Sep 16, 2014ManMachine rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
(All-time "Most Irritating Movie-Quote Ever") - Mallory to Mickey - "Bad! Bad! Bad! Bad! Bad!"
If nothing else - I'd say that this impotent, white-trash, Romeo & Juliet story certainly earned itself a couple of loud & robust "Bronx Cheers" for its efforts to at least try to say something relevant, but (inevitably) failing miserably to deliver (thanks, of course, to its disease-minded screenwriter, Quentin Tarantino).
With its cynical "Tabloid" mentality, Natural Born Killers (NBK, for short), stands tall as one of the most over-the-top, narrow-minded statements about the insatiable American media-machine (and its on-going love affair with its most sadistic and deranged citizens) that I've ever seen.
If you were to completely strip away the novelty of NBK's often-impressive camera-work, along with its pseudo-psychedelic imagery, then about the only thing you'd be left with would be a truly dismal story about a bunch of despicable characters who aren't even worth the slightest bit of notice.
Featuring a non-stop barrage of "in-your-face" violence & brutality (for the sake of itself), I think that director Oliver Stone clearly missed the mark in the realm of sick & twisted humour.... In NBK, Homicide detectives sniff discarded women's underwear for "evidence" and its serial killers' victims are all looked upon as people who deserved to be murdered.
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Natural Born Killers