As of late Oliver Stone has been responsible for movies that have induced the same effect on me as NyQuil. Being that
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and the George Bush Jr. biopic
W. were incredibly dull droolfests, the trailers for
Savages kind of blindsided me. It finally looked like Stone's return to his ultra-violent
Natural Born Killers roots, and possibly a return-to-form akin to Ridley Scott's with
Prometheus. But don't let the Eminem and Nate Dogg-infused ads fool you, this is just as lame, messy, and flat out boring as any of Stone's recent flicks. The film follows these three young fools, played by Taylor Kitsch (aka John Carter, or one of Disney's biggest screw-ups), Aaron Johnson, and Blake Lively, who is the film's narrator...good god. These three are responsible for growing California's best weed, and employ a lavish, "free" lifestyle, where both of the males share the girl and take turns screwing her (how classy). Devoid of personality, these rich and perfectly figured young people are the characters we are supposed to care about and side with.
There's really almost no story to this - just some uninteresting, generic conflict with the drug cartel. The cast includes Salma Hayek as the brains behind the cartel, John Travolta as a DEA agent, and Benicio Del Toro as a scringy Mexican drug cartel member. The only character I remotely found interesting was Del Toro's, and most of that just came from his own charisma. Not since
The Tree of Life has a movie made me want to leave so badly; besides the nice looking, colorful scenery, this sex and violence filled feature has no life behind its eyes.
Rating: D
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