Natural Born Killers

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Natural Born Killers

R

1994

1h 59m

Crime

Drama

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Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis are two young, attractive serial killers who become tabloid-TV darlings, thanks to a sensationalistic press led by Robert Downey Jr. The press reports the pair as they go on a 52 people killing spree. A controversial look at the way the media portrays criminals.

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Critics Consensus

Natural Born Killers explodes off the screen with style, but its satire is too blunt to offer any fresh insight into celebrity or crime -- pummeling the audience with depravity until the effect becomes deadening.

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Nigel Andrews

Financial Times

02/13/2024

Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers is a passionately mad, frequently bad, passably interesting, probably unmissable movie.

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Geoff Brown

The Times (UK)

02/12/2024

In Stone's last virtuoso display piece, JFK, the technical fireworks served a firm dramatic purpose. Here they get horribly out of hand. The flimsy, derivative storyline becomes almost obliterated.

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Alexander Walker

London Evening Standard

01/17/2024

Stone's talent works well on the eye, seldom on the brain. There's no coherent argument to follow in his film; nothing lasts long lest viewers' attention span parts company with the excitement under the strain of having to follow a thesis.

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John Powers

Vogue

02/13/2024

A big, dazzling, monstrously violent comedy that is probably the most extreme movie ever made in Hollywood. Psychedelic and assaultive, it's like a fever dream snatched from the skull of Charles Manson.

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Philip French

Observer (UK)

02/12/2024

The intent is manifestly satirical, though the result is lumbering and mirthless.

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

11/06/2023

B

It's Stone's sordid but well-executed action pic message film about how an ill-informed society glorifies repulsive violent figures and makes them heroes.

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Trevor O.

@RT94472806 Jun 24

Oliver Stone at his best. Woody Harrelson at his best. Juliette Lewis at her best. This film is insane and wild. A story by Tarantino which is just insanity personified on screen. A ride not soon forgotten and one of my personal Tarantino favorites. The cast is insane as well. Rodney Dangerfield. RDJ. Tom Sizemore. Tommy Lee Jones. Jared Harris has a role in it. Its wild and fun and wild some more!

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Murky S

@MarvinS Jun 1

It turns out that the constant use of confusing effects, perspectives and the like doesn’t automatically contribute to the storytelling; rather, it comes across as though a budding film student has been letting their "creative" side run wild. Yet these over-the-top creative devices are only there to mask the fact that the story isn’t being told properly.

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Amy H

@RT41598773 May 25

Natural Born Killers is a fantastic movie that really shows how American media glorifies violence. Honestly, it feels just as relevant today as it did in the 90s. Juliette Lewis and Woody Harrelson are incredible together. I wish they had done more intense and thought provoking roles like this. Robert Downey Jr. is perfect in it, and Tommy Lee Jones plays exactly the kind of loud, ridiculous character the movie needed. Part of me would still love to see Quentin Tarantino remake it in his original vision, but I still love what Oliver Stone created.

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Squirt R.

@Squirt_Reynolds May 16

Peak "white people shit" movie

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Lillian M.

@LilNostromo Mar 26

Not for the faint of heart, its an extremely dark comedic romance. However it's very well written and very very dramatic.

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Ian R

@RT23899272 Mar 15

This movie made no sense. Lots of blood but for no dramatic purpose. The fact that Oliver Stone directed it just makes it all the worse. Of course Tarantino had a hand in it. Juliette Lewis made the film tolerable.

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Synopsis

Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis are two young, attractive serial killers who become tabloid-TV darlings, thanks to a sensationalistic press led by Robert Downey Jr. The press reports the pair as they go on a 52 people killing spree. A controversial look at the way the media portrays criminals.

Director: Oliver Stone
Producer: Jane Hamsher, Don Murphy, Clayton Townsend
Screenwriter: Quentin Tarantino, David Veloz, Richard Rutowski, Oliver Stone
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co: New Regency Pictures, Ixtlan Corporation, Alcor Films, Warner Brothers, Warner Bros. Pictures, J D Productions, Regency Enterprises
Rating: R (Graphic Carnage|Extreme Violence|Sexuality|Shocking Images|Strong Language)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 26, 1994, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): May 8, 2015
Runtime: 1h 59m
Sound Mix: Dolby SR, DTS, Stereo, Surround, Dolby A, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)