It's not rare that a bad film becomes a hit at the box office because of a popular director. That a downright awful film gets a cult following because of it's director (or screenwriter), however, is more rare. What made so many people crazy about this film, apart from loyalty to "annoy-the-establishment" Oliver Stone is beyond me. It's not funny. At all. In fact, the parts that were supposed to be "funny" made me even more angry than the "provoking" parts of his other movies (the deleted scene with the courtroom was so sadistic it made me want to see Stone and Tarrantino's heads on plates - and i usually like Tarrantino's films). It's not suspenseful either, since you're hoping the main characters get killed through the entire movie. Finally it's not original -it's been done a million times before. So basically i just felt sick and angry. And who goes to the movies to get angry and sick? Stone is trying to rant about the hypocrisy of modern media while making a total gorefest for millions of moviegoers to see. Now who's hypocritical? Stone should stay away from satire and stick with the serious stuff - it's provoking enough.
Review of Natural Born Killers
