Member whitesnake Posted April 15, 2019 Member Share Posted April 15, 2019 Cui Siwei, Chinese screenwriter (Bleeding Steel), has directed his first film, Savage, an action thriller with its premiere at the 2018 Busan International Film Fesival. Cast includes Chang Chen (Brotherhood of Blades I and II), Huang Jue (The Hidden Sword), Li Guangjie (Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe), Liao Fan (Ash Is Purest White), Liu Hua (I Am Not Madame Bovary), and Ni Ni (The Thousand Faces of Dunjia). Plot - "Mt. Baekdu, heavy with snow in the middle of winter. It is said that many ethnic Koreans still live near the snow-covered mountain. A policeman waiting for his transfer and a group of criminals trying to escape from the area after finding stolen goods that were hidden will have a final showdown on the isolated peak." The movie opens in China on April 26. Well Go USA bought North American rights to Savage, and gives it a limited theatrical release on May 3. Info from IMDB, https://filmcombatsyndicate.com/the-official-trailer-for-savage-teases-a-cold-blooded-heist-thriller/ and http://cityonfire.com/chang-chen-and-liao-fan-go-savage-in-this-new-trailer/ Movie review from the 2018 Busan Film Festival - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/savage-xue-bao-film-review-busan-2018-1151059 - "Cui has delivered a widescreen spectacle showing what the Chinese film industry is now capable of. Along with the Chinese censor's seal of approval at the start of the film, there's never any doubt justice will prevail - but Savage at least comes up with a taut and stylish way of making that happen." Well Go USA trailer - 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member whitesnake Posted April 26, 2019 Author Member Share Posted April 26, 2019 Cui Siwei's Savage and The South Korean movie Clean Up shared the top New Currents Award at the 2018 Busan International Film Festival (BIFF). "The New Currents Award is given to the two best feature films selected from the first or second works of new Asian directors introduced in the New Currents section" of BIFF. (From Hollywood Reporter and Wikipedia). The Well Go USA website has a list of theaters in the U.S. and Canada where the limited North American theatrical release of Savage will be playing on May 3rd - https://www.wellgousa.com/films/savage 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member whitesnake Posted May 1, 2019 Author Member Share Posted May 1, 2019 (edited) "If rural crime pics are your thing, you can expect plenty of this in writer and director Cui Siwei's debut outing, Savage, produced by former John Woo cohort Terence Chang... Savage offers a seething, often brutal thriller that gets pretty explosive in the second half... Savage isn't perfect, but it's as upwards of a middle-road a neo-Western thriller as it gets with some fairly taut and stylish delivery to boot." Complete movie review of Savage by Lee B. Golden III at https://filmcombatsyndicate.com/review-neo-western-crime-drama-savage-paints-by-numbers-with-ample-chills-and-suspense/ Variety.com also gives Savage a good review - https://variety.com/2019/film/asia/savage-review-xue-bao-1203203188/ "An above-average action thriller set in the snow-covered environs of Baekdu Mountain on the China-North Korea border, 'Savage' marks a confident directing debut for Chinese screenwriter Cui Siwei ('The Island'). This no-nonsense affair about a dogged detective squaring off with a trio of vicious crooks packs plenty of excitement and visual splendor into a familiar scenario, and is well performed by a top-notch cast... Stylishly filmed in widescreen by Du Jie ('The Wasted Times') and briskly edited by Du Yuan, 'Savage' features outstanding visual effects that make it impossible to spot where the real blizzard stops and the computer-generated one begins. All other technical aspects are first class." Edited May 3, 2019 by whitesnake 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member whitesnake Posted May 8, 2019 Author Member Share Posted May 8, 2019 (edited) Savage will get a Blu-ray release from Well Go USA on November 12, 2019 - http://cityonfire.com/chang-chen-and-liao-fan-go-savage-in-this-new-trailer/ Update: Release of the Blu-ray for Savage has been postponed to December 3, 2019. https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Savage-Blu-ray/242946/ Edited September 8, 2019 by whitesnake 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator One Armed Boxer Posted August 6, 2021 Moderator Share Posted August 6, 2021 I recently got through watching this one, and gave it the full review treatment over at COF. Check it out via the link - https://cityonfire.com/savage-2018-review-chang-chen-ni-ni/ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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