Taylor Kitsch needs a hit like a crackhead. So far this year
the “Friday Night Lights” alum has been in “John Carter” and “Battleship”, two
of the biggest critical and financial disasters in recent movie history. He
needs something to get him out of the gutter. Unfortunately for him, “Savages”,
Oliver Stone’s adaptation of Don Winslow’s 2010 novel, won’t be that movie. The
Day-Glo film noir is too violent to attract massive mainstream audiences—at times
the film edges dangerously near torture porn. Stone has an eye for visual style,
there is some striking imagery, but in the end there is very little in the way
of substance.
