SAVAGES

Savages, the sex and drugs hyped thriller from three-time Oscar winning director Oliver Stone, can not sustain the high. Who took the meeting when it was decided to put an all star cast, including John Travolta, Salma Hayek, and Benicio Del Toro, around Gossip Girl airhead Blake Lively? The girl can't act, how can she be expected to generate any sort of empathy when captured by the Mexican drug cartel! Ben & Chon, her boutique boyfriends from Laguna Beach, grow designer grass and are shocked when the big guys want a split. The cross and double cross as they jockey to free lovely Ophelia falls flat. No buzz here. Any homage to Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction goes puff. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly-esque shoot out ending is a drag. Stone's double ending bone bombs. Savages blows a lot of smoke and never hits pay dirt. A weed kill if I ever saw one. Inhale at your own risk.