Review of Natural Born Killers (1994) by Compi24 — 05 Feb 2019

There's a reason why Quentin Tarantino himself hates this movie. Clearly, this is an idea that only he understood and was capable of bringing to life. The Oliver Stone version that we ended up getting is so smarmily obtuse, so philosophically ill-conceived, so baselessly sadistic, and so intellectually backwards that it brought my blood, bile, and piss to a virtual boil.

This is smirkingly uneducated and abject schlock, masquerading under the age-old, paper thin guise that we've come to know as the pre-2010's version of "it was just a prank, bro" - satire. Dear God, what an absolute cop out.

Notwithstanding the fact that this movie is almost impossible to look at, it's ugly in nearly every other way, ultimately going on to inspire the kinds of acts of violence it was so purportedly dead-set on critiquing.

**** this movie. **** it and the nuance-lacking, childishly nihilistic, insultingly high horse that it glided in on in the ass.