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 Rated 3 out of 5
Harrelson is wicked; he’’s a natural born weirdo
Harrelson and Lewis do a really good job in this somewhat odd movie. It’’s tongue-in-cheek, making fun of itself, yet cold, harsh, and violent. Just a very unique movie. If needless violence bothers you, then you need to take a pass, b/c the movie is primarily ABOUT needless violence. Rated 5 out of 5!
¿If you got me locked then take your shot¿
NBK is a parody on the tabloid medias sensationalism of violent news stories which also exposes the corruption of officials and professionals who use this same system to benefit themselves. This is probably Oliver Stones most revered work to date which was panned by the critics and public alike who saw it as nothing more than an excuse for a violent and offensive movie. It was banned and censored in many countries and Warner Brothers pulled the VHS release from many places and television stations choose to censor certain scenes.NBK is a hybrid of a film. It is everything from comical, to arty, trippy, violent, stupid, pretentious, wonderful, sad, gripping, dramatic, action packed, sexual, mystical and psychological. In many ways this is because Stone choose to let the story and actors take the film where it wanted to go. In this DVD presentation you see many documentaries, makings off, deleted scenes and a directors cut with commentary which show how the film evolved from Tarantinos screenplay to a sort of roller coaster film making that strayed from conventional Hollywood production standards and often left the script because of it. Tarantino himself hates this version of his script but basically Stone just let everything ride along by itself, almost with nobody at the wheel at times. This is what gives the film that "out there" nervous edge to it. Many of cast and production crew also took drugs when making this film and sometimes just headed off into the middle of nowhere to see what they could come up with. Stone also uses every type of media available from cartoons, to video, to Super 8mm, 16mm, 35mm and black/white and color film with lots of stock footage thrown in. This is Guerilla film making with a high budget. The story is in two parts and basically revolves around Mickey (Woody Harrelson) and Mallory Knox (Juliette Lewis), who meet up in their youth and decide to go on a massive killing spree across America followed by Wayne Gale (a massive performance from Robert Downey Jr.) a producer and presenter for a tabloid television hit show that focuses on mass murderers. Also trailing in their wake is the serial killer hunting psychopathic detective - Scagnetti (played by Tom Sizemore), who has written a book called "Scagnetti on Scagnetti". The first half of the film is full on crazy but you have not seen anything until the second half of the film appears which mostly takes place inside an overpopulated penitentiary run by Warden Dwight McClusky (could be Tommy Lee Jones best performance. Wonderfully overacted and he hits the right moments at all the right times) in which all hell literally breaks loose. Its a mad mad mad guerilla film and the DVD extras are must to get the full effect. Wonderfully insane but many people will hate it for all of its excessiveness. Its plays more like an Acid Trip that a movie. Only Stone could do it and you should be thankful that he put the spin on Hollywood with this monster of a movie. Hell-bending stuff.
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