Rating: Summary: It Views Like a Deluxe Pizza Spinning Out of Control Review: What a foul mess of a film and complete waste of the top-notch actors employed to tell this tiresome yet revolting tale. Cliche-ridden, obscene in the first, second, and third degree, replete with puerile cinematic chicanery, Natural Born Killers is a dazzling failure. Poor Oliver Stone. He created the cinematic equivalency of visiting a tatoo parlour after consuming great quantities of distilled spirits. In other words, a big mistake.
Rating: Summary: Titles are stupid. Review: It's hard to know where to begin. The director's cut is the only version I have seen of this film, and I was happily impressed by what I saw.While this film lacks any real plot, and the dialogue is often hard to understand due to a noisy background combined with thick, southern accents, Natural Born Killers is a movie experience filled with incredible imagery and insight. Living up to its reputation, NBK is a ride of chaos into the dark minds of two unfeeling killers and the glorification of such drama over America's media waves. You can't help but love and hate the protagonists, and you can't help but admire what Oliver Stone dared to attempt. This film is crazy, loud, fast, furious and fun. Along the same vein, check out Stone's 'Any Given Sunday'.
Rating: Summary: The Director's Cut of "Natural Born Killers" is awesome!! Review: This is got to be one of the coolest films ever made. I've seen "Natural Born Killers" when it first came out in theaters back in 1994. It was a good movie. I've always heard that there was a lot of violence cut out of this movie until the Director's Cut of Natural Born Killers came along years later. I finally saw the Director's Cut last year and it was much better than the theatrical release back in 1994. According to Oliver Stone (the movie's director), there was 150 cuts left out of the theatrical version and it's been restored in the director's cut. I think "Natural Born Killers" is a good movie, But with the director's cut, It's even better especially with a lot of graphic violence restored and additional dialogue. I recommended the director's cut over the theatrical version. I really think it's that good.
Rating: Summary: Unwatchable Review: I've tried to watch this [film] several times, but the editing is so abominally bad that it is a total a waste of time. As anyone knows, the job of the film editor is to be invisible. This travesty is in-your -face- editing, obnoxious, obtrusive, amateurish. Add to that the total lack of talent from Woody, and the totally inept diection of Holywood's most over-rated director and you have one of the worst films to come out in the last 50 years. The film industry should be ashamed to ever let this piece out if the can.
Rating: Summary: Strong Message but could have been said better Review: The movie has become very famous due to its extreme violece and little retribution to the characters who commit these acts. many have said that this caused things such as the Colombine shootings. the people who say this obviously did not get the message of the film but their claim is not completey invalid as tere IS lots of violence in this film. slow minded teenagers might not get the message and just revel in its violence. that out of the way, id have to give thuis movie 3.5 stars if i could. see, i enjoy the biting satire (although at some points rediculous) and the message but quite frankly, this movie gives me a headache. i found it hard to focus on anything happening while Stone switched from black and white, to color, to grainy 70's style color, to stock footage, to negative colors, to odd camera angles and warped lenses. this complete bombardment of the sense may have been good IN MODERATION and with a purpose. i would understand if they were on drugs (ala Fear And Loathing) but they're not constanlty on drugs. sometimes it works as to portray it as on televsion but the constant change is mind numbing to say the least. ...
Rating: Summary: No redeeming social value but strangely compelling. Review: Be forewarned: this movie contains copious scenarios of gratuitous violence. For responsible adults only. This film uses a compelling blend of surreal cinematography and animation to convey the drugged-out world perceived by its protagonists, Mickey and Mallory. When I first saw it, I was appalled. However, I found it increasingly compelling and entertaining after repeated viewings. Don't expect a moving love story, or the tale of two rebels unjustly persecuted by society. Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis play two BAD people out to kill anyone and everyone just for the thrill of it. If you enjoy well produced films and visual spectacles, and can park your morals at the door for a couple of hours, I would recommend this film. If not, it would be best to pass on this one.
Rating: Summary: this disk is one of the best buys i've made. Review: its in my favoraite disks folder. i'm usually not to crazy about dvd extras but the alternate ending is very good i thought. i've had no problems playing this dvd. i'm even thinking to buy the directors cut dvd for fun. maybe anyway . this disk is a good buy.
Rating: Summary: moments of smirking depravity and vile intent Review: A flamboyant mess of a movie with moments of smirking depravity and vile intent. Mickey (Woody Harrelson) and Mallory (Juliette Lewis) are the lionized mass murderers who escape their half-parodied white trash backgrounds to eventually be captured, only to escape from prison. Stylized grandeur overwhelms the watcher; effective scenes like the killers' brief awakening to humanity with an Indian mystic is lost in a tirade of foul collages and flashing memories. Here the director is indulging his talent but missing the point in doing so.
Rating: Summary: VERY,VERY BIZZARE,BUT... Review: First things first,Oliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers" has to be one of the most bizzare films in recent history! Bizzare meaning that you can interpet this film two ways,either you'll see it as a crazy,strange physcedlic mess or as a daring, edgy,groundbreaking look into media obession and twisted values. Ultimatly,I look at it as both. The weird editing in "NBK" and strong performances by Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis makes this Stone-directed film NOT your average film. If you're a very image-senstive viewer then "NBK" won't be your cup of tea but looking for something kooky,unbelieval strange,and mind-bending,you gotta see this one!
Rating: Summary: NATURAL BORN KILLERS--Pointed Or Pointless? Review: Ever since it came out in August 1994, Oliver Stone's NATURAL BORN KILLERS has been the subject of much invective, particularly when it comes to the question of whether or not it encourages savagely violent behavior--a charge that has been levelled by society against the media more times than people can remember. It certainly provoked the ire of its original screenwriter Quentin Tarantino, who went to every length imaginable to disown the film because of what Stone did to it. Stone, perhaps our most powerful cinematic maestro in exposing the dark side of America (witness PLATOON and JFK), has set himself up a significant problem in making this ultra-violent film about mass murderers Mickey and Mallory Knox (Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis) killing dozens along U.S. Highway 666 and becoming media celebrities. He has frequently gone on record as stating that this is a savage satire on violence and the media. Stone's material and his method of presenting it, however, are so extreme that the satire is often swamped. This raises the question: Is NATURAL BORN KILLERS really a pointed satire (in the manner of DOCTOR STRANGELOVE and NETWORK) or rather just a pointlessly violent movie? Stone, like Stanley Kubrick, has historically made it a habit of making movies that people talk about years after they are first released. But NATURAL BORN KILLERS, unlike his other achievements, is so over the top that whatever satirical intentions he might have had are buried under a migraine-inducing avalanche of montage sequences, bizarre camera angles, weird camera filters, blood, and bone-crushing alternative and heavy metal rock music. The acting is also so outrageous, especially by Tommy Lee Jones (as Dwight "Welcome To Hell" McClusky) and Robert Downey Jr. (as Wayne Gale, a bizarre caricature of Geraldo with an Australian accent), and the dialogue so extreme and profanity-ridden that the film becomes heavy-handed long before the halfway point is reached. Although I have to give credit to Stone for making the points he does about violence and the media, I don't think he's really telling us anything that a film like NETWORK didn't forsee back in the 1970s--that we would become obsessed by media-glamorized mad dogs. The rapid-fire montage sequences that worked so well in JFK, and which were perhaps inspired by Sam Peckinpah's similar use of them in THE WILD BUNCH, don't always impress this time around. Thus, the verdict here is that NATURAL BORN KILLERS is a film that rests in a vacuum--one where it is easy to admire the technique, but much harder to admire the story
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