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Savior (1998)
Rate:
4
Viewed:
2/25
2/25:
Low rating...yes when it should be '6'.
Savior lost me completely when Dennis Quaid's character, Joshua, went in a mosque and shot as many Muslims
as he could after his wife and kid died in a terroristic bombing. That's mass murder, and whoever does it gets death
or life in prison. Instead, he manages to escape punishment by enlisting in the French Foreign Legion. Yeah, right.
Some years pass before Joshua finds himself in the middle of the Bosnian War and decides to kill a boy only because
he's Muslim. Remind me again...what am I watching this piece of shit for? Unsurprisingly, it made
measly $14,328 against a budget of $10 million. The filmmakers should've asked themselves, "Why would this
appeal to anyone?" They tried to win me back with Joshua saving a baby at the end, but...he's a mass murderer!
For the most part, Savior is okay, having been shot on location in Montenegro. If you were frustrated
with Joshua for doing nothing during the genocide scene, that's because there were too many soldiers to handle
at once and he didn't have much of ammunition to begin with. By the way, I've never see a sniper use rope
to hold up the barrel. It won't work anyway since the power of the rifle will affect its aim.
All in all, Savior dies in the first fifteen minutes.