Natural Born Killers - Director's Cut (1994) ****

Love it or hate it, Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers (1994) is a truly wild and relentless psychedelic-road movie-crime-satire odyssey that demands your attention. I remember well the controversy that surrounded NBK when it was released. The film is chock full of graphic violence, yes, but I had forgotten just how funny it is. 

The style, the sheer amount of filmmaking techniques, the cinematography (thank you, Robert Richardson), and, in particular, the editing (thank you, Hank Corwin) in NBK is out of this world. A lot of what Stone did here Terry Gilliam would do four years later in Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (review). The soundtrack—produced by Trent Reznor—is as eclectic and experimental as the film, and has always been a favorite. The performances are fearless and over the top and I love them. 

Quentin Tarantino famously disowned the picture because of the changes that were made to his original screenplay, but I personally think the blending of his and Stone's styles here is perfect. A mainstream movie like this could never be made anymore. Pure chaos cinema sensory overload.

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