Review of Natural Born Killers (1994) by Arandomguy7896 — 08 May 2020

Natural Born Killers is quite the conundrum. While you can appreciate the innovative visuals and excellent acting. You can find yourself criticizing the failed satire it relies on, and it's excellent visuals becoming a distraction, taking you out of the movie.

That is a very big problem because, despite the obvious exaggerations, Natural Born Killer is supposed to feel real. The film was made to address a real problem but if it feels too unreal, the point of the film falls flat.

This may be due too a director doing everything he thinks is a good idea, with no one telling him to cool it down. Another big problem is the hypocrisy in the movie, It tries to condemn our obsession with violence and murderers.

While reveling in the violence and murderers it depicts on screen. I have no problem with violence and anti-heroes in movies, but if you condemn that while showing it, It defeats the point. There are good things in the movie, the great acting by Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Tommy Lee Jones, and Robert Downey Jr.

all in Oscar-worthy performances. The great visuals, while not being too distracting, you can appreciate. Ambition can always be appreciated. But much like Stay (2005), it has ambition and good intentions, but its intellectual ambitions are out of its grasp.