To me, this movie is perfection.

disgusting, overrated, pointless

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

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.

Bel film, is clearly much more spectacular of others. The trouble is that there is the category of "nostalgia", still anchored to the past that can not see the newer versions and then criticize harshly. Then there are just horrible comments under my own, if reject this movie should automatically reject the other 3 is a mechanism. What is the standard series. Violent scenes and events that unfortunately show the terrible ethnic cleansing in yugoslavia married with a desire for revenge of the viewer and the Quaid. Dennis quaid is a grat actor. beautiful film. As to the usual one, the usual negative comments which talk about a classical film some years 80 which everyone does not like it to the nostalgic ones are met.Sure Heros that this film had to have a judgment in this site. In fact reviewers' good part has put a high vote to the previous episodes. Because this contrast? I know the reason. Since assumptive reviewers' good part favorably sees the past and as the past is "better" than the present they have given several credit to the preceding episodes being still the last episode more explosive and spectacular. At this point should reject also the old episodes but there are here two weights and two measure.In fact also cinema masterpieces have been criticized and denigrated. Good part some reviewers of this site belong to the very bad reviewers. Better think separately with its head.

I've watched this film several times, the first time being in the late 90's, and then again just recently. It's truly an outstanding film that depicts the horrors faced by civilians in all wars, and how conflict and human suffering brings out both the best and worst in us.My wife is a Croatian citizen, and her family fled the country in the early 90's when the region first began to break apart, just hours away from being swept up into the war themselves. She was a teenager at the time, and she once told me that no one believed that the war would actually escalate so far, until before they realized it, a battle was being fought in the neighboring town a few miles away. Her parents made a wise decision to drop everything, grab the kids, and head for the border... Someone told them that just hours after they left, the roads out were blocked, and men were being conscripted into the army to fight. Fight for what? Her mother is a catholic Croatian and her father is an orthodox Serbian. Now all of a sudden, they are supposed to be enemies? A tale played out over and over in human history, yet we still have not learned our lesson.I also had the chance to visit the region, specifically Croatia, in 1999. Most of the parts that I visited were still in shambles, with almost every structure in ruins. Go outside and take a good look at the neighborhood that you live in. Now imagine 99% of the homes either completely leveled, or so damaged that they are uninhabitable. Anyone who thinks that war is glamorous, like Hollywood almost always portrays it, should visit a war torn country sometime. WHAT A WASTE!!! That's the Croatia that I saw in the 90's.Last month, I went back for my second visit, 7 years later. Wow, what a difference. The people of Croatia, along with the United Nations, have been busy rebuilding. Croatia is truly a beautiful country. The coast is extremely beautiful, and the National parks Plitvitce and Krka are beyond words. I see hope returning to the area....

I just have seen this movie and i have to confess i was crying at the end. The first 10 minutes decide the protagonist future, his fate depends on what he does after that. It's a war movie, it's a human condition movie, I couldn't decide, but If you want to know was it the war real stuff you should watch this film. The war scenes really gave my the creeps, they feel so real. This movie make you anger, love, hate, happy and finally understand. If you ask for some similar movie I should say the child's of the man(2006), so you know what to expect. It's not a movie you want to see with your entire family because the cruelty. I recommend it for everybody who likes the war, cruel movies but with a final human feeling lesson.