Review of Natural Born Killers (1994) by Anthony I — 11 Apr 2015

Natural Born Killers is a film that almost doesn't need to be critiqued. It's already a critique in itself. A critique of how our hypocritical, scummy media at large sensationalizes psychopaths, murderers and serial killers.

Oliver Stone rightfully gives the media a baseball bat to the head, in what I could only describe as "propoganda-murder porn". It's a 2-hour, vicious, ultra-violent montage that not even Sergei Eisenstein could've imagined in his worst nightmares.

It's such an emotionally unshakeable experience, you won't be able to get your mind off of it. I don't know if I should consider Oliver Stone one of the great geniuses in all of pop culture, or a man possessed by the demon he has captured on celluloid.

Be warned, at how brutal this picture is now considering the impact it has had on the impressionable sick-minds it inspired. Hauntingly, this movie accurately predicts and predates some of the worst atrocities in U.

S history (ex. Columbine, Sandy Hook). To this affect, I can't say that what Stone has created amounted to any good at the end of the day.. but perhaps he knew that it wouldn't far better than we all did.

It's no wonder why Quentin Tarentino wanted his name off of the picture. When you think about it, Stone took Tarentino's movement of comic brutality, flung it back in his face, with his own characters and said "checkmate".