Savage

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)

(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.

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!

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.

I think this movie was nice. The storyline is not the best but it doesn't interrupt the entertainment factor in my opinion. Parts of the story were weak and a little senseless and explanation was missed but other parts were very nice and very well explained although those hadn't much to do with what was happening. The effects were pretty cool for an older B-Movie, I liked them, especially the real effects made from plastic and stuff were cool, the computer effects were as expected cheap but nonetheless not eye-hurting. The main character is going through quite a sick adventure mainly driven by revenge while he looks a little like Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2 but with a far worse haircut. I can recommend it to anyone who likes Sci-Fi stuff, anyone who doesn't probably shouldn't watch this movie.