Savages - A Review

1.5 Stars - Crap

So this film sucks, I mean really sucks. Its boring, the main characters are detestable, the supporting characters are equally detestable and its way too long.

The film does all its exposition through narration by Blake Lively which is poorly written and as soon as she says the line "just because I'm telling this story doesn't mean I'm alive at the end of it" anyone with a cynical enough mind like mine will know she's not going to die. Then the end comes and it looks like the main three characters and the two villains die in a shootout, then it pulls a Clue ending and says that's how it could have happened, but this is what did happen and no-one dies and no-one learns any kind of lesson. It is such a cop-out to an already terrible film.

I don't know how they expected us to sympathise with the main characters when they don't ever seem remotely kind or good, at least Salma Hayek was trying to repair her relationship with her daughter.

Maybe they should have got Danny Trejo...

In short, don't see this it sucks. Hard.