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Natural Born Killers explodes off the screen with style, but its satire is too blunt to offer any fresh insight into celebrity or crime -- pummeling the audience with depravity until the effect becomes deadening. Read critic reviews
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Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis are two young, attractive serial killers who become tabloid-TV darlings, thanks to a sensationalistic press led by Robert Downey Jr. The press reports the pair as they go on a 52 people killing spree. A controversial look at the way the media portrays criminals.
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Rating: R (Graphic Carnage|Extreme Violence|Sexuality|Shocking Images|Strong Language)
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Genre: Crime, Drama
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Original Language: English
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Director: Oliver Stone
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Producer: Jane Hamsher, Don Murphy, Clayton Townsend
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Writer: Quentin Tarantino, David Veloz, Richard Rutowski, Oliver Stone
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Release Date (Theaters): wide
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Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
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Production Co: Alcor Films, J D Productions, Warner Brothers, New Regency Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, Ixtlan Corporation, Regency Enterprises
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Sound Mix: Dolby SR, DTS, Stereo, Surround, Dolby A, Dolby Digital
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Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)
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A cult film if I ever saw one. Natural Born Killers is the Rocky Horror Picture Show of crime films and its surprising how many bad reviews it has. The artsy nonsense of the film often drowns the actual plot which is frustrating for a mainstream audience and I didn't expect the film to be so art-house in its approach to two road trip serial killers. It also wasn't as bloody as I'd heard it was. The acting from Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr. and Woody Harrelson is extremely committed and believable. The film is let down by its second half which is no where near as captivating or interesting as the first but I think that this is purposely done to (spoiler alert) show the contrast between the hallucinatory romance of the road and the gloomy insides of a high security prison. The music is really amazing as well and the script is gorgeously written.
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The acting is fantastic, but the narrative suffers from being so over the top that occasionally it doesn't make sense. The random intercuts that don't even pertain to the scene they're being intercut into completely severs the story and the lighting doesn't make sense. Artsy, yes. Does it work? Debatable.
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A hardcore satire on a sensationalist media, Oliver Stone's classic will shock and unsettle, leaving you in a state of awe at what we have become. Natural Born Killers addresses the moral decay of the media and society as a whole in a way rarely seen on the silver screen. The sheer brutality of this film may be off-putting to most, as it is among the most violent films I have ever seen in my life. It is also highly stylized, but not in a way as to glorify the violence. Conversely, the style makes it even more uncomfortable to watch, and that's to Stone's credit. Any film that can get such a visceral reaction out of its audience is doing something right. ~ B+
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'Natural Born Killers' is one of the only films I've ever watched where I am generally uncertain as to what I feel. Never before have I had such a mixed reaction to such a Marmite style picture, and I probably won't have a similar reaction ever again. The film directed by one of my new favourites, Oliver Stone, tells the story of Mickey and Mallory, played by Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis respectively. M and M are two psychopathic serial killers, actually they prefer mass murderers, who we follow through life with all their bloodbaths along the way. Stone however is less interested in the violence, but the causes of their violence. Through a combination of drugged up sequences, flashbacks in the style of 70s sitcoms and the strangest combination of storytelling I've ever seen. Putting aside the content for a moment, the acting alone on 'Natural Born Killers' stands out as some of the finest, in an extremely over the top way. Stone breaks with his serious masterpieces such as 'Platoon' and 'Wall Street', choosing cheesy, yet powerful over the top acting. Harrelson and Lewis perform admirably, but it's Robert Downey Junior's turn as Australian TV host Wayne Gale, and Tommy Lee Jones role as the prison warden which really take the cake. Both Downey Jr and Jones create the strangest characters with layers overlapping and breaking through the surface. They make you laugh, they make you cry. But aside from the acting the rest of the film gives me mixed impressions. The cinematography is impressive but constructed in such a deliberately comic fashion that it gets on my nerves eventually. The storyline seems to be ever so slightly pointless and the message blurred by the violence. I expected a more hardened opinion a few days after I watched it and the film earned perspective. Instead I am left unsure what to think and for that reason I give it two and a half stars, halfway good, halfway bad, unsure whether 'Natural Born Killers' is the masterpiece many make it out to be or just a plain disappointment.
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