Savages – Review

Savages – Review

Ben and Chon are in the marijuana biz. They run a mom-and-pot outfit, if you will (except that there’s no mom). Germinated with bootleg seeds from Afghanistan and cultivated through high-tech botany, the cannabis these guys grow is some the most potent in
the world. And even though they’re just a small boutique dealer compared with the big-box pot growers south of the border, they still do enough business—legally and otherwise—to sustain a comfortable existence.

But now their modest success has attracted the attention of a drug cartel down south. The cartel wants to do business with Ben and Chon. And if they resist, well, let’s just say the bigger organization might just initiate a hostile takeover.

How hostile? Chon receives a video from the cartel filled with images of decapitated heads—the last group, it’s insinuated, that refused to partner with the cartel. Chon, an ex-military man, wants to push back, to show these guys they’re he and Ben isn’t
afraid. Ben, however, is very much afraid. He’s ready to get out of the business and turn their operation over to the cartel.

But the cartel, led by mysterious drug heiress Elena, isn’t interested in that option either.

Instead, Elena kidnaps O, Ben and Chon’s (shared) girlfriend. The cartel arranges a video conference, where Ben and Chon see O tied to a chair, bruised and bleeding, surrounded by blade-wielding guards. The message is clear: Join the cartel or O will die,
and die badly.

Successful businesses always require some sacrifices, of course. But some require more than others.

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Posted by Fahad Zafar on Jul 6 2012. Filed under Entertainment. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry