Natural Born Killers

Natural Born Killers

Natural Born Killers

Natural Born Killers

Stones Natural Born Killers starts off very promisingly as he intercuts different styles in an eye popping fashion that works brilliantly for about 30 minutes. It is soon after that though that the viewer realises that this isn't a challenging, experimental new cinema but an extended MTV rock promo which outstays its welcome long before the extended and excrutiatingly boring prison scenes. There are a few good ideas in the film - nothing too new or too challenging and vaguely reactionary. Isn't Natural Born Killers the type of media overkill Stone is attacking? If you want to see a similar story told with poignancy, insight, thought and intelligence check out Terence Malicks genuinely magnificent Badlands and we'll write off NBK as a failed experiment by this master of superficiality and bombast

I didn't see this (ahem!) "film" for a long time because it sounded like a load of garbage.After hearing others tell how much they liked it,I got weak and watched this thing(luckily I checked it from the library and didn't pay rental).What a psychic I am!!!It WAS a load of garbage!!!I don't know why everyone seems to love this junk and think Mickey and Mallory are cool...I was ready for them to die after the first 15 minutes.The only good thing about this "Director's Cut" version I got was the unused scene where M and M get blown away by Arliss Howard's character.Should have put that in the original...right at the beginning!!

There was a time when I used to respect Oliver Stone. That time has elapsed. This film is the equivalent of a XXX porno movie that's protesting XXX porno movies. I'm sure that many will disagree with me. And that's partly because this movie's point is not really clear. Everything in this movie is reflective of something else (i.e. "...it's violent because the world's violent, that's point..." ect. ect.)so any criticism against the film is pointless. A satire without a clear point amounts to a lot of sound and fury and that's exactly what this movie amounts to. But I'm sure critics will hail this film as a great satire of American pop culture. At the same time it will surely inspire disaffected or disgruntled people with revenge fantasies. I'm sure they'll find it Columbine-tastic.

Natural Born Killers (1994) D: Oliver Stone. Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr, Tommy Lee Jones, Tom Sizemore, Rodney Dangerfield, Ashley Judd (deleted scenes), O-Lan Jones, Ed White, Lanny Flaherty. Controversial (and senseless) ultra-violent bloodfest features a husband and wife team of psychopathic serial killers who are glorified by the mass media. Contains some of the most graphic depictions of violence and mayhem ever captured on film and certainly lived up to its reputation in that respect. But the 60s-style filmmaking (black and white, 8mm, and film alternating) gets repetitive and whatever point Stone was trying to make (i.e. The OJ Simpson trial, which was going on when this film was released) is lost in this sea of disturbing violence. After Jones' Oscar-winning performance in THE FUGITIVE, it's hard to fathom why he would stoop to this. Rated R for graphic violence, grisly images, profanity, drug use, sexual situations, sexual innuendoes, and nudity.

This film is a piece of trash, nihilistic and absolutely shameful, what in the world did Hollywood have to do with this?, this is a shamefully, truly piece of trash film from one of the greatest film directors in history oliver stone who graced us with wall street, JFK, Platoon, the cast is incredibly awful, the music is ridiculous, the camera scenes are truly violent and nihilistic and everything else is mean-spirited, truly dreadful and truly, truly banal, woody Harrelson is terrible in this and so is the rest of them (Including Oscar winning actor tommy lee jones from the fugitive fame), shame on us for our kids and the American people for supporting this shameful, truly shameful, hiediousness, this piece of junk ranks right up there with I Spit on your grave as one of the worst films I've ever seen. Has Hollywood lost it? Movie Rating: NO STARS.

This film had nothing going for it, even for entertainment value. And if you're going to call it a satire on "Social Criticism", that's just like saying Disney is a spoof on William S. Burroughs! Oliver Stone essentially made a bad movie on purpose, and assumed that the "cult art house" audience would make up a meaning for it and turn it into a religion.(I once knew a girl at work who wore a sterling coiled snake ring for a full year, shortly after the movie's release.) Folks, this movie wasn't supposed to have a meaning, it was a flat out awful turkey, just like it was made to be!

This is one of my all time favourite casts. Woody, Juliette, Rodney, Robert, and of course the unsurpassed Steven Wright. I enjoyed every moment of this film, especially the acting. To all those Americans who think it's too violent. Stop complaining about the movies and get rid of all your guns, because it's your guns that are killing people, not your movies!