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Natural Born Killers
1994
Oliver Stone's over-the-top satire on America's worshipful fascination with tabloid criminals stars Woody Harrelson as Mickey Knox and Juliette Lewis as girlfriend-wife Mallory Wilson. Commencing with the dual murder of Mallory's sexually abusive father (Rodney Dangerfield) and grossly negligent mother (Edie McClurg), the .. Read more
| Starring | Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr, Tommy Lee Jones |
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| Director | Oliver Stone |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
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Natural Born Killers
Oliver Stone's over-the-top satire on America's worshipful fascination with tabloid criminals stars Woody Harrelson as Mickey Knox and Juliette Lewis as girlfriend-wife Mallory Wilson. Commencing with the dual murder of Mallory's sexually abusive father (Rodney Dangerfield) and grossly negligent mother (Edie McClurg), the anomic couple take off on a three-week killing spree across the country, telling everyone who they are so that they get the credit for their crimes. The media are immediately enthralled with the couple, especially Wayne Gale (Robert Downey Jr.), the bloodthirsty host of a tabloid TV show who follows their every move. By the time they're finally arrested, they've become such huge media stars that the cops treat them more like celebrities than criminals. Even the maniacal limelight-hogging warden of the Batongaville State Prison, Dwight McClusky (Tommy Lee Jones), is in awe. Stone pulls out all the stops in the prison riot, as the unwitting Gale becomes an unwilling participant in his own broadcast of the event. Again the director switches from film to video, from color to black and white, from sitcom parody to newsreel parody, and from one film stock to another, hoping to jar the audience out of its complacency with visual hyperbole.
| Starring | Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr, Tommy Lee Jones, Rodney Dangerfield, Tom Sizemore, Balthazar Getty |
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| Director | Oliver Stone |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 54 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 54 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
| Language | English |
| Dubbed | French, Italian |
| Hearing-impaired | English, Italian |
| Subtitles | Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish |
| Released | DVD: 12 Nov 2001 Blu-ray: 28 Jul 2008 Production year: 1994 |
| Format | DVD |
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Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis are serial killers turned into folk heroes by media excesses in this striking movie that was criticised by original story author Quentin Tarantino after it was largely rewritten by director Oliver Stone and others. Ambitious, unrelenting and inventive, Stone's controversial landmark movie excites the intellect while bludgeoning the senses. It blends naturalistic violence with stylised visuals and commandeers every available cinematic trick, plus the TV sitcom format, to put across its searing message. Stone utilises a dazzling range of technique to underscore the media's obsession with violent crime, and delivers one of the most arrestingly provocative additions to the debate since A Clockwork Orange. Love it or hate it, this all-out image assault is a unique if disturbing experience.
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An over-the-top assault on an audience's sensibilities, making its points with a heavy hand and a brutally jokey style, utilizing every movie- and video-making style in its deadly assault through a dislocating barrage of images. The message of all this ma
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15 out of 15 people found this review helpful
A classic, Juliette Lewis is briliant as Malory.
I cant believe the reviews Ive read on this film! Natural Born Killers is a brilliant postmodern assaults on postmoderism itsself.
The camera angles and changes in medium are there for that very reason. Its a violent yet artistic attack on the senses. The narrative isnt supposed to be believable, its a hightened super reallity where the media is god and nothing is real.
This is also reflected outside the narrative by cutting disturbing scenes with the 'polarbear coco cola' advert. Its telling us a lot more about ourselves and how we view violence in the media than you might first realise.
Open your eyes and watch it again, if not then stick to the hollywood melodramas. -
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
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A victim of his own message
This film satirises the way tabloid type media journalism feeds off violent crime and serves it up for public consumption. In the interests of this project Stone throws just about every cinema style and technique up onto the screen. The result bludgeons the senses and never really engages the heart or the mind. Any satirical punch is tainted by the way Stone dresses up his 'moral' point in exploitation clothes. A case of the messenger being corrupted by his own message?
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Natural Born Killers
Oliver Stone's over-the-top satire on America's worshipful fascination with tabloid criminals stars Woody Harrelson as Mickey Knox and Juliette Lewis as girlfriend-wife Mallory Wilson. Commencing with the dual murder of Mallory's sexually abusive father (Rodney Dangerfield) and grossly negligent ...
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