Natural Born Killers. A movie so vile and debauched in carnage and cynicism that it's easy to see why it has many critics in the more timid, squeamish stomach type of circles. At the same time, one cannot write off such a unique, artfully crafted, and exquisitely filmed piece of work as just some gutter trash. This is great film making!

The feast of a bizarre, twisted, sickly dystopian shadow of America and its media draws the mind in for a two hour ride through this disturbed hell. This time around watching it (I think this is my forth or fifth viewing; can't quite remember), I was able to mentally step back a bit more, and consciously process more of the techniques that Stone uses to... well.... warp the viewers into flash-out mindfuck mode.

It should also be noted that this viewing was of the unrated director's cut, as opposed to the R version. I've seen each at various points before. There are supposed to be many, many subtle differences. (I think I heard somewhere that over a hundred shots were cut to appease the pointy-hairs at MPAA doofus land.) Given the long timespan between viewings, I've only consciously noticed a couple differences. But most of the things that were cut were supposably extremely subtle and minor, and add more to the full richness of the subconscious effect.

A grotesque masterpiece. Definitely a movie worth seeing, IF you have a very high tolerance for blood, grossness, some philosophical ideas about the nature of mankind that many would consider disturbing and/or dangerous, and some craaaaazy movie-making techniques.