Written by David Velog and Richard Rutkowski, from a story by Quentin Tarantino, and directed by Oliver Stone, this fevered tale about a couple of love-bird serial killers whose gruesome handiwork transforms them international media celebrities, unfolds with disorientating perversity of a kaleidoscopic acid trip. Well versed in the feeding frenzy politics of a media only too eager to pander to an audience's worst voyeuristic instincts. Stone has stylised the film's ultra-violence with Clockwork Orange intensity, amplifying the non-linear imagery attendant to each atrocity with a bewildering fusion of videotape, colour and black and white photography. As Mickey and Mallory, the doting psychopaths at the centre of this surreal satire, Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis are a nightmare personified; as the tabloid talk-show host orgiastically exploiting their every move, Robert Downey Jr. chews the scenery and some lead in a frenzied, go-for-broke performance. Tommy Lee Jones and Tom Sizemore essay some of the other noteworthy lambs Stone cold-bloodedly sacrifices in the film's hysterical finale. The film wins the Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival,
