Review of Natural Born Killers (1994) by Potarto72 — 21 Dec 2014

I hate this movie. This movie is like a bottle of pure hatred being poured in my eye sockets. This is the second worst movie I've ever seen. I only watched it because I heard Tarantino was involved, and I now know that even that wasn't really true. Tarantino wrote the story, and a certain Oliver Stone pissed all over it, and then plopped it on our appetizer plates, with a big "f**k you!" I haven't seen any of his other movies, but I've heard some of them are really good. That's going to be a tough pill to swallow after seeing this crap.

The concept of our movie is that we have Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis playing the titular killers. They operate like the Manson family, pretty much killing whoever with no rhyme, reason, or repercussions. The movie opens with them slaughtering a bar full of patrons. We immediately notice that the visual style changes radically every single shot. Could there be some reasonable metaphor behind the rapidly changing camera filter? Sure. There probably is. That doesn't excuse the fact that it's absolutely hideous and jarring to look at, and makes me hate what is happening on screen even more, if that's possible.

I didn't finish it, admittedly. I got about 60% through and had to stop. I wanted to throw up. Not because I get squeamish at violence (I don't at all, really), but because this film is senseless, tasteless, and disgusting. The message is supposed to be that the media accidentally promotes and advances violence when they report on it, which is kind of true. But its so poorly communicated -- how teenagers react with glee every time they blow a soccer mom's brains out or run over a cop. This is a completely idiotic film. Nothing works, it's sick, it's cruel, it's completely unneccessary. It's like watching Cannibal Holocaust. Oliver Stone is so blind to his message, he is promoting senseless violence in a movie about senseless violence and how promoting senseless violence leads to more senseless violence, which all leads to more senseless violence. In the end, my only opinion of Mr. Stone is A) He's violent, and B) He's senseless. Blech. Everything about this movie is like a thorn in my brain. Truly one of the worst things ever made by human beings.