Both Mickey and Mallory Knox came from traumatized childhoods, and band together to travel across America killing people. They leave one person alive to tell the story and eventually become media darlings. America loves serial killers. They're dangerous, exciting, and mysterious. Mickey points out that technically they are mass murderers, but since they do it more than once, I think it counts. There are so many movies, TV episodes, documentaries, and books about serial killers.
The film has a highly visual style that requires the viewer's full attention. There are a lot of extra images in the background, and random commercials as well. It's like the media: bombarding us with violence then commercials to calm us down and make us want to buy stuff. Coca-cola let the filmmakers use their delightful polar bears feature in the movie without bothering to read it which I think is hilarious.
Mickey and Mallory are caught and inexplicably wind up in the same jail. Mickey pulls a daring escape in the middle of a live interview and they both escape into the wilderness. Maybe they shouldn't have been put in the same jail at all, that would've solved that problem. I also liked Wayne, played by Robert Downey Jr, because he was everything wrong with the media. He only cared about himself and his ratings and ended up with nothing.
The movie was visually exciting but I don't think I would watch it again. I will give it a 6/10.
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