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Natural Born Killers

1994

Oliver Stone

Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Rodney Dangerfield ...

6.6

48,531

Thriller. Action. Romance Commencing with the dual murder of Mallorys sexually abusive father (Rodney Dangerfield) and grossly negligent mother (Edie McClurg), the anomic couple (Woody Harrison & Juliette Lewis) 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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Stone has never been a director known for understatement or subtlety. He'll do anything to get his effect, and that's one of the things I value about him (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"Truly awful (...) [A] delirious, monotonous feature-length music video"	NEG
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"The film has a contemporary relevance that no one can miss. It also happens to be Oliver Stone’s most exciting work to date strictly from a filmmaking point of view."	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"For all its surface passions, 'Natural Born Killers' never digs deep enough to touch the madness of such events, or even to send them up in any surprising way."	NEU
United Kingdom	Clark Collis Empire	"Where 'NBK' succeeds is in being the kind of risk-taking, all-out audio-visual experience that comes along all too rarely, with Stone constructing a frighteningly recognisable vision of America (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Incoherent as drama or satire, this surreal splatterfest soars on its visual audacity (...) 'Killers' is a sensory assault"	NEU
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"Feverish, psychedelic, insanely bloody, the movie is unlike anything you’ve seen before (...) The final section of 'Natural Born Killers' is the most powerfully audacious filmmaking of Stone’s career"	POS
United States	Hal Hinson The Washington Post	"Stone isn't an empty sensationalist. He's a moralist, a truth-teller. He wants to illuminate us and set things right (...) The main problem with 'Killers,' though, is that it degenerates into the very thing it criticizes"	NEU
United Kingdom	Geoff Andrew Time Out	"[It] is at once a phenomenon and unremarkable. True, it's technically extraordinary (...) The actors are given no space to build up characters"	NEU
United Kingdom	Alan Jones Radio Times	"Ambitious, unrelenting and inventive, Stone's controversial landmark film excites the intellect while bludgeoning the senses (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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