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Savior
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: QUAID,DENNIS
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 2
EAN: 9780767825221
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767825225
Item Dimensions: 25
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
MPN: 043396031074
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 20, 1999
Running Time: 104 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: November 20, 1998
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Editorial Review:
Joshua Rose avenges the death of his wife and son working as a mercenary for the Serbs, fighting a war he doesn't believe in.
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: R
Release Date: 4-NOV-2003
Media Type: DVD
Filmed in Montenegro and based on true accounts of the early '90s ethnic clashes between Serbia and neighboring states, Savior is a harrowing triumph for Serbian director Pedrag Peter Antonijevic and actor Dennis Quaid. For Antonijevic, who shaped Robert Orr's script through his own knowledge of the Serb-Bosnian struggle, the story provides the daunting challenge of putting a human face on a monstrous chapter in modern Europe's geopolitical evolution, and of transcending nationalism by capturing an even-handed but hardly unemotional portrait of the "war psychosis" that only partly explains the deep, divisive hatreds at work. For Quaid, Savior rescues his artistic reputation after too many formulaic studio outings that attempted merely to cash in on his wolfish charms.
Quaid is Joshua Rose, an American in Paris traumatized by the death of his wife and child in an Islamic terrorist bombing, wreaking immediate and fateful vengeance on innocent Muslim worshippers, then escaping into a new life as a mercenary supporting Bosnian Serbs. Under the nom du guerre Guy, Rose is a remorseless, nearly comatose presence until he intervenes in a brutal attack on a Serbian woman (Natasa Ninkovic) pregnant from a Muslim rape. Guy's gradual immersion in his charge's destiny brings him face to face with the centuries-old political, religious, and cultural feuds that haunt the region, and Quaid's own salvation comes through a remarkably subdued, sober performance. That restraint, and Quaid's haggard, close-cropped features are all but unrecognizable to those more familiar with his cocky, grinning turns as a more conventional hero.
Antonijevic makes the journey absorbing and, ultimately, elegiac, punctuated by a few brief but convincingly gruesome action sequences including a civilian massacre that would have been the climax of a more conventional war film. Instead, it's Quaid's own epiphanies that distinguish this probing, heartbreaking drama. The DVD edition retains the original widescreen aspect ratio and includes an audio commentary from the director. --Sam Sutherland.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Heart Piercing
I give this movie 5 stars for effort. Although it's a typical hollywood film. It did a good job under the low budget circumstance. It has some convincing realistic portrayal of the conflict. You need to watch this film with an open mind. Give it a chance. It's worth the peek.
Rating: - Hard on the heart, but you'll learn something from it.
A well made movie that takes a hard look at human nature. We like to think that we're better than "them", but are we? Not an easy watch for the heart, but well worth the time if you want an education on what the results of a social breakdown are. Compares well with the movie "Harrison's Flowers" (in context, though a different story).
Rating: - Wonderfull
Denis Quaid plays a unique roll in Savior. The war in Bosnia between Muslims, Serbs and Croats is raging. This movie has action, suspense, and music that is out of this world. A great film, with a great story.
Rating: - Very sad but, outsatnding!
Although the story ends on a sad but positive note I found it to be extremely thought provoking (provocative).
The message I received from the movie was that there are people who are just plain evil no matter what, and people who, despite their grief and anger will in the end do good. I think the movie is an outstanding reflection of the human condition.
Rating: - Fair Portrayal
Directed by Peter Antonijevic and starring Dennis Quaid, Kosta Andrejevic and Aleksandra Borodenko, "Savior" is a strong drama portraying some of the events that occured in Bosnia. Dennis Quaid is a Foreign Legion soldier who detests Islam and Muslims. He dons the Serbian Guard uniform in the Bosnian conflict, fighting against the Bosniaks.
Raised in a foreign culture, Guy (Quaid) is taken aback by the cruelty of the locals, either towards other nationalities, or even towards their ... Read More
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