Natural Born Killers

1994 Directed by Oliver Stone

The media made them superstars

Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

Woody Harrelson Juliette Lewis Robert Downey Jr. Tommy Lee Jones Tom Sizemore Rodney Dangerfield Edie McClurg Jared Harris Russell Means Maria Pitillo Sean Stone Everett Quinton O-Lan Jones Pruitt Taylor Vince Steven Wright Lanny Flaherty Richard Lineback Kirk Baltz Ed White Terrylene Josh Richman Melinda Renna Dale Dye Edward Conna Evan Handler Matthew Faber Jamie Harrold Saemi Nakamura Keiko Seiko Show All…

Alternative Titles

Natural Born Killers - DC, Assassinos por Natureza, Asesinos Natos, Gennimenoi dolofonoi, Asesinos por naturaleza, Urodzeni mordercy, Прирожденные убийцы, 閃靈殺手, Assassini Nati - Natural Born Killers, Natural Born Killers (Director's Cut)

drama crime thriller

119 mins More details at IMDb TMDb Report this film

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Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★

This is the kind of thing where if the director ever asked me what I thought of it, I'd stare blankly for a few seconds before saying "y'know, it was interesting" in a high-pitched voice.
Review by Hollie Horror 21

I am having trouble coming up with a proper rating when it comes to this revisit of Natural Born Killers. I have a fairly long history with the movie. At 12 years old I was allowed to watch almost any movie I wanted but because NBK received a lot of media attention for this "controversial" film my Mom put her foot down this one time and said that I was not allowed to watch Natural Born Killers despite my best attempts at being charming or whiny. Not long after.. my older sister wanted to have a party while our parents were away and I decided it was the perfect time for a little blackmail. My silence cost one video rental…
Review by brat pitt ★★★½ 4

"Steve Buscemi and Tim Roth were both offered the role of Wayne Gale and turned it down. Jane Hamsher claims in her book about the movie that they did so because Quentin Tarantino told them he would never cast either of them in any of his movies again if they took the role."
this is my 2nd favorite imdb trivia fact of all time because steve & tim are so loyal to their pal QT & i love them!!! my 1st favorite imdb trivia fact is the one about harrison ford shitting his pants during filming for raiders
Review by Harry Ridgway ★★★★½ 8

At a glance, Natural Born Killers has the potential to mislead. What seems like a full-blooded thriller packed with gratuitous brutality is in fact more profound; more intelligent than what its exterior and hateful critics may imply. It's personality is satirical, predominantly lampooning the media for their embracement of serial killers and near veneration of the activities they conduct - all done for the sake of ratings. Oliver Stone is clearly a staunch combatant of such behaviour and as we all know, if Oliver Stone disagrees with something, it's almost guaranteed he'll make a film to argue his perspective. Some may call him his work propaganda, but you can't deny his skill and innovation.
Mickey and Mallory are not individual…
Review by matt lynch ★★★★½ 3

"I've had a strong opinion about the psychopathic fringe that thrives today in America's fast food culture."
i kept thinking about what this movie would look like today given media saturation now vs. then and stuff like outrage twitter, but that's a total trap because the only way this functions is if it's thoroughly divorced from context or "timeliness". Stone's coke-and-'shrooms-fueled "Who's really in the prison?" swipe at satire is so utterly sanctimonious and trite that for at least half a second it actually threatens to become unfunny, even if the scene where Russell Means sees the word "demon" written on Harrelson's chest couldn't possibly be anything but a joke. whatever this is mad at, it's not around anymore, not…
Review by Will ★★★ 4

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Mass murdering, blood rushing and damn right weird, but at the end of the day, a love story. Such an incredibly strange and experimental film. It has all types of styles. Which personally, I’m not a huge fan of. I did find it a bit annoying sometimes. It almost felt like a student film for an alternative project.
It’s clearly a modern approach to a Bonnie and Clyde story but somehow it was made more twisted. Woody Harrelson was brilliant, along with Robert Downey Jr and Juliette Lewis. Tommy Lee Jones is crazy as well. I’m pretty torn with this. There were multiple times where I lost all interest but there were multiple moments that I really liked.
Review by Griffin ★★★½ 2

Two baddies get up to no good in this extremely violent thriller. Sitcom scene and prison riot were awesome, the rest was aight.
Review by Robert Berlin ★★★½

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I can never get over how weird it is to see Woody Harrelson playing an evil or unhinged character. To me he will always be Woody from Cheers, just a hopelessly naive country boy.
Two youngsters (Mickey and Mallory, played by Woody Harrellson and Juliette Lewis) with some violently abusive parents (one of which is played by a very angry Rodney Dangerfield) find each other and quickly fall in love. They soon escape together and go across America on a violent murder frenzy that soon turns them into the next big teenage idols. Things do not get any…
Review by Vishwas Verma ★★★★

A story of a psychopath murderer couple in the very crazy way. Oliver Stone's storytelling is unique (I wanted to say in a very Sin City type but this came first).
Woody Harrelson (one of my favourite actors) played Mickey and Juliette Lewis as Mallory are insane psychopath killers as crazy as Joker and Harley. Both were outstanding in their roles. Robert Downey Jr. as Wayne Gale surprised me with his acting, especially in the last scene.
Writing is very good and so is the direction, sufi score was brilliant. Very unique film.
Review by Naughty aka Juli Norwood ★★★★★

Oliver Stone's in your face crime drama designed to shock and titillate as it drives home its message with a sledgehammer regarding the glorification of violence by the media!
A film that was ahead of its time and is even MORE relevant today than it was back in 1994!
Review by Larry ★★★½ 12

I imagine most people had the same reaction I did after watching the first half hour of Natural Born Killers. I imagine the same 6 words came out of many people's mouths. What. The. Fuck. Am. I. Watching.
This zany bloodbath of a movie was penned by none other than Quentin Tarantino and directed by Oliver Stone. The film is like a shotgun blast of weird visuals, triply editing, and over the top violence. The gimmick is fun at first. It's like being taken through a Charles Manson funhouse ride. But it frankly starts to grow thinner and thinner as the films goes on. I found that the fractured and crazy storytelling method actually became a distraction more than anything.…
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Nobody after watching this:
Two young boys in Colorado, 1999: it’s free real estate!

Recent reviews

Review by Devintyler331 ★★★★★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Found this in my phone from my first semester of college.
Natural Born Killers Sequence Analysis
Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers is a psychedelic, dramatic thriller that focuses on the contrasts of right vs. wrong as well as life and death using unique visual and sound elements. Stone’s unique use of camera angles, alternated color filters, inserted animations, and style changes gives the film its psychedelic sentiment and makes it distinct from any other movie. The soundtrack and dialogue both add to this by giving the film an overall crazed and eerie tone. The movie made me feel that it was almost justifying psychotic behavior and presented deeper connections to me about the ideas of right vs. wrong and life…
Review by Tobey ★★★★

This entire film and every character in it is absolutely insane. I love it.
The stylisation for in my nerves a few times, I found it really irritating, obnoxious and exhausting through the first half hour or so but after that I started to love it.
It's so bizarre and off the wall and for whatever reason that worked for me with this particular film. With that being said I can totally see why someone could hate this film, it certainly isn't for everyone but it's definitely for me.
So unique and absurd.
Review by interstellar42 ★★★½

I imagine this is what it's like to have a bad trip? Very strange, but I kinda liked it.
And hey! I didn't know RDJ played an Aussie before Tropic Thunder!
Review by Ron Rucker ★★

“It's fate, you know. Nobody can stop fate, nobody can.”
Oliver Stone’s serial-killer film is his most kaleidoscopically strange; a savage, of-the-moment takedown of the mass media’s fascination with true-life killers - contextualizing it amidst O.J. Simpson, the Menendez Brothers, and the serial killer trading cards popular at the time doesn’t make ‘Natural Born Killers’ any less bonkers. Indeed, it should have been a revelatory experience, especially when you factor in its A-list cast (including Robert Downey Jr., who for some reason showed off an Australian accent) and its bold, over-cranked, highly processed visual experimentation. But as it turned out, Stone was so hyped up on the film’s oversized too-much-ness that he forgot to, you know, tell a story.
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Review by Débora Nunes ★★★½

I was between giving 3.5 or 4.5, I choose 3.5 because even though I enjoyed watch, sometimes it became too tacky or exaggerated in the bad way, or the critiques kinda felt like “we live in a society, and I had trauma ThATs wHY iM BaD 😈” but other moments of the movie were so good, artsy, camp and humorous that make it up for the times that the movie flawed, in conclusion it’s a experience to be lived
Review by jay foley ½

this gave me a headache . y’all like this ?? how ?
Review by Yudistira ★★★½

Bangsat trippy bener nih film
Review by sufjanwasrobbed

Wild at Heart + Kenneth Anger lighting + Blood
Review by will suede ★

more like Natural Born Shillers
Review by DucTK ★★½

Wish Tarantino had directed it.
Review by Jed Wells ★★★★

W H A T T H E F U C K
Review by Erik ★½

Sooooo.... ummm this is the movie that inspired a lot of kids in the 90s to do copy cat crimes and love hyper violence... Yeah this is both Robert Downey Jr’s and Woody Harrelson’s worst film. The merch promoting the film was cool though.