It should come as no surprise that Oliver Stone is associated with Savior, a brutal bit of button-pushing: The civil war that destroyed Yugoslavia has more than a few parallels to Stone's favorite war, Vietnam, and Savior allows him to tackle similar issues of moral ambiguity. But if Savior, directed by Predrag Antonijevic, goes a little too far in its sadistic bid to evoke sympathy, there's no denying the depressing truth it espouses. Dennis Quaid plays an American who, after his wife and son are killed in a terrorist attack, flits around from hot spot to hot spot in search of an enemy that will allow him to fully take out his aggression. His quest ultimately lands him in Bosnia, where he enlists in the Serb army and coldly participates in the ethnic-cleansing effort. But killing innocent women and children somehow hasn't completely hardened Quaid, and he ends up rescuing a Serb woman (Natasa Ninkovic) and her newborn baby from the hands of his raping and pillaging partner. Fingering the crucifix hanging from his neck, he opts to deliver this mother and child to safety. Early in the film, Quaid tells his son that God is everywhere, even in bad people, and this idealistic statement is meant to resonate ironically in the hell of Bosnia, where children are raped, old women are mutilated, and fathers kill their own daughters. Quaid in essence plays the film's Christ figure, mourning the sins of those around him and all but caving in to the pressure of absorbing the evils of the world. This ambitious religious allegory is never fully realized, but that doesn't make Savior any less potent.