fabinhu_ritter This movie try to be exciting bur it isn't. It is boring and just "free violence" without any sense or logic. The criticism of media is just empty. Nothing is profound or have any reason to happen. Is just waste time. I don't know how this movie wins any award because to me is one of the most trash and bizarre that I ever seen.

Realrockerhalloween Natural born killers was a master piece created by Oliver Stone to showcase America's fascination with violence using surreal imagery that rips right into the mind of a serial killer.Mickey and Mallory Knox are on the lamb after a string of cross country murder sprees, home invasions and rape while the news turns them into a house hold name.During the days of pro-wresting being the number one entertainment in The world and Jerry Springer's high Nielsen ratings it was only matter of time before as film maker made a parody of our dark desires to see blood, guts and dead bodies galore and sexualize it. Even during the film we see news paper headlines referring to them as "Sex on the run" and an investigator itching to sleep with Mrs. Knox.The movie feels even more relevant today then back in 1993. I remember a few years ago Jodi Auras was in the news for killing her boyfriend and going into her sexual life to add the glamour of a sick twisted story.The use of commercials throughout make it seen that we come so entrenched and brainwashed by television that we're dead already. Those who break free to actually make a difference are the chosen ones. Such powerful messages for the MTV generation.Other messages are more stuble like corruption exists everywhere and where you may expect it could actually be a place of redemption.In some ways the situation is played for laughs like the sitcom detailing Mallory's past and the laugh track to ease tension.I even felt for some of the characters which only a brilliant director is capable of doing in a film like this.Its a heavy film. Some may see it as another violent film instead of seeking the real messages the script writers were trying to get across.

tomgould749 Supreme this film is as harrowing as it is visually stunning. Harrelson and Lewis portray serial killers with an almost perfect level of subtle menace that makes you almost want to route for them. The sheer magnitude of the piece is electric and Tarantino and Stone weave together a piece of artwork that should be watched and respected by any die hard movie fan. Although it has been dismissed by some as somewhat repetitive I would be inclined to argue that any film that deals with this topic needs to be reminded of the fact that in the evil world that these people inhabit repetition comes with the territory. It is the way that it is delivered though that makes it stand out.

mistoppi I rented the director's cut and I'm trying to figure out what's the difference between the cuts, apart from being four minutes longer. Anyway, since I have only seen this cut, so I'll just have to go with this one. I was mostly interested in this film because of the original script written by Tarantino. Apparently the original however was heavily edited by Veloz, Rutowski and Stone, so I don't know what parts of Tarantino are actually left. I'd really like to read the original script, but I don't know if that's even possible.My dad actually gave me a warning of this film. He said it was extremely heavy and distressing. It definitely is, and during some parts of the film it's done marvellously. The beginning of the film is a good example. The dialogue in that is pretty regular, it could be the beginning of any movie. The dialogue is something we could hear everyday, that's not what makes it distressing. That's done with the music. I've never liked Leonard Cohen's music, but it definitely spices up movies by making scenes extra creepy. I've had the soundtrack of this movie for a while, and most of the songs sounded extremely good, but when I saw the actual film I was slightly disappointed. Apart from few, like Leonard Cohen in the beginning, many of the tracks are easy to ignore, as they give nothing to the actual story. They just are playing in the background. If Tarantino had got to direct the movie his way, the soundtrack would've been so much better.Also the cinematography makes the film unnerving. Fast shots, camera is tilted, some shots are in black and white... Let alone all the small symbolic things in between what's actually happening. The writing could be almost anything, cinematography like that does everything else. I've seen the same kind of visual side in Slipstream (2007). That movie was complicated anyway, so the symbolic fast shots of something random suited the film. The plot of Natural Born Killers isn't complicated. All that symbolism gets lost when the film isn't watched by someone who actually knows about symbols. Everyday watchers won't have time to analyse what a snake here and there means. If Oliver Stone didn't mean this movie to be watched by someone who doesn't want to analyse every little detail as an important symbol, he's pretentious. The way this film was shot is good: tilted shots, fast shots, black and white shots, the colours... Those work. But like getting random shots of something isn't always that necessary. It's kind of like Stone wanted this film to be way more artistic than this plot could be. The story is artistic in the way how it can be analysed, but that's it. There's no need to make it an art film. I wanted to like this movie, but it's hard. While it had everything I usually like in films, it felt too pretentious and overtly complicated. I was expecting something so much simpler and therefore so much better. And that's the reason why I'd want to see what Tarantino originally had. He's an excellent writer, and I feel like his original story was made into something needlessly weird. When you think about it, Natural Born Killers is a good movie, if you judge it like critics do and all that. In technical sense it's excellent and all that, but it's annoying to watch. Natural Born Killers isn't something you can just throw into the DVD-player and watch it when you have nothing better to do, you have to really, really watch it, and that might ruin a film a little. If it's on TV, you can't just start in the middle if you missed the beginning and so on. While I appreciate what this film is, I can't say I actually like it.