Natural Born Killers (1994)
I still recall seeing this when it finally hit our cinema screens after it's mere mention baited the Daily Mail and the rest of the tabloids for what seemed like months. My overriding memory of the film was a mish mash of visual styles, film stock and especially cool music.
Watching it again for the nth time the film itself is really just a lovers / killers on the run movie as in Badlands or even Thelma & Louise. Director Oliver Stone brings out a career best performance from Juliette Lewis and other great ones from Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Downey Jr.
Yes the film as mentioned is over the top in it's changes of film stock and it can grate a little even to the point of being headache inducing if you're not in the mood. However, overall the film is a lot of violent fun, with highly quotable dialogue and some excellent set pieces elevated by songs from Trent Reznor's record collection, - the prison riot thrashing it out to Lard's Forkboy is a brilliant example - and one where it's director really does control all the shots, whilst satirizing the media's raising of murderers to what seems like celebrity status.
One of the must see films from the 90's.
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