SpuffyWeb
Sadly Over-hyped
Baseshment
I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.
FirstWitch
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
jim-67915
Born Killers has got to be one of the lamest and boring movies I have ever suffered through. The actors who played the 2 brothers are not star material to begin with. They are supposed to be stone cold Killers and they come off as soft wannabe tough guys. The kind you have a strong urge to slap for just looking your way. This movie was a dismal failure. Who cast these people ? Was it out of pity ? Lack of a budget ? A casting director who is incompetent ? The actors are dull. The plot is lame. The story is incredibly boring. This has got to be a planned tax write off or something. It would take a complete idiot to read the script and not see it for exactly what it is, as lame as lame can get. It's like someone thought hmmmmm let me find the worst script out there and pick the wimpiest no name cast I can find and see what happens. Well , as I am sure you suspected, nothing happened for a nothing movie ! This movie deserves a minus 10 rating. Born Wimps would be a more appropriate title. LOL
Tss5078
I never would have thought that I could be bored watching a movie about a pair of serial killers. Born Killers changed all that, as it is easily the worst serial killer film I've ever seen. Surprisingly enough, this film starts out pretty good and slowly descends into being unwatchable. John & Michael were left to learn about life from their father, a complete psychopath, so it's no surprise, that they turned out to be killers as well. John (Jake Muxworthy) is the quiet, good looking, methodical one, while his brother Michael (Gabriel Mann), is reckless, leaving John to clean up his mess. After we get the back story on the brothers, and see them in action, they go their separate ways, and the story focuses on John. Jake Muxworthy plays the quiet killer, who eventually meets up with a girl. He falls in love and tries to put his killer urges behind him to live the normal life. Muxworthy was the only reason this film got a rating at all. The film lacked the action I was hoping for and just turned into one conversation after another, but Muxworthy was as advertised, as this good looking, methodical killer, who not only plans things down to the last detail, but who also narrates the story. Born Killers wasn't bad in a way where the movie didn't make sense, the problem was how boring and slow moving it was. After the initial action, nothing really happens except for a lot of people doing a lot of talking, and if that's all I wanted to see, I'd just hang out at the mall.
charlytully
I thought the following two quotes were the most memorable in BORN KILLERS (aka PIGGY BANKS, which would have been a better title for this film, even apart from its use in the poignant father-sons sharing context which brought to mind Polonius' advice to Laertes in HAMLET, but which is truncated to meaninglessness in the "memorable quotes" section here):* * * QUOTE #1) Serial Killer John Vanderslip (his voice-over as he roams a store looking for masking tape--he comes back to Gertie's house with a roll of duct tape, of which she already had a shelf full, qualifying for inclusion in the movie "goofs" category): I'd ended hundreds of--I guess you'd say--human lives, and what good did it do? I wasn't rich, and I wasn't satisfied. Either there was some invisible purpose to my life, or there wasn't. I needed to find out if 'thinning the herd' was part of it, or if I could stop if I had an endless supply of cash. So I would put God to the test." (John then buys a lottery ticket--another goof, because this is supposed to be taking place, and actually is being filmed, in Salt Lake City, UT, and they don't sell lottery tickets there.)* * * QUOTE #2) John (after downing the fatally poisoned shot of Irish Creme his half-sister\lover Gertie has come back from the kitchen with): No more for me, please.Gertie: That one should do you.* * * I don't want to clutter the "memorable quotes" section with TWO of my own, so please vote "yes" for #1 or "no" for #2. Thank you. Voting ends one year from today (March 10, 2010).
sufferingsappho69
If there was ever a monument to the 11th Commandment of DVD selection (Thou Shalt Not Base Thy Expectations For The Movie on Its Packaging), "Born Killers" is it. Even the title seems designed to make you think you're getting some forgettable little blood-soaked b-movie schlockfest. (A little digging revealed the movie's real title when first released in foreign markets was "Piggy Banks," but the name was changed for the U.S. release because . . . Well, I'm not sure why, actually. You have to think a big successful distributor like Lions Gate knows what it's doing.) Anyhoo. I rented it on the recommendation of a friend whose taste in indie cinema I trust, and it turned out to be quite the dark little treat. Yes, the first thirty or forty minutes or so are--as advertised--a peek at the life of the roving North American serial murderer in his natural element. But instead of gore these scenes are punctuated with some entertaining dialogue, revelatory narration, and intriguing characters possessed of (admittedly) vulgar and brutal sensibilities . . . but somehow coupled with subtle hints of the real complexity beneath the crimson surface. And then as the movie reaches the half-way mark it spins off into a wholly new direction, at which point you realize (again) that though you thought you had a pretty good handle on just what kind of film you were watching you in fact didn't have a clue. Stick around, if for no other reason than to see the luminous Lauren German (Gertie) enter the story and surprise even the most jaded soul . . .
