Savages points to a problem with gifted directors, which Stone is, like him or not: They can make a movie that aggravates, infuriates, falters even, but they can really make a movie.
– Lisa Kennedy,
Denver Post,
6 Jul 2012
rotten:
These are neither good people nor interesting savages, and they're not worth caring about. Neither is the movie.
– Rex Reed,
New York Observer,
12 Jul 2012
rotten:
Stone devotes considerable ingenuity to making atrocity appear as a terrifying kind of home movie, but "Savages" is no more than a summertime debauch.
– David Denby,
New Yorker,
23 Jul 2012
rotten:
It all smacks of trying too hard to mask the absence of strong material.
– Tom Huddleston,
Time Out,
18 Sep 2012
rotten:
The film would have been so much more interesting if the two men had been identical twins played by the same actor-like Jeremy Irons in David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers.