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Article: Natural Born Killers.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- September 26, 1994
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How lamentable by contrast is Oliver Stone's latest and most horrible film, Natural Born Killers, from a story by another current hotshot, Quentin Tarantino. Mr. Stone's narcissism and megalomania, like badly driven horses, run away with this gross, pretentious, and ultimately senseless movie. Purporting to show how crime appeals to the American public, and how the media exploit it for their self-promotion and the public's cretinization, it is manifestly far too enamored of what it pretends to satirize, even if it knew how to do it.
Ostensibly, it is the story of Mickey and Mallory Knox, a parricidal and serial-killing young couple on an odyssey of manic ...