd.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 21, 2012

A disappointing dip in the shallow end. Forgettable.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 20, 2012

Savages plays up to Stone's worst tendencies: machismo, bombast and self-indulgence, and the factor that could conceivably have made this movie tolerable - humour - is off the menu.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 20, 2012

Adapting a bestselling novel by Don Winslow, Stone seems to think he is screenwriting Scarface again.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 20, 2012

If Stone wanted to make even Tony Scott's lousiest movies look like masterworks, he's gone about it brilliantly.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 20, 2012

It all smacks of trying too hard to mask the absence of strong material.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 18, 2012

A simplistic thriller that offers very little, especially given who is behind the camera.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 16, 2012

Stone devotes considerable ingenuity to making atrocity appear as a terrifying kind of home movie, but "Savages" is no more than a summertime debauch.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2012

These are neither good people nor interesting savages, and they're not worth caring about. Neither is the movie.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 12, 2012

After all the fun we have with Del Toro's murderous perv, Travolta's crooked cop, and Hayek's sentimental cartel head, we return to the artificial heart of the story of the pot-smoking, gun-toting threesome.

| Jul 7, 2012

Not a Lively fan? You won't last five minutes. In it for the action? I give you 30 minutes. Enjoy looking at Johnson and Kitsch? You might make it to the midpoint.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 6, 2012

Compared to the successful over-the-top performances of the veterans, the three younger leads seem flat and lifeless.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 6, 2012

Savages points to a problem with gifted directors, which Stone is, like him or not: They can make a movie that aggravates, infuriates, falters even, but they can really make a movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 6, 2012