Savages

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Savages

R,

2012,

2h 10m,

Crime/

Drama/

Mystery & Thriller

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California entrepreneurs Ben (Aaron Johnson) and Chon (Taylor Kitsch) run a lucrative business raising marijuana and share a one-of-a-kind love with beautiful O (Blake Lively). Life in Laguna Beach is idyllic for them, until Elena (Salma Hayek), the merciless leader of the Mexican Baja Cartel, moves in and demands a piece of the action. However, Elena underestimates the trio's unbreakable bond, and with the help of a shady DEA agent (John Travolta), Ben, Chon and O go to war.

Critics Consensus

It's undeniably messy, but Savages finds Oliver Stone returning to dark, fearlessly lurid form.

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Candice Frederick

Reel Talk Online

Sep 8, 2017

B+

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

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Scott Foundas

Film Comment Magazine

Jun 20, 2013

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

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David Thomson

The New Republic

Jun 17, 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.

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Don Shanahan

Every Movie Has a Lesson

Jul 28, 2025

1/5

If you've seen one drug dealer/drug cartel movie, you've seen them all, and you'll need a shower after this one.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Oct 4, 2023

1/4

Viewer agony begins right near the start, as O describes her boffing sessions with the battle-scarred Chon: “I had orgasms; he had ‘wargasms.'” Yow. Haven’t Writers Guild of America memberships been revoked for less?

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Oct 4, 2022

2.5/4

While the juicy performances and exciting meat of Savages are vicious fun, it’s a film whose feeble conceit undoes the pleasures of its base appeal.

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Hermione W

Apr 13, 2019

There isn't an easy life

Ron W

Mar 23, 2019

Very entertaining!A nice surprise in this flock of cartel movies...

Albus S

Dec 1, 2018

Wasted talented veteran actors and badly chosen new actors in a movie that could've been much better if more effort has been put into the script

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Albus S

Nov 13, 2018

Basically a standard crime thriller with a highly contrived plot, but made with expertise and a capable cast; the double entendre ending is superfluous and disappointing.

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Harry P

Oct 16, 2018

This is absolutely abysmal, a wet fart into the receding corridor of a sad old Director desperately trying to stay relevant. It seems Stone thinks the only way to do this is to chuck a bit of violence, sex and one of the most unnecessary rape plotlines at a steaming turd of a script. The central trio of actors are rubbish and for some reason the only decent actors in the film Travolta, Hayek and Del Toro are given such abysmal cookie cut out character supporting roles that they all seem to be taking the piss with their performances. Not one of those films that annoys you because it's bad, just one that bores you.

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Harry G

Sep 30, 2018

This is one of my all time favorite movie ever...I own it & have re watched it a lot lol ??

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Oliver Stone

Director

Taylor Kitsch

Chon

Blake Lively

O

Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Ben

John Travolta

Dennis

Benicio del Toro

Lado

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Synopsis

California entrepreneurs Ben (Aaron Johnson) and Chon (Taylor Kitsch) run a lucrative business raising marijuana and share a one-of-a-kind love with beautiful O (Blake Lively). Life in Laguna Beach is idyllic for them, until Elena (Salma Hayek), the merciless leader of the Mexican Baja Cartel, moves in and demands a piece of the action. However, Elena underestimates the trio's unbreakable bond, and with the help of a shady DEA agent (John Travolta), Ben, Chon and O go to war.

Director: Oliver Stone
Producer: Moritz Borman, Eric Kopeloff
Screenwriter: Shane Salerno, Don Winslow, Oliver Stone
Distributor: Universal Studios
Production Co: Moritz Borman, Onda Entertainment, Relativity Media
Rating: R (Language Throughout|Drug Use Throughout|Nudity|Some Graphic Sexuality|Strong Brutal/Grisly Violence)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 6, 2012, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 10, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $47.3M
Runtime: 2h 10m
Sound Mix: Datasat, SDDS, Dolby Digital

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