Savage Salvation (2022)

• Year: 2022
• Released: 02 Dec 2022
• Country: United States
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• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13055982/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/savage_salvation
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/savage-salvation
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Action, Thriller
• Runtime: min
• Writer: Adam Taylor Barker, Chris Sivertson
• Director: Randall Emmett
• Cast: Robert De Niro, Willa Fitzgerald, John Malkovich
• Keywords: revenge, recovering addict, opioid use disorder, police pursuit,

	4.5/10
	45% – Audience

Savage Salvation Storyline

Sheriff Church (Robert De Niro) and Detective Zeppelin strive to keep the peace in their rough town, where residents’ only two interests are the church or oxycodone. Newly engaged Shelby John (Jack Huston) and Ruby Red want a fresh start. They decide to have a family together and get clean, with the support of Peter, Ruby’s brother-in-law (John Malkovich). However Shelby discovers his beloved Ruby dead on their porch before she could fulfill her final wish: to be baptized in the river and washed away from her past sins. Filled with fiery rage, Shelby embarks on a vengeful killing spree to right all the wrong done to Ruby by every link in the drug dealing chain. Armed with nothing but adrenaline and a nail gun, Shelby picks off dealers and junkies one by one until he gets to the top. Sheriff Church and Detective Zeppelin must race against the clock to put an end to Shelby’s vigilante justice before his fight with the crime lord Coyote (Quavo) turns the entire town into a bloodbath.

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Savage Salvation Movie Reviews

A missed opportunity.

Yes, Randall Emmett has produced a ton of flops, but also a few legendary films (Rambo, Heist, Boss Level, etc), and his only two prior writing efforts (Fortress and Fortress: Sniper’s Eye) were both flops big-time, but his directorial debut prior to this film (Midnight in the Switchgrass) was actually impressive imo. In this film, his directorial rookie mistakes were very evident.

Emmett has a slew of great casting talent available to him in many of his films (he can be my wingman bar-hopping L. A. celebrity hot-spots anytime), and you can’t blame De Niro or Malkovich for being in this film. They clearly did their jobs well (albeit their talents not showcased or required for their basic character’s roles), but more importantly, they convinced us to watch this film because of their presence. Well played Mr. Emmett, well played.

The missed opportunity here was that although Emmett can clearly assemble great cast, he seems to have a problem putting together a proper film crew. In his second directorial credit, this film had flaws – more than Midnight in the Switchgrass, and the majorly flawed jointly-written screenplay made Emmett’s directorial rookie mistakes stand out more.

The story was nothing revolutionary for this genre, but it still drew me in mainly because of Fitzgerald’s and Huston’s great chemistry and decent performances, although with better cast directing, they (and all other cast) could’ve easily elevated their performances. There were many questionable scenes (e.g. Who-why were the photos De Niro’s character kept looking at on his desk, the kid in the middle of the road, etc) that needed more clarity, or just didn’t need to be in the film. Many scenes felt random and switched in or out too abruptly – maybe bad editing and/or directing. There were many plot and technical issues. The pacing was horrible; the 101 min runtime felt dragged out endlessly, and the entire first half of the film could’ve been shown in 15-20 mins instead of taking almost an hour for the film’s set up. The last act was the best, with better pacing, action and some nice twists that elevated the mostly boring first two acts. It actually answered my question “why is Malkovich even in this film”, when he did what he does best, bring out his characters true identity.

In the hands of better filmmakers, this could’ve easily been a better film, and although not the greatest A-list headliner film, it’s certainly a worthy one-time watch, flaws and all.

Another forgettable geezer teaser

“If that wasn’t god pushing me to do his business I don’t know what was”

Savage Salvation is directed by Randall Emmett and stars Jack Huston, Willa Fitzgerald, Robert De Niro and John Malkovich.

The latest geezer teaser arrives, directed by the king of the geezer teasers himself Randall Emmett. Have you ever seen a low quality movie in the clearance section of your local Target etc with a big name attached? Like Bruce Willis, Mel Gibson, Robert De Niro and John Travolta for example. Chances are this Randall Emmett guy is a producer on it. Everyone should know the process on how these movies get made. You attach an aging older male action star like listed above, then you cast a B list younger male actor as the true lead of the movie. And then fill out the rest of the cast usually with a bunch of D list actors no one has ever heard of before. It’s provided early retirement and a nice paycheck for most of these aging stars and Savage Salvation is no different.

So if you couldn’t tell by now Savage Salvation is not a good movie. The best part of this movie is easily Jack Huston and the best parts of this movie are when he’s involved in a Vigilante Justice killing spree. Besides that there’s not much else here to recommend. The story is very weak and not very compelling. The movie tries to craft a message on drug use I guess? However it wasn’t done well at all. Robert De Niro and John Malkovich are obviously just here for a paycheck. (Thank god De Niro has Killers Of The Flower Moon on the horizon) But yeah besides Jack Huston nothing about this movie is good.

Once you’ve seen one of these geezer teaser movies you’ve really seen them all. In general Savage Salvation is a mess that doesn’t know what it wants to be. A faith pandering movie, a message about drug use and a vigilante action thriller are all thrown in the blender here with incredibly weak results.

Cringe-worthy Thriller

Ruby Red (Willa Fitzgerald) and Shelby John (Jack Huston) get engaged and want to get clean of the drugs they were taking. Ruby Red wants to be baptized, too, and start life clean and free. But a drug dealer gets to Ruby Red. Shelby is beside himself and goes to kill all the drug dealers. Sheriff Church (Robert DeNiro and his deputy need to stop this killing spree.

Probably Bruce Willis should have played the Sheriff as DeNiro’s performance looked a lot like a Wills slow walking gig in this low budget story. DeNiro had very little to do except near the end when he confronts Shelby with a gun.

No, most of the story is all Ruby Red and Shelby and later mostly Shelby as he goes gunning for drug dealers. A kind of surprising tidbit is when the movie is all Ruby Red and Shelby, we really didn’t care for either of them. Whose fault is that? Yes, we wanted them to get clean of drugs, but when they were going through the withdrawals we just wanted those scenes to be over with and they went on for too long a time.

Directors these days are finding more brutal ways of killing and torturing people and this promotes unease in my wanting to watch an entertaining story. Cringe-worthy is a good word watching this movie.

Notables: John Malkovich as Peter, a supporter of the Church, but there is more to Peter as you will see; Clay Wilcox as Darius, a drug dealer; Quavo as Coyote as a drug runner.

This is watchable especially if you FF thru the killing and torturer scenes. Maybe this would have been better if the Sheriff didn’t know that Shelby was the one killing drug dealers, but then again everyone knows everyone in a small town such as this was. (4/10)

Violence: Yes Sex: No.

Nudity: No.

Humor: No.

Language: Yes.

Rating: C.