Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

lperri-21383 While I like Oliver Stone theme of the movie "society's view of murderers" I can barely even tell you what the movies about or have any words for it. Woody harelson is such a great actor but that's basically all this movie has. I was so thankful when this movie ended. Would not recommend or watch. And yes I registered my email just to write this lol

Rickting Oliver Stone's sometimes funny, sometimes terrifying but always compelling satire of the mass media's obsession with violence tells the story of a couple going on a cross country killing spree. Natural Born Killers is incredibly over the top, it's loud, it's nasty and it's in your face brutal. This is balanced with the humour in parts, but more importantly the characters are developed and the film even makes you care about the murderers. Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis and Robert Downey Jr. all give terrific performances, and the frenzied, psychedelic and mesmerizing direction is hugely effective. The best thing about NBK is that it doesn't act like most films of its type. Most films like this go down the route of being highly difficult to watch, but this is disturbing because of the highly intelligent way in which it manipulates viewers' emotions, and by the end I was left feeling very unsettled. Despite this, it's a highly enjoyable and enormously energetic movie much of the time, and it never ceases to be fascinating and provoke thought. 9/10

dougdoepke I've nothing against experimental movie-making. But here technique overwhelms everything else, leaving us with cinematic chaos and maybe a headache. All the rapid- fire jump cuts, color changes, and camera angles add up to an anti-movie mess. It looks like somebody's self-indulgence run wild. To me technique should enhance story, not overwhelm it. Or, in some cases, it might get us to see a familiar theme in a new way. But since there's no real story here, just a sequence of chaotic events, there's ironically no real conflict, just a two-hour waste of film and viewer attention. To be fair, I guess there is a message, something about the media creating a faux reality that sucks people into its seductive realm. That's certainly a worthy, if not novel, theme, especially in our fraught day and age. But unfortunately this movie mess overwhelms the idea without either enhancing it or seeing it in a new way. Too bad.(In passing—Most folks think of Mallory and Mickey as modern day Bonnie and Clyde. Nevertheless, B&C's main purpose was robbing banks, not killing people, a-la M&M. To me, the apt comparison is with the less well-known, teenagers Charlie Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate. After killing her parents and a baby, their murder spree spread across Nebraska and Wyoming in 1958, and appears motivated by little more than a perverted joy of killing, a-la M&M!)

mikelepost Watched this movie back in 1994 when it was released (and I was 18 or so) and again just recently when it ran on IFC. At the time of its release I thought NBK was "meh." Now with the benefit of 20 years of hindsight I think it's a bit of a disaster.There are several problems with NBK but the biggest issue is that it's a total failure as satire. I get the sense that Oliver Stone intended to satirize the media's infatuation with and exploitation of true crime stories and serial killers. This would be fine if Stone himself didn't completely romanticize and even mythologize Mickey and Mallory, the young killer protagonists of this film.I kept waiting for Stone to contrast the ugliness of their crimes with the spectacular way they are presented by the media. No such luck. Instead, all of their victims are shown to be disgusting human beings who deserve their fate. The highly stylized way the violence is meted out adds to the sense that we're supposed to be rooting for these two murderers and to view them as the victims of the film.In a nutshell, Stone is guilty of the same sensationalism he pretends to condemn in this film. The tone is all wrong and we the audience are never sure whose side we're supposed to be on or why.Aside from this huge creative miscalculation, the movie is wildly overedited and constantly shifting from black and white to color to odd angles etc. This is mostly annoying and didn't add anything to the film. The main story is also totally clichéd and the film doesn't even work on the level of satisfying exploitation, featuring far less violence or sexuality than I expected.Overall just plain bad.