Natural Born Killers
B
9/5 9:15pm Starkville, MS
Oliver Stone treats us to yet another violent, bloody picture.  This film
is packed with mindless killing and gore, so much so that it is disgusting.
The picture encourages its audience to go out and kill other people.  If
ever there was a reason to censor films, this would have to be one.  There
isn't much of a plot; a couple of psychos go on a murder rampage.  Near
as I can tell, Stone tries to justify their killings because of their
fucked-up childhoods, or explaining that some people just "need to be
killed".  And no, the artsy way he made the picture in cut and paste
scenery and effects, sometimes switching to black and white, sometimes
doing things in a 50's style sitcom fashion, doesn't make the film
worthwhile.  This is a film that should never have been made.  

Timecop
A-
9/16 7:45pm Secaucus
Jean-Claude Van Damme stars in this techno-thriller movie about a cop
whose wife is killed in 1994 just as he is about to join the special
time police.  Later, in 2004, we see him as a veteran member of the time
police, trying to prove the evil senator is the leader of the bad guys.
And the required elements of a great movie are all here... sex scene,
nude scene, lots of hand-to-hand combat, explosions, fancy toys, gunfights,
and so on.  Only thing missing is a good soundtrack, but I guess you
can't have everything.

Fresh
C
9/17 9:20 Secaucus
This is one of those black films about how life is really rough for black
kids on the street.  Boy, like we haven't heard that one before!  The
neat thing about this one is that the star, a boy of 12 or so, is a chess
player, and gets involved in a complicated chess game on the street, playing
pawns and making sacrifices... kinda neat to watch but not overly fascinating.