Savage

(1996) Savage SCIENCE-FICTION ACTION THRILLER.

Produced, co-written and directed by Avi Nesher that has Al (Olivier Gruner) his family of a wife and son executed and killed. He then ends up in the mental asylum when his mind begins to trigger after he hears the Amazing Grace song sung from a TV outside in the corridor, when the support worker was having it on! And for some strange reason he was unable to change the channel, and as a result of hearing that song, gave him the motivation to escape out to the desert since it was the last song he had heard from his wife before she was murdered. And while at the desert, he then stumbles onto a cave where after a couple of days staying in there gave him some super human abilities with an image of his wife inspiring him to seek retribution who even provide the persons face to whom is responsible. And he is not the same person as he used to be as he is lust for vengeance. Once he is captured by policemen, it is during then he ignites a little chemistry with a female police woman, Nicky Carter (Jennifer Grant), and then once he gets locked away he then manages to escape again. All of this was happening while a CEO tech man, Reese Burroughs (Kario Salem) and his three dangerous associates of Marie Beloc (Kristin Minter) who is tech savoy herself and two heavy weight goons of Edgar or Eddie Wallace (Sam McMurray) and Allan Egar Poe (Herschel Sparber) as with the help from much of the police are able to monitor some of his routines. At the same time nicknaming him as "Savage" hence the title, revealing the reason why his family had been executed was because Reese Burroughs wanted to own his property ranch, and refused to sell it to him to uncover an old relic that was on his property.

Watchable mess and made during the time when so much CGI had not been used so much.

Poorly acted, poorly written, poorly filmed, poorly costumed. Other than that this movie is just a rip off of the Terminator theme. It is for that reason I give it only one star.

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.

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)

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...