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Savior

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After military specialist Joshua Rose (Dennis Quaid) loses his wife (Nastassja Kinski) and son in a terrorist bomb attack in Paris, he joins the Foreign Legion as a form of revenge against Muslims. He ends up an anonymous mercenary in Bosnia, fighting with the Serbs, but his resolve is tested by the cruelty and horror of ethnic cleansing. When Joshua encounters Vera (Natasa Ninkovic), a young, pregnant Serbian woman due to be killed for her dishonor, he finds a reason to fight.
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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Savior is a brutally honest war film that looks unblinkingly at how hate and prejudice can pose as patriotism. Rated: 3.5/4 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Grant Watson Fiction Machine This bleak, somewhat relentless film about an American mercenary in the Bosnian War found little success back in 1998. Rewatched some decades later, and its brutal moments of violence and queasy moral ambivalence give a clear indication why that was. Rated: 7/10 Mar 27, 2025 Full Review Pablo Villaça Cinema em Cena Filme injustamente ignorado, brutal em sua mensagem humanitria e traz Quaid na melhor atuao de sua carreira. Rated: 4/5 Aug 31, 2007 Full Review Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality & Practice A very violent drama that takes a visceral stand against vengeance and ethnic cleansing. Aug 21, 2002 Full Review Cheryl DeWolfe Apollo Guide Rated: 67/100 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Harvey S. Karten Compuserve Rated: 8/10 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Read all reviews

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Rost M As of writing this review I first watched this movie 26 years ago and it as always stuck with me. It's one of the few war movies with no good or bad side's no matter what the low reviews on here are saying it shows good and bad on all sides. The only reason I can think it has such a low score with critics is becuse it's not about super heros in spandex full of product placemets and pandering. It's a goodnl watch if you're looking for something and it's a unknown gem and when I'm writing this it's on a few free streaming sigts Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/29/24 Full Review Audience Member Harrowing, yet a truly great film. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/10/24 Full Review roberto r Great film, in my opinion a little masterpiece. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/20/24 Full Review Steve D Well acted but too quick to forgive its characters atrocities. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member Shameless Serbian propaganda. As it is usual in serbian films they are the victims and Bosniaks and Croats are mostly evil. Yet International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in Hague tells a different story. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review brendan n Savior is one of those films that escaped me after its VHS release. The version I watched on Amazon wasn't a very good transfer but what started out in an odd manner, soon turned into something special. Dennis Quaid hasn't been an actor that I've enjoyed and I found the majority of his films fell away from my type of films, but this was an awakening for me and I wish he had done more risky ventures like Savior. The budget is low and by all appearances this film has been swept under the rug. I enjoyed the film and would love to see it in a higher transfer someday. It's not a classic but it has some hard story beats and Quaid knocks his performance out of the park. 05/11/2020 Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Peter Antonijevic

Director

Dennis Quaid

Joshua Rose

Nastassja Kinski

Maria

Stellan Skarsgård

Peter

Nataša Ninković

Vera

Sergej Trifunovic

Goran

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Synopsis After military specialist Joshua Rose (Dennis Quaid) loses his wife (Nastassja Kinski) and son in a terrorist bomb attack in Paris, he joins the Foreign Legion as a form of revenge against Muslims. He ends up an anonymous mercenary in Bosnia, fighting with the Serbs, but his resolve is tested by the cruelty and horror of ethnic cleansing. When Joshua encounters Vera (Natasa Ninkovic), a young, pregnant Serbian woman due to be killed for her dishonor, he finds a reason to fight.
Director
Peter Antonijevic
Producer
Oliver Stone, Janet Yang
Screenwriter
Robert Orr
Distributor
20th Century Fox
Production Co
20th Century Fox, Janet Yang Productions, Initial Entertainment Group
Rating
R
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 20, 1998, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
May 1, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA)
$12.9K
Runtime
1h 43m
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital, Surround
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