Natural Born Killers

1994

Action / Crime / Drama / Romance

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 50% · 50 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 81% · 100K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 250833 250.8K

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Plot summary

Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.


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Robert Downey Jr. as Wayne Gale
Tommy Lee Jones as Warden Dwight McClusky
Rachel Ticotin as Wanda Bisbing
Woody Harrelson as Mickey Knox
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by 851222 8 / 10

Good, unique and highly stylized

Greetings from Lithuania.

"Natural Born Killers" (1994) was and still is a messy on purpose and highly stylized action thriller take on media and its approach to violence. The way media sometimes glorifies violence and murders only to get their ratings higher, and a viewer / consumers who is basically responsible for that. In that regards "Natural Born Killers" do work. I also always liked acting of actors in this movie - its like they are having fun despite of controversy subject of the material. This movie also works as extremely dark comedy. Pacing in pretty good and at running time almost 2 hours this movie never looses its steam. Editing and cinematography were crazy - no other way to put it, but of course it is done on purpose.

Overall, "Natural Born Killers" (1994) is a cult classic movie at this point. Even 28 years after its release its still works i think. Acting is entertaining by everyone, directing is unique and on spot and editing as well cinematography are like no other. Good movie but not for everyone's taste.

Reviewed by JasparLamarCrabb 4 / 10

Oliver Stone(d)

Wow! Oliver Stone makes a David Lynch film...a bad David Lynch film. From a script by Quentin Tarantino no less! Stone over-directs so much it's difficult to know what's going on much less enjoy any of it. It's not thrilling, just brainless violence that's so stylized it's incomprehensible. If that's what Stone had in mind, then he's made a masterpiece. Nevertheless the film has more than just bad direction working against it. The casting of non-entities Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis as Mickey & Mallory, a white trash version of Bonnie & Clyde, whose crime spree is chronicled in gruesome detail by muckraking TV reporter Robert Downey Jr doesn't help. They don't have the depth or gravitas to shines through the muck left behind by Stone's direction. They're lightweights when the film needs the likes of Dennis Hopper and Sissy Spacek. The rest of the cast doesn't fare too well either. Tommy Lee Jones is embarrassingly bad as the prison warden bent on capturing the couple and Downey, affecting an Australian accent, is dismal. Rodney Dangerfield and Edie McClurg have cameos as Lewis's parents. Ashley Judd's scenes were cut from the theatrical release.

Reviewed by MovieAddict2016 7 / 10

You'll love it or hate it.

I remember "Natural Born Killers" making a huge fuss when it was released because the media and conservative families were in an outrage over the level of "glorified violence" in the film. To some extent they were right -- the violence isn't glorified but much of it is unnecessary. The movie could still be a brilliant satire of society/the media without going into such graphic detail -- it's been proved in cinema before that sometimes seeing less is better than gratuity. If Oliver Stone's movie has one outstanding flaw, it's the lack of subtlety.

That said, if you can handle the level of violence and take it tongue-in-cheek, "Natural Born Killers" is so bizarre and funny that it's worth the "trip." (Pun intended.) This is a crazy drug odyssey that would have made Hunter S. Thompson look like Ronald Reagan. The film is twisted, outlandish and out of its mind -- Oliver Stone has gone stone-cold crazy and it's awesome.

Despite my reservations about his lack of subtlety, there is a flip side to the coin: It is a story about excess. Stone's film-making has gone somewhat awry over the years (look at the pointless excess of his films after this), but this fits the bill because it IS a story of excess.

Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis play the titular "Natural Born Killers," Mickey and Mallory, a pair of crazy serial killers who both suffered traumatic childhoods and are now rampaging America on a literal killing spree.

After they are finally apprehended, the media has by now turned them into such icons and glorified personalities that the public and media seems to respect them as titans of filth.

This is where the social satire of the film comes into play, essentially saying: We focus more on the killers than the heroes.

I do think it's a bit hypocritical of Oliver Stone to attempt to point this out, as he is a die-hard liberal at his core and, as the controversy surrounding this film's release proved, the conservatives are too conservative to praise killers. It seems to be the liberal media that glorifies violence (to some extent of course) so I thought Stone would be the last person to ever criticize the media.

So yes it does come across as somewhat of a moot point but nevertheless the film is still enjoyable despite its sometimes sickening amount of over-the-top violence (the opening sequence of the Director's Cut is stomach-turning).

The cast is superb - Rodney Dangerfield, Robert Downey Jr., Tommy Lee Jones, Tom Sizemore, Edie McClurg (the rental car agent from "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" and Rooney's assistant in "Ferris Bueller"!) and Denis Leary and Ashley Judd in deleted scenes included in the Director's Cut.

The story was conceived by Quentin Tarantino (and it's very similar to his "True Romance" script -- a sort of modern-day "Bonnie and Clyde Redux") and re-written by Stone (much to the chagrin of QT). I'm not sure which would have made for a better film but, despite its flaws (which are mainly a none-too-subtle message and too much violence), "Natural Born Killers" is a sort of bizarre, outlandish masterpiece of drugged-out cinema. --

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