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Natural Born Killers

Natural Born Killers

1994
Romance, Drama
1h 59m
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Rated 14 Aug 2007
0
0th
A trashy Bonnie & Clyde / Badlands ripoff and a stupid, amoral, pompous, thoroughly unenjoyable attempt at satire. Its makers' insistance that it is intended as a criticism of sensationalistic public reaction to crime is obvious bullshit, seeing as the movie itself is a uniquely self-satisfied celebration of cartoonish violence and not much else. I loathe this movie with a passion.
Rated 22 Feb 2008
29
8th
Interesting premise and commentary on the media, but the ADHD visual style just kills it completely. This isn't just style over substance, this is style kicking substance's ass and screaming constantly at the viewer to look at it. Very hard to watch, and not in the way that was intended.
Rated 20 Jan 2007
40
10th
One of the most self-fellatingly "edgy" movies ever made. Parts of it are intriguing, but mostly it's irritating and obnoxious.
Rated 14 Jun 2009
30
9th
Piece of tasteless trash with the facade of artsy social criticism. Oliver Stone loves doing things in excess, and in this one its his pretensions that are done in excess - shoved forcefully in your face as a two-hour string of hyperactive, gut-churning visuals mixed with heavy-handed, gleeful violence and unbearable self-righteousness. If you can get past all this, you may find some entertaining moments and competent filmmaking, but frankly it's not worth it.
Rated 08 Apr 2010
90
95th
The ADHD-style of the film is obviously a component of what the film is about: kids zapping between channels, flooded by commercials, MTV, sensationalist news, crime reenactments, reality shows; the whole birth of people who view TV and videogames as life, boredom being the worst of horrors and fame the greatest achievement of all.
Rated 19 May 2021
96
92nd
With due respect to Quentin Tarantino, this is a great movie of his screenplay. Stone's direction is perfect as the film moves well, looks beautiful, and has an amazing Trent Reznor soundtrack. Conservative critics & politicians wrongly called it too controversial. Instead it's a profound statement on how America turns anti-heroes into idols. But most importantly it predates the O.J. trial & true crime podcasts by showing a cultural fascination of turning horror into media content. Astounding.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
98
99th
The perfect movie/subject matter for Oliver Stone's unique directorial style. Suprisingly good performances from so many actors in this one, with character development so deep you really root for the right people. So much more than senseless violence.
Rated 24 Sep 2007
85
96th
Everything about this movie is violent, not just the blood and guns, but the dialogues, the editing , the soundtrack etc, etc... Even the romantic scenes were brutal. The animated scenes and the projections were genius and the superfast pace keeps the adrenaline pumping at all times. Juliette lewis plays an excellent lolita-on-fire and Tommy Lee Jones is absolutely hilarious as the redneck prison warden. Wicked.
Rated 17 Aug 2010
1
2nd
A half-baked, showy exploration of media-induced fear through the perspective of serial killers. Not only a movie that should've destroyed Stone's credibility as a competent director but a film that's as tasteless as it looks. You wouldn't expect this kind of sophomoric effort from a seasoned director. In other words, aim low kids.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
57
17th
Sophomoric cynicism and gimmicky filmmaking abound. I couldn't really stomach either, as the camera movements and visual style became too frenetic and loopy for my taste, and every secondary character shouts and gestures gratingly like a bad cartoon character.
Rated 27 Aug 2008
15
1st
What a f'in mess. Oliver Stone needs medication. Insufferable obnoxiousness under the guise of Art. Pretentious nonsense, but offensively so. At least be quietly pretentious. Like an attack of migraine headaches.
Rated 30 Dec 2008
50
33rd
A love-it-or-hate-it movie, with heavy and daring content. There is lot of style on this one, but everything seems to be too exagerated and pretentious, and these excesses might have ruined a good idea.
Rated 02 May 2007
25
20th
Tarantino should direct what he writes: Exhibit B.
Rated 08 Aug 2007
83
87th
Mind blowing, and you can take that quite literally.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
90
95th
Relentless and pulse pounding psychedelic violence. If you're not put off by the frantic editing style, this is pure entertainment. Robert Downey Jr's sleazy TV talk show host is a highlight.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
95
93rd
Twisted, but very entertaining.
Rated 10 Jun 2008
96
97th
pure madness! love the music! and the acting! a classic!
Rated 11 Dec 2008
90
84th
There are so many stupid cutted and synchronised germans versions... only look the original!
Rated 02 May 2009
84
74th
While watching this movie, despite you know, they are mass murderers, you do not feel very angry about them. Despite all that blood, you do no find it that scary. And you find killing quite exciting and sexy. This movie is something absolutely different, than you have ever saw. Unfortunately, it gets little boring somethimes.
Rated 02 Nov 2009
95
98th
Strangely, most negative reviews of this movie say that it is exactly what it criticizes. That's kind of a head-scratcher, because that's the whole point. The difference between this satire and something like Funny Games is that Stone does not want to teach you a lesson. He does not want to create an artsy indictment of mainstream media. He merely describes what's already there. This film is a bewildering mind-fuck that perfectly captures the 90s zeitgeist.
Rated 07 May 2015
89
99th
The film is full of allusions to Clockwork Orange.
Rated 21 Feb 2007
20
13th
Ugly, over stylized pseudo satire, but it has a deliciously twisted turn from Rodney Dangerfield of all people going for it, and Robert Downey jr. is his usual bizarrely fun self.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
85
91st
Have yet to see movie done in this way since. Sin city close. Harrelson makes a great bad guy.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
97
93rd
I think this movie fundamentally changed me. I saw it when I was about 14 and thought it was about the coolest thing I'd ever seen. Almost as good as Pulp Fiction. So brutal. So ingenious.
Rated 25 Aug 2007
96
86th
Classic Bonnie & Clyde storyline with social commentary on the desensitization of America & its glorification of mass-media. Psychedelic, violent, and poignant with an incredible soundtrack.
Rated 21 Sep 2007
3
61st
A nightmarish car crash of genres and styles. It may not be a phenomenal film and its message is strange and simple, but it's entertaining as hell.
Rated 15 Jan 2008
30
10th
Let's throw everything against the wall and see what sticks!
Rated 22 Jan 2008
75
71st
Viollent. It has an interesting idea and a criticism behind everything.
Rated 16 Mar 2008
90
92nd
Okay but which cut did you watch, just exactly how much time was Rodney Dangerfield on screen???
Rated 01 May 2008
90
91st
Excessive, but/and ultimately forceful satire.
Rated 09 May 2008
20
4th
I couldn't get past an hour. It does some cool things from time to time, but holy hell this movie was unbearable.
Rated 14 Jun 2008
74
85th
godo movie
Rated 12 Jul 2008
91
94th
Harrelson at his best.
Rated 28 Aug 2008
98
98th
well made,something I remember after years
Rated 14 Sep 2008
77
76th
Incredibly psychedelic, violent, mind blowing and disturbing. Apparently the visuals haven't been appreciated by many people, but they sure worked on me. Natural Born Killers is a satire on the way the media glorifies violence as if it's the only thing worth talking about. Very good movie if you ask me.
Rated 16 Sep 2008
100
95th
ARGH! A strong candidate for the "Pink Floyd The Wall Award" for most insane movie of the '90s
Rated 14 Dec 2008
77
61st
While I don't see it as a critically acclaimed masterpiece like some, Natural Born Killers is a promising but sometimes messy clash of styles, and it fucks up at doing that in most times. I mean come on, the sex scenes looked like gun fights. Still, it's good and it deserves a couple viewings among movie fans.
Rated 25 Jan 2009
100
97th
This is one of my favorite movies, it rocks.
Rated 08 Mar 2009
60
50th
A trillion genres and styles mashed together makes for a not very coherent viewing experience. The film never seems to begin as it constantly jumps from one oddity to the next. Harrelson and Lewis are great along with Sizemore, Downey Jr. and especially Lee Jones. An extreme statement, bold even, but not entirely succesful.
Rated 09 Apr 2009
25
43rd
An over-the-top assault on an audience's sensibilities, making its points with a heavy hand and a brutally jokey style, utilizing ever movie- and video=making style in its deadly assault through a dislocating barrage of images. The message of all this manipulation is that the media manipulate violence for their own sensationalist aims. As a technical exercise, it is dazzling; as a contribution to a moral debate, it is deadening.
Rated 10 Jun 2009
80
91st
A no holds barred full on action, which although it is directed by Stone, has Tarantino written all over it. Just take a "look" at the soundtrack.
Rated 21 Dec 2009
84
86th
Sometimes it can be a bit difficult to focus on this (it simply goes everywhere at once), but visually this is a truly unique experience. The latter half of this movie is action packed and stylized in an amazing manner. This is not a movie to miss, I doubt there will be anything quite like it again.
Rated 30 Mar 2010
96
99th
Fantastical, brutal, grungy and hilarious. Such a great film.
Rated 31 Mar 2010
54
61st
I love the story, but I hate the execution. The camera angles almost made me sick half the time. It just felt like a two hour acid trip. The movie does get much much better half way through. I loved Robert Downey Jr. and Tommy Lee Jones, great acting. Maybe with a different director this would have been an amazing movie, but sadly it is not.
Rated 09 Nov 2010
70
77th
It's a movie that could be studied for days in a school classroom, if this were allowed. It uses heavy symbolism throughout, and while the sporadic editing initially, it ultimately makes the film unique. There is some good acting to be had, especially in Robert Downey Jr, whose Australian accent, while pointless, is entertaining by itself. The film has a message, one that it isn't subtle, but even if taken at face value, still manages to be an odd, yet entertaining experience.
Rated 15 Nov 2010
55
56th
Despite the hyperkinetic editing and gallons of blood blasted onto walls, the only interesting thing about this was Tommy Lee Jones as a cracked out prison warden. Any point that was to be made about the intersection of violence and entertainment is never articulated beyond some extras babbling about Manson. Natural Born Killers seems like a huge missed opportunity and evidence that Oliver Stone had yet to visit rehab in 1994.
Rated 01 Jan 2011
88
66th
Natural Born Killers is visually complex and thematically simple. Mixing film and video, black-and-white and color, morphing and animation, Stone breaks visual ground here for a major studio release.
Rated 17 Jan 2011
91
92nd
Dark and awesome
Rated 22 Mar 2011
0
1st
Did anyone finish this awful movie?
Rated 21 Apr 2011
44
7th
I didn't like Stone's visual style in this movie. Quite irritating and it made me slightly nauseous. Also: the movie is too violent.
Rated 08 May 2011
100
94th
This is a total nightmare of a film. What people think of as its ultimate failing, that it bought into the narrative it was trying to warn against, is actually a great strength. Stone, by himself succumbing to the myth of serial killer as hero, has shown just how pervasive and dangerous that mentality is, and how the media makes it seem sexy.
Rated 15 Aug 2011
85
96th
A criminally underrated modern masterpiece, Oliver Stone's controversial satire of modern violence and the people who cover it for our living rooms resonates greatly even today. What makes it timeless, however, is a mish-mash of visual and dramatic styles.
Rated 28 Jan 2012
67
52nd
Crazy, but is that all a movie needs? Pure adrenaline soaked crazy?
Rated 09 Apr 2012
100
96th
A gutsy, completely outrageous and ultra violent look at celebrity culture, murder, and how the two intersect.
Rated 13 Jun 2012
15
1st
Lots of people seemed to like this.
Rated 19 Dec 2013
98
98th
It's a very obvious film with a very obvious message but it's wrapped in such a stylish film I just enjoy it more and more every time. I think I just really enjoy how many different things it throws at the audience, like sensory overload. The soundtrack has always been a favourite of mine too, and Downey Jr. is pretty entertaining. I mean yeah if you want something you can think about rather than be lectured on it's pretty shitty. But it's pretty great otherwise.
Rated 21 Apr 2014
55
47th
Mumbo jumbo.
Rated 11 Aug 2014
100
99th
To watch this movie is to get sucked into a country's consciousness trapped in the command of fear, spellbound by the entertainment of it all at once. We view Mickey and Mallory with the same separated allure as we do the local news freak shows, reviling their wickedness but bathing them in unbroken interest, even unspoken awe. And they'd see us the same way.
Rated 15 Feb 2015
96
98th
In its style alone, this film could arguably be defined as annoyingly overdone, but it's hard to criticize that when its just parodying the overly-edited sensationalist "news" programmes its satirizing. This unique and masochistically enjoyable style has some clever and visceral directorial decisions (green lighting to emphasize sickness), at the core of it is the punk and liberated couple who couldn't be happier together, and I appreciate all the hyperbole supporting them and their story.
Rated 11 Feb 2016
100
95th
I enjoy how the scenes switch, really creative and so many weird details.
Rated 09 Feb 2017
80
92nd
Stone's renegade critique of mass media violence is about as subtle as a shotgun blast to the face and is surely one of the most daring films ever released by a major studio. The accusations generally leveled against it aren't entirely wrong--it is hypocritical, pretentious and juvenile in equal measure--but it is also a genuine original, an anarchic freewheeling takedown that finds its visual correlative in a corrosive collage aesthetic that's formally assaultive and completely hypnotic.
Rated 11 Jun 2017
93
98th
Speaks for itself.
Rated 20 Jan 2020
60
47th
The movie equivalent to a Tequila Suicide. The style is over the top, and the two protagonists are great.
Rated 19 Jul 2020
94
71st
Anything with Rodney Dangerfield in it that is also an iconic classic movie.
Rated 01 Oct 2020
100
99th
Absolutely loved it, batshit insane in every way. I usually hate when a movie is overstyled, but here it's so, so ridiculously grotesque, and it just doesn't stop – this movie is a constant non-stop stream of insanity
Rated 07 Feb 2021
76
53rd
The story of a killer couple whose violence is interpreted in cartoon or sitcom humor. It was almost the funniest role of the Tommy Lee Jones I've ever watched.Also it has no pros over other examples of its kind.But it's still a funny narrative.
Rated 12 Dec 2006
90
87th
Fantastic.
Rated 12 Dec 2006
94
98th
Satire that is so incredibly over the top that some of the film's more subtle and ingenious touches get lost in the spectacle.
Rated 18 Dec 2006
1
12th
soooooooooo overrated
Rated 21 Dec 2006
87
69th
scariest shit ever
Rated 15 Feb 2007
93
93rd
Everytime I watch Natural Born Killers, I wonder why Woody Harrelson isn't a bigger star. Then I remember how much he likes marijuana and I understand.
Rated 26 Feb 2007
70
82nd
Excellent.
Rated 09 Mar 2007
60
15th
Cool when I was 8
Rated 27 Apr 2007
50
8th
Blah...too artsy fartsy. Could have been a good movie, but they fell short trying to make themselves look cool
Rated 08 May 2007
80
54th
A messy and often brilliant satire on the mass media. Oliver Stone does it again.
Rated 26 May 2007
85
97th
Drugs are bad!
Rated 31 May 2007
65
47th
a nice attempt, but the entire movie is pointless until the interview
Rated 01 Jul 2007
40
8th
Shrill, annoying and over-the-top in the worst way possible. Good actors are wasted. Whatever this movie was trying to say, it shouted over the top of it, and drowned it out.
Rated 29 Jul 2007
10
3rd
Absolute garbage. Another movie I shut off before it ended, out of spite.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
99
99th
just fucking brutal!!!
Rated 14 Aug 2007
75
62nd
trippy!!!
Rated 14 Aug 2007
25
14th
I hate Oliver Stone. And this movie is a big part of why. It's not just the violence; it's the glee the film takes in it. Yes, yes, I know -- it's done for a REASON. But, in the end, when one more eye gets gouged out or another artery gushes copious amounts of blood, does it matter that it's done to make a point?
Rated 14 Aug 2007
79
75th
Graphic, but I love Harrelson and Downey Jr., great chemistry. Oh, and some dude called Tarantino, he's pretty alright as well.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
20
3rd
Watched at the cinema at time of release, and was not in great shape at the time, but my recollection is that it was terrible.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
70
79th
Better than i want it to be.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
83
77th
Crazy and violent, but an incredible jolt of movie rush. I love Juliette Lewis in this movie, and the music is awesome.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
70
77th
Great subtext about the role of the media in building people to be heroes and corrupting innoncent people to hold bad people too a high esteem.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
95
94th
Geeeenius
Rated 14 Aug 2007
70
24th
Pretty cool, and really surrealistic. Interesting to watch and sort of memorable, but obviously not to be taken seriously.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
60
73rd
serious shit
Rated 14 Aug 2007
45
25th
It sadens me to see such a great screen play turned into this pitiful escuse of a movie. Do yourself a favor and read the screen play.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
70
15th
I have seen this movie through several times, each time hoping it'll reverse my opinion of it. There is good material, but it's bogged down by excess.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
37
26th
Weak and generally stupid. Fake and fantastically over-rated this movie is just like most stories in the media. Anything to sell you a product.
Rated 19 Aug 2007
75
12th
Stupid, but I would watch it on HBO if it came on.
Rated 22 Aug 2007
80
80th
Excellent, ultra-violent piercing satire about the glorification of crime by the media.
Rated 23 Aug 2007
78
40th
A would-be masterpiece that got ruined by an over-indulgent director.
Rated 28 Aug 2007
80
86th
8- highly recommended, great
Rated 28 Aug 2007
95
66th
Uau.
Rated 16 Sep 2007
60
39th
Stylish and with a strong cast, but a bit hypocritical. I also feel that most fans like it for all the wrong reasons.
Rated 02 Oct 2007
40
12th
esse filme nao parecia tao ruim 10 anos atras

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