By JAMES DAWSON
Front Row Features Film Critic
“Savages” is an irresistibly over-the-top thriller about double-crossing drug lords that’s cool, complicated and the good kind of crazy. It’s also a real return to form for director/co-writer Oliver Stone, whose last outing was 2010′s dreadful and conventional “Wall Street” sequel “Money Never Sleeps.”
Although not as stylishly strange as Stone’s beyond-bizarre “Natural Born Killers,” “Savages” manages to be alternately hard-boiled suspenseful and a little post-modern preposterous. What’s impressive is how well Stone makes this unlikely mixture work over a fast-moving 131-minute running time. (The rest of this article is available only to frontrowfeatureswire.com subscribers. For subscription information, contact frontrowfeatures@gmail.com.)
