Natural Born Killers Reviews

Natural Born Killers Review
by Carl Miller
 

Natural Born Killers Review
by Eric Walker
NATURAL BORN KILLERS (THE DIRECTOR'S CUT) A film review by Eric Walker Copyright 1996 Eric Walker more

Natural Born Killers Review
by Carl Miller
Opening scene: Mickey and Mallory Knox arrive at a remote cafe. Mallory turns on the juke box, while Mickey orders some kee lime pie. Already, we see the bizarre editing style which will pervade the movie--short clips of odd camera angles, often in...more

Natural Born Killers Review
by Nizam Ahmed
NATURAL BORN KILLERS was released in Britain in January and is shortly to get its video release. However, considering the hooplah of publicity it received concerning the subject matter, and the new tough stance on violence by the British Board of...more

Natural Born Killers Review
by Ron Lawrence
First of all, Stone is trying to point out exactly what goes on in the media today in regards to how it effects people. The main focus is on violence. The problem is since a movie is a form of media Stone ran into the problem of glorifying...more

Natural Born Killers Review
by Christopher Kankel
NATURAL BORN KILLERS is really a very simple story that, in essence, has already been told in BONNIE & CLYDE with some major variations in emphasis, mood and degree. Both films glamorize "outlaws," in one case bank robbers and killers and in the...more

Natural Born Killers Review
by L. G. Brossa
At a time when the average citizen finds themselves surrounded by real and imagined violence, Oliver Stone and associates have propelled film violence beyond all previous rationalizations. In his most recent film "Natural Born Killers", the public...more

Natural Born Killers Review
by Vijay Ramanujan
The plot: Two psychos ride around killing people. No one's chasing them. No one really seems to care that they exist. Oh, yeah, I nearly forgot. They were both abused as children, but mostly in black and white. A newsman wants to interview them...more

Natural Born Killers Review
by David Gregory Platt
Oliver Stone's NATURAL BORN KILLERS is both less and more than you'd expect. Less in that the violence is not of the disgusting gore variety that it's been trumped up as, and more in that disturbing images and ideas are presented at a quick-cut,...more

Natural Born Killers Review
by Phineas Narco
SCTV, the TV spoof comedy show out of Canada that ran for several years in syndication, once tried to do a parody of Laverne & Shirley and found that they just couldn't do it. The show was already a parody of itself. This might be the case with...more

Natural Born Killers Review
by Raymond Johnston
Dir: Oliver Stone Starring Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr. Tommy Lee Jones, Rodney Dangerfield A Regency Film distributed by Warner Bros. more
Natural Born Killers Review
by ben DOT hoffman AT bcsbbs DOT com (Ben Hoffman)
NBK opens in a cafe cum gas station in an isolated part of a desert. While Mallory Knox (Woody Harrelson) is sitting at the counter ordering, his girl friend, Mickey, (Juliette Lewis) turns on the juke box. Dressed in a tiny bra top and sexy...more
Natural Born Killers Review
by Jon A. Webb
NATURAL BORN KILLERS is being billed as the most violent thing you've ever seen, the most shocking of the Oliver Stone films, etc., but I didn't find it so. Perhaps I'm just becoming jaded, but I found Stone's editing technique, in which no shot is...more
Natural Born Killers Review
by Michael J. Legeros
Directed by Oliver Stone Written by David Veloz, Richard Rutowski, and Oliver Stone from a story by Quentin Tarantino Cast Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr., Tommy Lee Jones, Tom Sizemore, Rodney Dangerfield MPAA Rating...more
Natural Born Killers Review
by berardinelli,james
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr., Tommy Lee Jones, Tom Sizemore Director: Oliver Stone Producers: Jane Hamsher, Don Murphy, and Clayton Townsend Screenplay: David Veloz, Richard Rutowski, and Oliver Stone based...more
Natural Born Killers Review
by Scott Renshaw
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr., Tom Sizemore, Tommy Lee Jones. Screenplay: David Veloz, Richard Rutowski and Oliver Stone. Director: Oliver Stone. Reviewed by Scott Renshaw. more
Natural Born Killers Review
by David Eschatfische
It's the 45-degree camera angles. If you get even slightly seasick, you probably won't make it 10 minutes into the dizzying camera work, the jump cuts, the different film stocks, the discrete stereo effects, the endless back-projecting and the color...more
Natural Born Killers Review
by Jeffrey Graebner
No matter what you think of the content of his films, it is hard to deny Oliver Stone is one of the most innovative mainstream filmmakers in Hollywood. Few directors are as consistently willing to take major chances. With NATURAL BORN KILLERS, he...more
Natural Born Killers Review
by dnf AT nauvax DOT ucc DOT nau DOT edu
I just came back from seeing this film, and must say that I hated it, then I loved it and found it absolutely brilliant! But I think most people will not like it since it's not at all main-stream. more