Lavé par le sang

I really liked this film! What's not to like? Great cast, good music, excellent revenge story against drug dealing scumbags who definitely have it coming!

I thought the portrayal of the addicted couple struggling to get clean and start a new life on the straight and narrow was very moving and powerful!

Maybe all the negative reviewers are too fond of their own addictions to empathize with the main characters. I also wonder how many of them actually watched until the end. I know how hard it is for non-believers to watch a film that still holds out Christian faith as the only hope for the lost, so they probably tuned out and crossed it off before they even saw the end.

I would even go so far as to say that this film is one of the best films I've seen in the young year of 2023.

I've grown to appreciate Jack Huston's acting talents of late, just as Ive enjoyed his uncle Danny's performances. They are both a credit to the Huston heritage.

De Niro and Malkovich are their usual convincing selves. No complaints there. I liked the choice of music, all of which seemed very thoughtfully programmed to the context of each scene.

Don't listen to the negative reviews. This film is well worth watching, unless you're too cynical and secularized in your think to still believe in justice and the hope of true salvation in Jesus Christ.

"If that wasn't god pushing me to do his business I don't know what was"

Savage Salvation is directed by Randall Emmett and stars Jack Huston, Willa Fitzgerald, Robert De Niro and John Malkovich.

The latest geezer teaser arrives, directed by the king of the geezer teasers himself Randall Emmett. Have you ever seen a low quality movie in the clearance section of your local Target etc with a big name attached? Like Bruce Willis, Mel Gibson, Robert De Niro and John Travolta for example. Chances are this Randall Emmett guy is a producer on it. Everyone should know the process on how these movies get made. You attach an aging older male action star like listed above, then you cast a B list younger male actor as the true lead of the movie. And then fill out the rest of the cast usually with a bunch of D list actors no one has ever heard of before. It's provided early retirement and a nice paycheck for most of these aging stars and Savage Salvation is no different.

So if you couldn't tell by now Savage Salvation is not a good movie. The best part of this movie is easily Jack Huston and the best parts of this movie are when he's involved in a Vigilante Justice killing spree. Besides that there's not much else here to recommend. The story is very weak and not very compelling. The movie tries to craft a message on drug use I guess? However it wasn't done well at all. Robert De Niro and John Malkovich are obviously just here for a paycheck. (Thank god De Niro has Killers Of The Flower Moon on the horizon) But yeah besides Jack Huston nothing about this movie is good.

Once you've seen one of these geezer teaser movies you've really seen them all. In general Savage Salvation is a mess that doesn't know what it wants to be. A faith pandering movie, a message about drug use and a vigilante action thriller are all thrown in the blender here with incredibly weak results.

Robert DeNiro & John Malkovich (and Dale Dickey) are in support, and it has a long drawn-out first-half set-up... but despite these wrappings of supposed class "Savage Salvation" is still nothing but a dumb, forgettable actioner. In a small, depressed mid-west US town young & in-love Jack Huston & Willa Fitzgerald are recovering addicts, til she slips, ODs & dies... sparking his bloody, vengeful, muderous rampage up the local heroin supply chain - and that is ALL Adam Taylor Barker & Chris Siverston's screenplay offers. Director Randall Emmett adds nothing of note, making DeNiro & Malkovich's involvement bizarre & disappointing. It's a total turd. Flush!

'I've seen way way worse' from another reviewer... so this is to be taken, HOW? As if this movie is actually worth one's time? I guess it depends on our mood. I don't know if it was the same reviewer who said that 'people who will criticize this movie probably enjoy dumb comic book movies'. And i guess that means that all comic book movies are dumb.

Or does it indicate more about the reviewer?

In any case...this movie is NOT cringeworthy...it's decent 'paint by number'. It's just funny to hear DeNiro trying to do a southern accent. Malkovich does a LITtle bit better...i have not a CLUE as to why DeNiro did this film. Some people wrote 'for the paycheck'. Hmmmm...yeah. Because he hasn't made anything from his other films, i guess...and anyways...why should he be beholden to ANY of us 'spectators'... i think the movie, though not any great work of art, might be therapeutical to the many who were affected by opiates, in any form, over the last few decades...this, of course includes relatives.

While revenge isn't, necessarily, the best form of payback(i believe in letting someone's choices catch up with them...but i'm not asking anyone else to follow this way of dealing with being wronged), revenge MOVIES can be a great outlet...high or lowbrow...doesn't matter.

As I sat down to watch the 2022 action thriller "Savage Salvation", I must admit that I was harboring some expectations from it, as it had the likes of Robert De Niro and John Malkovich on the cast list. However, I had never actually heard about the movie prior to watching it, so I didn't really know what to expect here.

Writers Adam Taylor Barker and Chris Sivertson did put together an enjoyable script and storyline for the movie. Sure, this wasn't exactly a movie that revolutionized the action thriller genre, but I will say that I enjoyed the story, because it was nicely written and proved entertaining. Sure, it was somewhat generic, even for an action thriller, but it still played out nicely enough to entertain me.

It was initially the cast ensemble that lured into watching "Savage Salvation", and they did indeed have a good cast ensemble. Leading actor Jack Huston carried the movie quite well, though I have to say that I am not really familiar with him prior to watching him in this movie, but he definitely performed well and was nicely cast for the role. The movie also had a good performance from Willa Fitzgerald, along with Robert De Niro and John Malkovich, of course.

I did enjoy the storyline, as I mentioned earlier, and the twist to the plot was actually quite nice. That was a nice touch from the writers, and I didn't see that coming. So thumbs up on that accomplishment.

While "Savage Salvation" proved enjoyable and entertaining, then it is hardly a movie that warrants more than a single viewing, simply because the storyline is a bit too generic and doesn't really have the contents to support more than just a single viewing. However, if you enjoy action thrillers, then "Savage Salvation" is well-worth checking out.

My rating of director Randall Emmett's 2022 movie "Savage Salvation" lands on a six out of ten stars.