Day 79 Natural Born Killers [1994]
Screenplay Quentin Tarantino, Oliver
Stone, Richard Rutowski & David Veloz
Director Oliver
Stone
Cinematography Robert
Richardson
Leads Woody Harrelson,
Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr., Tommy Lee Jones, Tom Sizemore
Production Regency Enterprises
IMDb 7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes 47%
I’m not sure what to make of this one. At all. I
will definitely have to watch it again. I was expecting another great Tarantino
script, what I got instead was Tarantino on PCP. It was somewhere between From
Dusk Till Dawn (Day 40) and True Romance (Day 77). Another couple on a crime spree,
this time Mickey (Harrelson) and Mallory (Lewis) murdering everyone they came
across, apart from the one witness per crime scene they leave behind so everyone
knows who’s done it. To be fair I think Tarantino wrote the original, which was
then heavily edited by Stone, Veloz and Rutowski. Something tells me this film
would have been better without their influence. But then again it may have been
too similar to the aforementioned films if it hadn’t been edited. Originally,
Clarence from True Romance was supposed to be writing this film as part
of that film, but they cut it out and decided to make this film separately. It’s
a bloodbath, visceral as hell. I can barely remember the plot as there was so
much to take in visually. It’s making reviewing it pretty hard. The acting was
frantic, Downey Jr. in a role I haven’t seen too often so I enjoyed that. Look.
I’m going to have to level with you and say that this is a double watcher. I
just can’t make my mind up as to whether I liked it. It sits perfectly on the
fence. I’ll watch it again one day. I suppose that it must be good if I’m happy
to watch it twice…
Acting 3
/ 4
Writing 3
/ 4
Cinematography 3
/ 4
Music 2
/ 4
HWF
rating 2.5 / 4