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Natural Born Killers” is a really strange film. With the strange actors and bizarre camera movements. It's unforgettable. A journey into the minds of two serial killers. The movie is really good, but I think it could be even better if I was drunk. You might be a little used to everyone acting all weird and psychedelic. But since I'm not old enough to do that yet, I'll just review it as I saw it. Mallory (Juliette Lewis) has a horrible life. Her brother is a little idiot, her father molests her, and her mother does nothing about it. It's horrible. But the movie tries to make him a little funny by making his house look like a sitcom with the audience laughing (the whole movie isn't like that). Then one day a young man named Mickey Knox (Woody Harrelson) shows up at her doorstep delivering fifty pounds of meat. They fall in love instantly. This is where the funky stuff starts. Mickey and Mallory brutally beat and drown his father and burn his mother alive. After which they begin a long series of murders, killing more than fifty people, they are finally caught by one of the best cops in America: Seymour Scagnetti (Tom Sizemore). Mickey and Mallory have been separated for a year. Both locked in separate cells in a prison run by McClusky (Tommy Lee Jones). McClusky instructed Scagnetti to transport Mickey and Mallory to another location to perform a lobotomy on each of them. But the night before they are shipped out, an avid reporter named Wayne Gale (Robert Downey, Jr.) gives Mickey a live interview on TV. Soon, Mickey escapes and all hell breaks loose. This movie shows us how messed up the world is through cinema and television. Two innocent people who have been exposed to too much violence go crazy and kill innocent people. I really liked the way the film told the truth and didn't hide anything. The best part is the last act in prison. Genius stuff! Oliver Stone is a great director and I admire him. It really makes you feel sorry for this guilty couple. Harrelson gives a fantastic performance. Spectacular! After seeing him all goofy on “Cheers,” I was really excited to see him like this. I found it strange that his father went to prison because he was a hitman.