The film opens in Paris. Joshua (Dennis Quaid), a U.S. Military official, is eating with his family. He decides to leave and as he walks away he witnesses his wife and young son killed in a brutal suicide bombing.
In a fit of rage, after their funeral Joshua goes to the nearest Muslim temple and shoots about five or six Muslims in the head at point blank range.
He then flees to the Foreign Legion, fighting in the Yugoslav war as a mercenary; doing fighting with the Serbians against the Muslims (hmm, I wonder why?).
Eventually Joshua finds himself transporting a nursing woman named Maria (Natassja Kinski) to safety...and finds himself questioning his own motives.
Considering that the film was directed by a Serbian it's not hard to imagine he had some sort of ulterior motive. Predrag Antonijevic was born in Nis, Serbia, Yugoslavia. Could there be a reason he chose this particular subject as a film choice? Surprisingly I expected an anti-Muslim piece but it's actually more of a "don't judge people by their religion" piece. Oliver Stone's involvement as producer perhaps solidifies this. But I still felt like the message was a bit wishy-washy - at one point all Muslims are evil, then suddenly they're helpless victims.
I'm not necessarily saying that "Savior" is a worthless propaganda piece with lack of focus...but I am saying that - judged solely as a film - it isn't particularly interesting or original. I thought it could have been much better. I was rather disappointed. It's just not very well fleshed out and I didn't understand what, exactly, it was trying to say - other than that you can't take your frustration out on those with differing religions...but that seems like a rather redundant moral.
In a fit of rage, after their funeral Joshua goes to the nearest Muslim temple and shoots about five or six Muslims in the head at point blank range.
He then flees to the Foreign Legion, fighting in the Yugoslav war as a mercenary; doing fighting with the Serbians against the Muslims (hmm, I wonder why?).
Eventually Joshua finds himself transporting a nursing woman named Maria (Natassja Kinski) to safety...and finds himself questioning his own motives.
Considering that the film was directed by a Serbian it's not hard to imagine he had some sort of ulterior motive. Predrag Antonijevic was born in Nis, Serbia, Yugoslavia. Could there be a reason he chose this particular subject as a film choice? Surprisingly I expected an anti-Muslim piece but it's actually more of a "don't judge people by their religion" piece. Oliver Stone's involvement as producer perhaps solidifies this. But I still felt like the message was a bit wishy-washy - at one point all Muslims are evil, then suddenly they're helpless victims.
I'm not necessarily saying that "Savior" is a worthless propaganda piece with lack of focus...but I am saying that - judged solely as a film - it isn't particularly interesting or original. I thought it could have been much better. I was rather disappointed. It's just not very well fleshed out and I didn't understand what, exactly, it was trying to say - other than that you can't take your frustration out on those with differing religions...but that seems like a rather redundant moral.