Natural Born Killers (1994)
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Reviews Counted: 28 Fresh: 14 Rotten:14 Average Rating: 5.8/10
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... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey, Tommy Lee Jones, Tom Sizemore
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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
Stone has guts, I'll grant him that; but he needn't have spilled so much of it in our laps.
06/10/08
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01/26/06
An incoherent, experimental acid trip so unbearably pretentious that it gave me newfound respect for the Warren Commission. A real torture test.
01/25/06
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.
01/03/06
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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.
05/20/03
[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.
03/18/03
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.
09/10/02
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.
01/09/02
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].
05/12/01
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Stone can’t make a point subtly –- and yes, even a brutal, hallucinogenic movie like this one would benefit from some subtlety.
03/21/01
The film's delightful to watch, mainly because it appears to be the largest budgeted student film ever made.
02/13/01
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.
01/01/00
Welcome to Natural Born Killers, Stone's empty, manic meditation on society's glorification of violence and the ugly heroes it loves to hate.
01/01/00
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