Whenever you can gather Oscar winner Oliver Stone (director & co-writer) along with John Travolta, Uma Therman, Salma Hayek, and Benicio del Toro plus additional high quality talent together and put them all to work in an action film it just can't get any better than that!avages is definitely a crime thriller with plenty of action and intrigue. Throw in a Hippie named Ophelia, or "O" for short played by Blake Lively (Green Lantern, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) and her marijuana growing Laguna Beach boyfriends Chon, a former Navy SEAL played by Taylor Kitsch (John Carter, The Bang Bang Club) and Ben, a Berkeley grad (Aaron Johnson from Albert Nobbs, Shanghai Nights). When "O" is kidnapped by a Mexican drug cartel you can see how things could get complicated! John Travolta is a DEA agent hot on the trail of the cartel members when he too gets caught up in the intrigue. Uma Thurman is the mother of Ophelia or "O", desperate to find her daughter. Ransom requires the grass growers to give up all profits they've made the past five year but revenge is a sweeter deal.