Friday, August 24, 2012
Savages (2012)
Oliver Stone returns with “Savages,” a grisly
flick that follows drug dealer best friends who
sell California’s most-in-demand weed. Chon (Taylor Kitsch) is scared-by-war ex-military, while Ben (Aaron Johnson) is a hippie botanist with a penchant for mission work. They are yin
and yang, with O (Blake Lively), the surfer girl drug addict they share an
ocean-side home and bed with, in circle’s center. “Savages” gets to its title fast
as a Mexican drug cartel (led by Salma Hayek) busts in with a do-or-die business
proposal. This is a nasty and sickly funny production, hallucinogenic as
anything Stone has made. Yet gun-shot holes pop loud as a double-barreled
ending serves ludicrously tragic followed by ludicrously pat, while much dialogue
grinds as when O speaks of Chon: “I have orgasms, he has wargasms.”
Huh? Loved: How Hayek and her thugs look on perplexed as the gringos piss away
life and family. Hated: Hayek deliciously serves up the notion that the guys
love each other more so than O, and the revelation is left dead and forgotten like the myriad bodies that fill this tale. The “Butch Cassidy”
references only hinder. B-
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