Natural Born Killers
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Movie Reviews of Natural Born Killers
Movie Review: Shooting for Hip, Hitting Pointless
Summary: 2 Stars
Oliver Stone proves to be just as reliable as a social critic as he is a "historian."
PLATOON and BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY were great films but JFK, though brilliantly made, was a sign that something was off about Stone's mental processes.
NATURAL BORN KILLERS could have been a scathing indictment of our media's obsession with violence and decadence...but instead it's just Exhibit A in the indictment, wallowing in the filth it tries to satirize.
Movie Review: Trash
Summary: 1 Stars
that's the one word that can sum this movie up....I hated it...I dont mind violence, but what I do mind is when it's done to the extreme and with a sadistic, very cold blooded tone..and this movie had a LOT of that....nonstop.....if you love watching a woman in a cafe begging for her life before getting a bullet in the head, or a man crawling on all fours in a pharmacy, begging for his life before getting executed, then this movie is for you. I might also suggest you get some therapy. for others, go ahead and watch it, but make sure you have steal wool and bleach to scour yourself with afterward....
Movie Review: One of Oliver Stone's best films.
Summary: 4 Stars
Released just long enough ago to be forgotten by today's standard of speed amnesia, this film by Oliver Stone is worth seeing again. The violence in it was sickening years ago, but such things have quickly gotten normalized in our culture's ongoing desensitization. Ironically, this very process of media desensitization is precisely the topic of this film's satire. On top of that, few understood Stone's film was a satire and instead accused him of promoting violence. This is a tragedy because "Natural Born Killers" really is a sharp and funny satire that helped to usher in the 90s with Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction".
It might be over the top, violent, and flashy but it works! The effect may make you a bit dizzy, it may disturb, and may even offend you, but it's great cinema. "In Cold Blood", "Badlands", and "Bonnie & Clyde", can be compared to this film due to fact its about two killers on the road who are madly in love with each other. Unlikely movie stars Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis play Mickey and Malory. Through a few frantic and imaginative scenes we see them meet, fall in love, murder Malory's abusive father, and hit the road. These scenes are instantly unforgettable, bearing a wit that may be overt, but is funny enough to accept. Meanwhile our heroes become a media sensation thanks to the TV show "American Maniacs", hosted by Wayne Gale (Robert Downey Jr. with a British accent).
Under-appreciated actor Tom Sizemore ("True Romance", "Heat") plays detective Jack Scagnetti, the celebrity homicide cop who pursues and eventually captures Mickey and Malory (in what has to be one of the best, most intense arrest scenes in screen history). In the context of this film, he is a villain, but he is a human being just the same. He leads us into the second half of this picture, which has Mickey and Malory behind bars awaiting a big TV interview with Wayne Gale on Super bowl Sunday. Tensions build to one of the best climaxes a crime or prison movie ever had.
Rodney Dangerfield, Russell Means, and Tommy Lee Jones put in highly memorable appearances in supporting roles. On the director's cut DVD we see cut footage of performances from Ashley Judd (her best work) and Dennis Leary. "Natural Born Killers" is many great small parts adding up to an even better whole.
If your curious about "Natural Born Killers" then I recommend this film to you, including the movies I mentioned above. This film will simply blow you away, in the good sense.
Movie Review: no title
Summary: 5 Stars
A hurtful, violent, breathtaking movie. Harrelson is perfect here - so focused, so scary because you know he's for real. The images and camera shots are incredibly innovative. Meant for the TV generation that needs all its info in split second sound bites. That's what they get. The only jarring note, and it's a big one, is Tommy Lee Jones, surprisingly. He is way, way over the top, just too cartoonish to be believed. Harrelson is sinister; Jones seems merely foolish. And that has to be Stone's fault, for Jones is ordinarily very good, and very chilling, which is what was needed here. He was just, too, too camp, from his hairstyle to his suit. I'm not sure I've ever seen a more violent movie (well, "Reservoir Dogs"). Did Stone go overboard with it? Many reviewers called it a satire; maybe, maybe not. It is the total opposite of "Forest Gump"; surely in its way a satire too. One of goodness, one of evil. And "Killers" meshed very well with Clint Eastwood's "A Perfect World". It's not really TV that is the culprit; it's the parents. Movie Review: A tantalizing portrait society!
Summary: 3 Stars
The well known generated controversy around this very special movie aroused extreme commentaries around the world. Oliver Stone built a provocative and corrosive parody around a couple absolutely surrounded by a sick violence atmosphere.
To my mind there were just two premises that visibly affected his final purposes; a marked excess of personal ambition and narcissist self tribute (after all who can deny his absolute domain around his discursive lexicon shown in JFK for instance), loading the screen of vertiginous visual innovations which resulted quite effective during the first ten minutes, but absolutely pernicious due the reiterative abuse of those sensationalist devices; on the other hand Stone also incurred into the orgiastic and bombastic flow he pretended to underline, being eventually dragged by this frenetic burden of violence which pitifully became a boomerang for him.
All the unjustified excesses eventually, reflect a certain lack of discursive material.