El salvaje

This movie isn't as terrible as people make it out to be and the story does make "sense" if you have a reasonable attention span and pay attention. It scores points with me because it isn't immediately clear who the bad guy is and what exactly is going on, but it does manage to unravel at a decent enough pace and tells a story, such as it is. The biggest goof for me is that they are using Cro-Magnon man as a point of reference and part of the movie takes place in Cro-Magnon caves even though the story clearly takes place in North America, a continent that never had ANY prehistoric peoples that I know of and certainly not Cro-Magnon people. They couldn't have used the Aztecs instead? As I type, there are elites who actually think they can upload their personalities into some sort of digital format and there is already a good chunk of the population obsessed with a moronic device their carry around in their pockets, not unsimilar to the virtual reality devices shown in the movie, so these guys weren't completely out there by any means, although I'm sure it was unintentional.

A dead rancher (Olivier Gruner) is revived by aliens in order to stop an evil scientist (or evil businessman, it's never made clear) who is trying to live in cyberspace (This is one of the film's less believable ideas) also we learn that the aliens are our gods and that they were the ones who created us and Olivier Gruner is made into an efficient killing machine who uses his savage skills to dispense of the bad guys and protect his new love interest Nicky Grant (Jennifer Grant) in this wildly incomprehensible sci-fi clunker. I need to explain myself, I'm doing a binge on Olivier Gruner for Thanksgiving because I myself can't get enough turkey and no man has put out more turkey than Oli Gruner but let's be perfectly candid, even for Gruner flicks this is really, really bad stuff. It's literally so weird and bizarre it's almost worth watching. I mean you will not see a movie as demented or senseless then this mess. However if your morbidly curious,go to it, I for one was lost through out and mainly the movie wasn't so funny as it was just blatantly confusing. Anyone who can tell you that they actually made sense out of this thing, is someone who lies. Plain and simple, Savage makes no sense and is only, for fans of Troma films. Also surprisingly Gruner doesn't fight as much as one would expect.

* out of 4-(Bad)

When I watched the film I wondered, how the plot could reveal the reason behind the first massacre, since all the events were based on that. I wondered till the end. And beyond. I still wonder. Maybe part II contains something which could give this plot some sense... I hardly can imagine, but who knows... If you look for visuality without any logic or reason, don't miss this film. Your brains won't overheat of thinking. If you need a plot, avoid like plague. It doesn't have any.

I was not sure what to expect with this movie reading the description and after watching it, it is still hard to say what thing thing was trying to do or where it was set. At first with all the VR they were showing I thought it was set in the future, well, the future from 1996, but then the bad guy says it's the 90's. So the setting is strange and not really that of our earth, because we still do not have good virtual reality and it is 2021.

The story, a guy is living an ideal life with his wife and son. That is until people come and shoot him in the face and kill his family! He is sent to a mental hospital where he escapes two years later and ends up in a cave where he is turned into a savage! A savage who must take revenge upon the people responsible for his family's death! He will also meet a cop who sort of helps him as he jumps around and only seems marginally stronger than usual as I have seen films with Bruce Lee where Bruce is way more impressive without the benefit of being reverted back to a savage...

The cast consists of perpetually oily guy who is the start, Cary Grant's daughter and that one guy who has appeared in numerous movies and television shows and who is nondescript as the dreaded killer! I mean, when the savage and this guy have their confrontation of course the savage is going to win! It sure is not going to be the crooked vacuum salesman from that one episode of Wings!

So the film was not all that bad as I kept wondering how all the things going on in the film were going to tie together; however, they did not tie together in a very good way. I was disappointed by the reasons behind the murder of the family and also the nerdy bad guy's reasons for committing such atrocities. The powers the hero had were also wildly inconsistent as at times he seemed only marginally better than a non augmented human and at others he was jumping off skyscrapers and landing with no problem...

This movie was very ambitious and cool for its non-multimillion dollar budget! The special effects are incredible and the production design incredibly powerful, a strong visual vision from Director, Nesher. Plus, some great performances from actors you should recognize - the bad guy is great, Jennifer Grant obviously got her dad's charm (as in, Cary...) and Kristin Minter from ER is quite the sex pot! A great stay home and rent movie... fun, fast, fantasy flick!