Savages

It’s actually kind of tame for an Oliver Stone movie. The ad campaign cultivates hope for another Natural Born Killers, a funny, insanely violent satire. But Savages falls more in line with U Turn, a dirty, dustbowl crime-fiction noir. A world in which there’s bad people and then there’s WORSE people. So it’s less dangerous than the title and the trailers would have you believe. Not that that’s bad. There are fun moments. But the ending’s a debacle so this is a mixed bag.