Natural Born Killers (1994)

Natural Born Killers rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.2/10· 264K votes

Rotten Tomatoes52%

Metacritic74%

TMDb7.053/10· 4K votes

With 52% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.2/10 on IMDb and 74/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.

About Natural Born Killers

Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

Cast of Natural Born Killers

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  Woody Harrelson

  as Mickey Knox

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  Juliette Lewis

  as Mallory Knox

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  Robert Downey Jr.

  as Wayne Gale

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  Tommy Lee Jones

  as Warden Dwight McClusky

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  Tom Sizemore

  as Det. Jack Scagnetti

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  Rodney Dangerfield

  as Mallory's Dad

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  Edie McClurg

  as Mallory's Mom

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  Jared Harris

  as London Boy

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  Russell Means

  as Old Indian

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  Maria Pitillo

  as Deborah

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  Sean Stone

  as Kevin

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  Everett Quinton

  as Deputy Warden Wurlitzer

Natural Born Killers facts

Budget

$34M

Box office

$50.3M

Our take on Natural Born Killers

Oliver Stone's 1994 crime thriller follows two lovers, both shaped by traumatized childhoods, who become serial murderers and get irresponsibly glorified by a hungry mass media. Stone treats the story less as a simple bloodbath than as a jagged satire of how television turns killers into celebrities, and the restless, aggressive style mirrors that theme. It suits viewers drawn to provocative, stylistically extreme filmmaking and willing to sit with genuinely disturbing material and a cynical view of the press. Those looking for a straightforward or comfortable crime drama should look elsewhere; this is confrontational, formally daring work built to unsettle as much as entertain.