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Just what I expected

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

I went to this movie with my wife and knew nothing about it... 15 minutes into it I was ready to leave. I wanted my money back. My wife kept saying, "It has to get better." She was wrong. Total waste of time and money!!

I can see just by scrolling through the reviews how this movie has split people right down the middle. There are very few 'neutral' reviews but plenty of 1 and 10 star ratings. It's no surprise though because this movie is truly one of a kind, there's nothing else like it out there and I doubt there every will be. Two hours of non-stop blood and violence was never going to appeal to everyone.'Natural Born Killers' is a bizarre film, practically indescribable. It makes for a fascinating watch, even if you don't like what you're seeing. I can't say that I particularly enjoyed it - I don't think this is the type of movie that you can 'enjoy', but I did like it in the sense that it had me completely hooked to the screen for 2 hours. It's divisive and I can't say I loved it, but I appreciated it for what it was.

Oliver Stone's indictment of the media told through the story of young lovers on the run, serial killers Mickey and Mallory Knox, Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis. Based on an early script by Quentin Tartantino, Tarantino took his name off of the film and instead asked for only a "story" credit. He's been quoted as saying if you love the film, that was Oliver, if you hated the film, that was Oliver, essentially disavowing the film, which I didn't really see why he'd want to distance himself from it at the time, but rewatching the film now, it was a smart move on his part to distance himself from this mess. I was shocked by how poorly this film has aged. It may be a case of it having been imitated so many times since then, both in terms of style and content, that the film has lost it's original impact; much like rewatching the original version of "The Exorcist" (thought that film is still good, it's just not as scary). After my disappointment re-watching this film, I got out my copy of Quentin Tarantino's original script and pretty much all of the moments in this film that do work were straight out of Tarantino's original version; a cool opening credits sequence with crazy rear projections, Robert Downy Jr. as a sensationalistic Geraldo-like TV news reporter, some sharp dialogue from from Tom Sizemore as Seymore Skagnetti and Tommy Lee Jones as Warden Dwight McClusky. When the film drifts into Stone's seeming obsession with Native American mysticism, indulgent mix media visuals (Rob Zombie used this same style to much better effect in his films), and everyone trying to out overact the person next to them ruins what could have been a tough, nihilistic young lovers on the run "Badlands" homage. Where I will give Stone credit is the casting of Rodney Dangerfield as Lewis' dad, in a flashback sequence to Mallory Knox's abusive dysfunctional home life prior to running off with Mickey, presented as a nightmarish sitcom from hell, complete with a laugh track that punctuates societal indifference to domestic atrocities. That was not in Tarantino's script and Rodney is a positively demonic and terrifying version of his usual comic on-screen persona. I'll also give Stone credit for a dynamite soundtrack (or at least for hiring Trent Reznor to produce the soundtrack) which includes Leonard Cohen, L7, Patti Smith, Duane Eddy, NIN, Cowby Junkies, Jane's Addiction, Barry Adamson, Lard, and many more. Downey, Sizemore, and particularly Jones seem to strike the best tone of giving completely over-the-top performances, but doing so without winking at the camera, which I think Stone allowed Harrelson and Lewis to do too often throughout the film. Sure the on- screen media frenzy surrounding Mickey and Mallory and their cult of personality was fed, created, and sustained by the media is Stone's major point of the film, but it makes the characters too much to take. You can catch glimpses of a good film every now and then, buried beneath Stone's sound and fury, but in general this film is a preachy, heavy-handed mess. Do yourself a favor and read Tarantino's original script instead of watching Oliver Stone's indulgent mess.

I was very impressed with Natural Born Killers, the film is praised, there are a lot of people who like the movie, but I found it very weak, I went with good expectations, which were not matched, the cast is the strong point of the movie, Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr, Tommy Lee Jones and so on, are good, Harrelson's chemistry with Juliette Lewis is good, the movie script is cool, but I found it badly, the direction of Oliver Stone that made it one of the Best war movie of all time is Platoon, is weak, which is a shame, because he is a good director, photography is cool, I did not like the way the film is filmed, I found the movie bad style, Natural Born Killers is not bad, more disappointed me a lot. Note 5.7