Amazon.com video review:
It was directed with energetic skill by Top Gun Tony
Scott, but this breathtaking 1993 thriller (think of it as an
adolescent crime fantasy on steroids) has Quentin Tarantino written
all over it. True Romance is really part of a loose trilogy
that includes Reservoir
Dogs and Pulp
Fiction, with a crackling Tarantino screenplay that rides a
fine line between raucous comedy and violent excess. Christian Slater
plays Clarence, the comic-book lover who meets a beguiling prostitute
named Alabama (Patricia Arquette), confronts her vicious pimp (Gary
Oldman), and embarks on a cross-country odyssey with $5 million worth
of Mafia cocaine. Mayhem ensues, culminating in a favorite Tarantino
climax--the "Mexican standoff"--in which a roomful of guys
are pointing guns at each other, waiting to see who shoots first.
Brutal, profane, and totally outrageous, True Romance is not
for everyone, but with a supporting cast that includes Dennis Hopper,
Christopher Walken, Brad Pitt, and Val Kilmer (as the ghost of
Elvis!), you can be sure this movie will never be boring. --Jeff
Shannon
Amazon.com video review:
It was directed with energetic skill by Top Gun Tony
Scott, but this breathtaking 1993 thriller (think of it as an
adolescent crime fantasy on steroids) has Quentin Tarantino written
all over it. True Romance is really part of a loose trilogy
that includes Reservoir
Dogs and Pulp
Fiction, with a crackling Tarantino screenplay that rides a
fine line between raucous comedy and violent excess. Christian Slater
plays Clarence, the comic-book lover who meets a beguiling prostitute
named Alabama (Patricia Arquette), confronts her vicious pimp (Gary
Oldman), and embarks on a cross-country odyssey with $5 million worth
of Mafia cocaine. Mayhem ensues, culminating in a favorite Tarantino
climax--the "Mexican standoff"--in which a roomful of guys
are pointing guns at each other, waiting to see who shoots first.
Brutal, profane, and totally outrageous, True Romance is not
for everyone, but with a supporting cast that includes Dennis Hopper,
Christopher Walken, Brad Pitt, and Val Kilmer (as the ghost of
Elvis!), you can be sure this movie will never be boring. --Jeff
Shannon
