Variety
A heavy duty acid trip, quite possibly the most hallucinatory and anarchic picture made at a major Hollywood studio in at least 20 years.
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Natural Born Killers
Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone (Platoon, JFK) gave his vision of the future with this 1994 crime drama starring Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis as love-struck serial killers, whose murderous actions are glorified by the media that interview the sole survivor of each slaughter. Based on an original story by Quentin Tarantino, co-starring Robert Downey Jr. and Tommy Lee Jones.
Grand Special Jury Prize and Pasinetti Award for Best Actress (Juliette Lewis) at the 1994 Venice Film Festival
1994Rating: R18+, Medium level violence, medium level coarse language119 minsUSA
Drama
- Director:
- Oliver Stone ('Platoon', 'JFK', 'Any Given Sunday', 'Wall Street')
- Writer:
- Oliver StoneRichard RutowskiDavid VelozQuentin Tarantino
- Cast:
- Woody HarrelsonJuliette LewisRobert Downey JrTommy Lee JonesTom SizemoreRodney DangerfieldJared Harris
Natural Born Killers / Reviews
Time Out
Basically, the story is just a tarted up variation of the Badlands/Wild at Heart scenario, with ultra-broad swipes at media and authority figures tossed in for good measure.
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Like all good satirists, he knows that too much realism will weaken his effect. He lets you know he's making a comedy. There's an over-the-top exuberance to the intricate crosscut editing and to the hyperactive camera.
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Entertainment Weekly
Feverish, psychedelic, insanely bloody, the movie is unlike anything you've seen before.
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Empire Magazine
It is difficult to describe NBK as "good entertainment" in any classical sense (non-existent plot, some dialogue is absurdly cliched) and Stone rams home his thesis very crudely.
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