Savages

Stunts and Effects: 70% 
Logic: 85% 
Soundtrack: 65% 
TnA: 60% 
Cognitive Decline of Audience: 15% 
Overall Inches on the Action Erection Scale: 9 out of 12

Selma. Still as you remember her in FROM DUSK TIL DAWN, 

If you went off the trailers, Savages probably comes off like a hodge podge of crime film go-tos. You've got the rival drug dealers, the crooked cop who will inevitably turn on all parties involved, the two best buds who came into the biz together (one soft and the other a cold-blooded killer), and the female prized-possession that is destined to tear them apart. But what the commercials for Oliver Stone's latest film doesn't detail properly is that the direction and performances rescue it from being commonplace.

That's not to say that the cliches just disappear. As a matter of fact, Stone seems so aware of the crime-drama troupes that he refuses to settle on an ending in order to defy expectations. But by the point, the actors have already sold the concept for him. Particularly, Selma Hayek and Benecio Del Toro. The two performers get a sizeable chunk of screentime and waste none of it.