Savages

A film by Oliver Stone. For those of you that like Oliver Stone movies, he's made several excellent ones, you should probably watch this and you will enjoy it. If you're not familiar with Oliver Stone's documentary style, gritty realism, and unbelievable conspiracy theory, theme and elements – you may find this movie not to your liking. The blood, gore, sex, drugs and violence are extremely graphic. The story revolves around the California medical marijuana and the illegal marijuana, drug trade between Mexico and the US. The Mexican cartel boss, Selma Hayek, is fun and an interesting character. The Mexican assassin is very familiar, forget his name, though he is popular. John Travolta plays the corrupt DEA agent, and three unknown actors – two guys and a girl – are the central characters. All of them do a very believable and credible job of acting. However, there were a few lines in the movie that Oliver should've left out. "I love you man!" In the middle of an intense action scene, was unnecessary. And, when the young girl referred to the threesome as being like the characters in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid" I wanted to eject the disc and search Netflix for that much better and more heartwarming story. I'm sure Oliver Stone just wanted to pay respect to that film classic, but he needs to consider his audience – old folks like me who grew up loving that movie will resent the comparison – while younger folks who had never seen the classic Western would just be thinking "what the heck did that mean?" Other than that, I've got no real complaints. It was a decent movie, good action and interesting story. Oliver just needs to lighten up a little bit.