Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

NateWatchesCoolMovies Savior is not an easy film to watch. At times it's downright excruciating. But it's also beautiful, and takes its subject matter very, very seriously, with not a cliché in sight for the entire duration. It's also has the best Dennis Quaid performance in his whole career. He is a charming, roguish guy known for his million dollar smile and good natured way. Here he drops all of that for a solemn, tortured turn that leaves your heart in a vice grip and your hands gripping the chair. He plays a military operative whose wife (Natassja Kinski) and little son are slaughtered in a terrorist bombing in Paris. He promptly walks down the street to the nearest mosque, enters and shoots everyone in the place. That's in the first ten minutes of the film. As an escape route he enters a special faction of the French Foreign Legion with his buddy (Stellan Skarsgaard in an excellent but quick appearance), whose task it is to bring some kind of order to the war against n Bosnia. There he finds himself the caretaker of a Bosnian girl who was raped and is pregnant with a Muslim child. Their journey across a ruined, confusing, harrowing country in crisis is one that will give you nightmares. But amidst the horror there is humanity, and a sense that he's trying to find the force within himself, and right his path to help this girl as best he can. There are no good guys or bad guys in this one. Just people swept up by conflict and hate against their will, in constant danger of the raging genocidal fury that lies just outside their door. Quaid steers the film with his rock jawed, stoic intensity, and the girl, played by is phenomenal, her last scene a haunting exodus that will leave you with goosebumps to go along with your nausea. This is a brutal, brutal movie though. Not even in the sense of the specific violence they show, it's the cold, frank context of it that gets under the skin of your soul. But it shows that even a person who emerges from a violent, scorched past into an environment like that can make somewhat of a difference. Very overlooked war film that shows war with no filter, no glossy heroics. Just what it is.

doug_park2001 "Disturbing" and "gut-wrenching" are frequent adjectives used to describe SAVIOR. I agree without hesitation, but it's important to remember that, particularly in its conclusion, SAVIOR is also both heart-warming and gratifying. I have seen very few films that juxtapose these various qualities so well.This is one of Quaid's finest performances as Joshua "Guy" Rose, a former U.S. Army officer who joins the Bosnian Serb Army for the simple reason that they are fighting against Moslems, a religion that, for reasons the film reveals, he's come to hate. He soon finds himself the unwitting "savior" of Vera, a Serbian woman played with utter conviction by Natasa Ninkovic, and her child conceived through rape by former Bosnian captors. The symbolism of the half-Serb, half-Bosnian child shines through very well. Settings are also worthy of note: The Bosnian sequences were filmed right next door in Montenegro, and the whole sense-of-place adds as much immediate realism to this film as the superb acting.There are some rather heated debates on IMDb's Discussion Board regarding what SAVIOR supposedly says about the war in Bosnia and how it portrays Serbs, Croats, and Moslems. Obviously, way too much has been read into the fact that the director is Serbian-born. Certain events and portrayals will inevitably upset citizens of the former Yugoslav republics who were victimized during the wars in the 1990s. However, the basic focus of this film is as nonpartisan as it can possibly be. If anything, SAVIOR overdoes the point that Bosnian Serbs, Croats, and Moslems all committed acts of both horrific cruelty and extreme compassion. In the words of one character, "I am Croat, my wife, Serb. Before the war, no difference. Now, stupid!"

plainmnms2005 There is no quality in his character allows me to accept Dennis Quaid's shooting spree at a mosque. Then, when his colleague justifiably kills one of the wounded Muslims who was going to kill Quaid, I am baffled as to why he should then choose to run away with Quaid in tow and become a true criminal like Quaid, even going so far as to join the French Foreign Legion with him. It's an absurd beginning. Another example of awful logic is after the young woman has her baby, it gets cleaned up, and she and Quaid are on the lam together, the baby cries incessantly because it's hungry. Instead of encouraging the mother to breast-feed her infant, Quaid goes to outrageous lengths to feed it milk, even fashioning a nipple out of a condom when he can't find the nipple (bad dialog moment: "Where's the goddamn nipple!?"). Things truly become absurd when, on discovering the milk is almost gone, he shouts at the mother (who had been drinking the milk) "Have you been drinking the milk!?" Then, he chases down a goat in a nearby field and tries in vain to milk it. Maybe it was meant as comic relief in an otherwise gruesome movie. In any event, I forced myself to watch the entire movie because I wanted to see how truly bad it could become, which, by the end, was quite awful.

aberdiyarov It is a pity that such powerful, terrible and madly beautiful film has not received any Oscar. Personally I them would give the whole 4. For the best script to American Robert Orru, for the best female role of the foreground to Natasha Ninkovich (Belief), for the best man's role of second plan Dennis Quaid (Josh) and for the best soundtrack. Considered Earlier, that " Schindler's List " - the heaviest film about war. But after "Savior" I in general any time was in a stupor. I consider from the best as film and add to the collection. Film is ideally sustained. And in the end will not begin to cry at all only heartless. Film not only about war, it also about paternity. Bravo !!! I too advise all more often to look the European cinema! 10 from 10