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Natural Born Killers

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Natural Born Killers (1994)

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Reviews Counted: 28 Fresh: 14  Rotten:14 Average Rating: 5.8/10

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Runtime: 3 hrs 2 mins

Synopsis: Oliver Stone's over-the-top satire on America's worshipful fascination with tabloid criminals stars Woody Harrelson as Mickey Knox and Juliette Lewis as girlfriend-wife Mallory Wilson. Commencing with the dual murder of Mallory's sexually abusive father (Rodney Dangerfield) and... Oliver Stone's over-the-top satire on America's worshipful fascination with tabloid criminals stars Woody Harrelson as Mickey Knox and Juliette Lewis as girlfriend-wife Mallory Wilson. Commencing with the dual murder of Mallory's sexually abusive father (Rodney Dangerfield) and grossly negligent mother (Edie McClurg), the anomic couple take off on a three-week killing spree across the country, telling everyone who they are so that they get the credit for their crimes. The media are immediately enthralled with the couple, especially Wayne Gale (Robert Downey Jr.), the bloodthirsty host of a tabloid TV show who follows their every move. By the time they're finally arrested, they've become such huge media stars that the cops treat them more like celebrities than criminals. Even the maniacal limelight-hogging warden of the Batongaville State Prison, Dwight McClusky (Tommy Lee Jones), is in awe. Stone pulls out all the stops in the prison riot, as the unwitting Gale becomes an unwilling participant in his own broadcast of the event. Again the director switches from film to video, from color to black and white, from sitcom parody to newsreel parody, and from one film stock to another, hoping to jar the audience out of its complacency with visual hyperbole. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey, Tommy Lee Jones, Tom Sizemore

Director: Oliver Stone
Screenwriter: David Veloz
Story: Quentin Tarantino

DVD Info

Release:

Jun 10, 2008

[DVD Details]

Blu-ray Features:

  • Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 2.0 - English

Text/Photo Galleries:

  • Essay - Oliver Stone, Director
  • Photos - Never Before Available Photos

Additional Product:

  • Booklet

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3.5/4

Profane, hallucinogenic, and wickedly satirical, Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers mainlined a message from hell (a.k.a. modern America, as seen by Stone) into mall theatres and multiplexes. [Blu-Ray]

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06/23/08
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews
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6/10

Stone has guts, I'll grant him that; but he needn't have spilled so much of it in our laps.

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06/10/08
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com
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01/26/06
Time Out
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1/10

An incoherent, experimental acid trip so unbearably pretentious that it gave me newfound respect for the Warren Commission. A real torture test.

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01/25/06
Chuck O'Leary
Fantastica Daily
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4/5

One of the most dazzling, audacious and timely films, a feverish nightmare of American culture at its worst, which might explain the heated controversy and legal battles caused directly by Stone's picture.

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01/03/06
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
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4/4

Sick, twisted, and brilliant.

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01/05/04
Michael Dequina
Mr. Brown's Movies
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2.5/5

As a satirist, [Stone's] an elephant ballerina.

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05/20/03
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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2/4

America's obsession with tabloid television and with the psychopaths whose lives the shows sensationalize is the ostensible target of Oliver Stone's latest bombastic and self-righteous exploration of evil in America.

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05/20/03
Leonard Schwarz
Palo Alto Weekly
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1/5

Flashy, loathsome, and utterly empty.

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05/14/03
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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2/5

[Stone's] idea of subtlety is to put a velvet Crown Royale sack over a hammer before he smacks you in the face with it repeatedly.

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03/18/03
Brian Mckay
eFilmCritic.com
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0/5

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03/04/03
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion
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3/5

No review available.

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01/14/03
Dan Marcucci and Nancy Serougi
Broomfield Enterprise
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4/4

Oliver Stone does an amazing job behind the camera, and the editing is totally delirious: it's one of the most visually dazzling films I've ever seen.

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09/10/02
Kevin N. Laforest
Montreal Film Journal
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5/5

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07/26/02
Scott Weinberg
eFilmCritic.com
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Made in the style of an MTV video...Natural Born Killers is exactly the kind of bullying, mindless assault that Stone excoriates the media for perpetrating.

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01/09/02
Stephen Farber
Movieline
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3/4

This is one of my all time favorite movies, and it put Oliver Stone on my list of 'Best Directors Ever,' right along with Stanley [Kubrick].

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05/12/01
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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81/100

Stone can’t make a point subtly –- and yes, even a brutal, hallucinogenic movie like this one would benefit from some subtlety.

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03/21/01
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide
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4/5

The film's delightful to watch, mainly because it appears to be the largest budgeted student film ever made.

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02/13/01
Mike Bracken
Mike Bracken's Horror Films
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1.5/4

Stone's attempt to break new ground with stylized visuals, MTV editing and a story that combines parody and satire, is more annoying than enlightening.

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01/01/00
Chris Hicks
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
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Welcome to Natural Born Killers, Stone's empty, manic meditation on society's glorification of violence and the ugly heroes it loves to hate.

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01/01/00
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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