Review – Wild at Heart

This movie would make a good double feature with Natural Born Killers. And by “good” I mean “apt,” not “pleasant” or “well directed.” Both pictures feature a young couple on a cross-country crime spree. Both feature a ton of gratuitous sex and violence. And both are the work of vastly overrated directors (Oliver Stone in the case of Killers and David Lynch here). Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern play Sailor and Lula, two crazy kids who run away together. So mama (Diane Ladd) sends a hitman after them, and off we go. The picture features a load of the art school weirdness that made Lynch famous. Otherwise, however, it’s dumb and dull. See if desperate