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Oliver Stone would like to have the last word on America's media culture of voyeurism and violence, but whatever he's trying to say in this grisly, unconventional movie comes across terribly garbled. Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis play traveling serial killers who become television celebrities when a Geraldo-like personality (Robert Downey Jr.) turns their madness into the biggest story in the country. Stone extensively rewrote an original script by Quentin Tarantino, and he employs a mosaic of different film stocks, video, and pop pastiches to create a sense of blurred lines between visual phenomena. (The background on Lewis's character's life as an abused child, for instance, is presented as a sitcom starring Rodney Dangerfield.) But the result of these experiments is a pompous, even amateurish effort at grasping the reins of a real-life national debate. One almost wants to tell Stone to sit down and raise his hand next time if he thinks he has something to say. The controversial director would like Natural Born Killers to be nothing less than a monumental achievement, but it's one of the emptier entries in his filmography. --Tom Keogh
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| title: |
Natural Born Killers |
| theatricalDate: |
26-08-1994 |
| stars: |
Woody Harrelson
Juliette Lewis
Tom Sizemore
Rodney Dangerfield
Everett Quinton
Pruitt Taylor Vince
Jared Harris
Edie McClurg
Russell Means
Lanny Flaherty
O-Lan Jones
Robert Downey Jr.
Richard Lineback
Kirk Baltz
Ed White
Terrylene
Maria Pitillo
Josh Richman
Sean Stone
Melinda Renna |
| purchase date: |
07-09-2006 |
| publisher: |
Lions Gate |
| published: |
25-01-2000 |
| price: |
$9.98 |
| net Rating: |
3.5 |
| MPAA Rating: |
Unrated |
| minutes: |
182 |
| last lookup time: |
179362720 |
| genre: |
Murder & Mayhem
Downey Jr., Robert
Prison
Love Story
4-for-3 Action & Adventure
4-for-3 Drama
4-for-3 All DVDs |
| fullTitle: |
Natural Born Killers |
| features: |
Closed-captioned
Color
Director's Cut
Dolby
Letterboxed
Widescreen
NTSC
1.85:1 |
| director: |
Oliver Stone |
| currentValue: |
$2.99 |
| created: |
179362720 |
| country: |
us |
| aspect: |
DVD |
| asin: |
B00003BDXG
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