Savage

Savage.

Savage is from the beginning the most annoying film i have seen in quite a while,it follws a crime photographer who is brutally attacked and progresses through Dublin seedier underbelly,al the while is perplexed by fear and ultimately vengeance.

That above paragraph by itself is better written than the entire film/experience. travesty that is savage.There are no characters in this film,there are ideas of other characters stereotyped and morphed into plot mechanics, there are props which are filled with dialogue,there are moments of apparent tenderness so laughable that you expect is to be SNL sketch.The problems are only with the director/crayonist(i will never call him a writer) Brendan Muldowney,whose creative flow comes from watching Fox news.Its a xenophobic fuelled presumption ridden nonsensical attack on modern Dublin,a city which is illuminated more towards Bangcok than a western capital and its primary fearful loactions are Dame St,Temple Bar and Smithfield!.

The storey is simple and contradictory at every moment,a crime photographer ,Paul Graynor is terrified of street crime,if he was a simpler profession it would immediately become more real,who is attacked ruthlessly by "hoodies",who may as well have swastikas and have the imperial death march played behind them for the foreboding terror then appear to represent.Paul,a decent efforted Darren Healy,becomes overnight agoraphobic and fearful of everything(enjoy the bread buying scene,Hitchcock it is not),who,apparently,throught the wonderful exposition of subsidiary characters, a love interst,a psychatirist,random Polsih bodybuilders and a sheep, lead us to.....

nothing relevant about this person whatsoever.So much so that after Paul starts popping steroids like skittles, he becomes a maniac! Ohhhhhhh.....its not that exciting, as its so poorly directed edited and written its irrelevant for any real intelligence to purse it other than trying to understand the mind of a man who believes that propelling fear in the minds of an audience in such a disgusting manner is relevant. Brendan,the crayonist tries, through Fox News powers, shoes a state of absolute terror,then through our already apparently terrified photograher into this world,and shoots it in such extreme close ups its difficult not to feel uneasy being in such proximity to bad actors.Imagine a slasher film set in Fair city,welcome to Savage.

At one point during the sceening the reels were placed in the wrong order,for an audience containing the films stars,director producer and editor it took them a very long time to notice that the film had just skipped 5 minutes,i can only presume they just enjoyed the fact that is was a little shorter.