Savage

Savage has a genuinely powerful story to tell but goes about it all wrong. For starters it's told out of sequence with multiple timeline jumps back and forth to make a simple story seem complex. The camera work is bizarre and distracting. But worst of all is a myriad of scenes featuring loud nerve-jangling music with slow motion montages. No idea what that was meant to achieve other than prolong the runtime. Not to mention Jake Ryan's New Zealand accent was laughable. Speaking Aussie with a few eh bro's on the end is not speaking New Zealand. 4/10.

I liked this movie because it gave me a interesting understanding into the life of a gang member here in New Zealand and New Zealand citizen it really hit home as I can relate to a lot of situations in the movie! It has a really good way of grabbing your attention and making certain situations so surreal. Would definitely recommend 🔥

Someone would have worked very hard to get funding for this film, and unfortunately the money was wasted making this terrible thing. Sound is awful early on in the film with dialogue almost completely non understandable. Very strange editing with really unnecessary cuts and almost flash frames at times and quite questionable cinematography, very disjointed story line and a very predictable ending. Aussie Actor as one of the leads, badly doing kiwi accent, is an interesting choice, like many things to do with this film, I waited for this film to start and get going, but unfortunately this never happened, an hour and a half of my life, I will never get back.This kind of film is why it is getting so hard to get films financed.

This film has been made better before. I didn't really feel the involvement needed to make this film work for me. So in the end I didn't feel the bonds the savages felt. In the end a bit disappointed.