Average Rating: 7.5/10
Reviews Counted: 45
Fresh: 41 | Rotten: 4
Fueled by Quentin Tarantino's savvy screenplay and a gallery of oddball performances, Tony Scott's True Romance is a funny and violent action jaunt in the best sense.
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 2
Fueled by Quentin Tarantino's savvy screenplay and a gallery of oddball performances, Tony Scott's True Romance is a funny and violent action jaunt in the best sense.
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Quentin Tarantino scripted this wild and wooly blend of action and dark comedy, which reached theaters a year before his breakthrough hit Pulp Fiction. Clarence Worley (Christian Slater) is a well-meaning but socially unskilled comic-shop clerk whose idea of a big night out is catching a Sonny Chiba triple-feature at a downtown grindhouse. Clarence is celebrating his birthday in just such a manner when he meets a beautiful girl named Alabama (Patricia Arquette), and it's love at first sight for
Sep 10, 1993 Wide
Sep 30, 1997
Warner Bros.
All Critics (45) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (48) | Rotten (4) | DVD (28)
If shoot-'em-up, gobble-'em-down movies like The Fugitive and Jurassic Park are rated PG-13 these days, what does an R-rated action adventure look like? Like True Romance: violent to a fault, glam to the max.
Provides some amazing encounters, bravura acting turns and gruesome carnage. But it doesn't add up to enough.
This film's various outrages are committed unapologetically, and are very much in the service of its bizarre story.
It's Tarantino's gutter poetry that detonates True Romance. This movie is dynamite.
Sifting through the bloody, pulpy trash of True Romance -- should you care to -- you'll find amusing, smart-alecky nuggets planted by screenwriter Quentin Tarantino.
The movie may be stylistically visceral, but it's aesthetically corrupt. It might as well have been called Pump Up the Violence.
About as good as contemporary Hollywood movies get.
Such a rush that it's only towards the end that you realise the picture is less than the sum of its impressive parts.
A hall of fame guy's movie...[with] a macho '90s ensemble eclipsed only by Glengarry Glen Ross...the monologues--oh, the monologues! [Blu-ray]
...a study in all-out, over-the-top bloodshed, irony, tenderness, and laughs. (Blu-ray Edition)
...a chase picture, a gangster picture, and a wacky, turbulent romance...sort of a Bonnie and Clyde on speed.
insanely transcendent
My Favorite Movie Of All Time
Based on an early script from Tarantino, Tony Scott's wild movie is amour fou for youth of the 1990s, a gutsy, violent, often exciting picture likely to divide film critics.
If the romance seldom seems 'true', the spiralling violence (script, Quentin Tarantino) does succeed, in a brutish, cod-Jacobean kind of way.
like always, Walken owns the movie
God I wish I had written this movie.
A hip, clever and irreverent high-voltage thriller with nary a dull moment.
Fast, Fun and Fantastically performed....One hot little movie
One of the most dynamic action films of the 1990s.
Filled with great dialogue, characters and performances, the only negative to True Romance is when you start thinking about what it could have been if Quentin Tarantino had directed it.
March 25, 2012Super Reviewer
Don't let the title fool you, this isn't some sappy love story, its a thrilling comedy/crime film with jolts of action and violence, coupled with a great script penned by the masterful Quentin Tarantino.
October 8, 2011Super Reviewer
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