Savage

lewis

Anyone see that movie Savage? Its getting a lot of good reviews?

ollie1

Yep I have seen it its very good defo worth going to see it.

BopNiblets

There's 12 results for Savage on IMDB from various years, can you guys post a trailer or something ffs?

Edit: Nevermind, got one: http://www.cineworld.ie/films/3678

Galvasean

There's a thread over in Film Production. Looks pretty good. might check it out myself. After enjoying Perrier's Bounty I find myself faced with the idea of seeing two Irish cinema films in a row that are good! :eek:

Handsome Bob

Galvasean wrote: »

There's a thread over in Film Production. Looks pretty good. might check it out myself. After enjoying Perrier's Bounty I find myself faced with the idea of seeing two Irish cinema films in a row that are good! :eek:

I heard it's brutal. :pac:

I read one review that compared Savage to Taxi Driver, seriously!? :eek:

robbie1

yea i saw it yesterday was very impressed some great acting ,darren healy was superb in it
an irish taxi driver ,type of film that stays with you for a while after you seen it

geoffraffe

Can't wait to see this. I believe that the way Dublin is shot at night is superb.

Here's to Irish cinema *tips hat*

OutlawPete

Seen it earlier this week and it was excellent.

So nearly a masterpiece but there a few things that let it down for me.

I felt that the actor playing the lead, Darren Healy - really didn't show us enough inner turmoil towards the end of the movie.

Up until the scene where he finds out that the two guys have been found and are about to appear in court, I felt that his acting was superb.

Of course you can't just blame the lead for this, editing and direction was also at fault here if what I am saying is fair criticism and I think it is.

The ending scene just seemed to be added for shock value, it seemed separate from the movie it many ways, I think the movie would have been better without it and an alternative ending chosen, or give us more to believe that the lead character had this level of anger in him.

There was also obviously an influence of American History X about the final scene, not so much in story content as one is about revenge and the other perceived justice, but purely from a visual standpoint, the similarities are there without doubt.

In saying all that, I loved it still.

I was utterly engrossed throughout and it was a real pleasure to see such a good movie from an Irish writer / director, we just don't see nearly enough these days.

geoffraffe

I went to see this yesterday and it's the first time I've left a cinema in shock.

In saying that, I really enjoyed this film. I went in going to judge it as an "Irish film" and came out judging it on it's own merits. The film looked great, dublin looked superb, the story was paced nicely and I loved the plot. The acting was good, especially the 2 attackers, i thought the scripting of those 2 was excellent.

As Outlaw Pete has said

I would have likes to have seen him descend deeper into his madness but I have to disagree that the last scene was put in for shock value. I think it completed his cycle into a complete psycho.

Well worth a look.

The Volt

Really got to me this, very disturbed by it. Just saw it there today. Yikes.

allandanyways

I was really disturbed by this, went to see it with a friend who has to see it for her MA and I wasn't expecting that!

I thought the psychology behind Paul's character was fantastic, but that last scene, as others have said,

absolutely scared the crap out of me. Couldn't watch it. What actually happened? I had my eyes closed as soon as he did the thing with the scewdriver to the other lad

OutlawPete

I might actually pop along and see this again.

Might be one of those movies where you notice more on a second viewing than you did first time around.

Etnies

I find it disturbing that he played a character like that considering he caused the death of someone in real life after a punch up in Eamon Dorans.. he escaped a 4 year sentence.

OutlawPete

Etnies wrote: »

I find it disturbing that he played a character like that considering he caused the death of someone in real life after a punch up in Eamon Dorans.. he escaped a 4 year sentence.

Christ, never knew that.

He was very lucky to get off on appeal.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/actor-jailed-after-blood-clot-death-of-assault-victim-1578803.html

http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/1217/bryanp.html