True Romance (1993)

All Critics (47) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (50) | 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.

August 16, 2009 Full Review

Richard Corliss

TIME Magazine

Top Critic

Provides some amazing encounters, bravura acting turns and gruesome carnage. But it doesn't add up to enough.

November 19, 2008 Full Review | Comments (7)

Variety Staff

Variety

Top Critic

If the romance seldom seems 'true', the spiralling violence (script, Quentin Tarantino) does succeed, in a brutish, cod-Jacobean kind of way.

June 24, 2006 Full Review

Geoff Andrew

Time Out

Top Critic

This film's various outrages are committed unapologetically, and are very much in the service of its bizarre story.

May 20, 2003 Full Review

Janet Maslin

New York Times

Top Critic

It's Tarantino's gutter poetry that detonates True Romance. This movie is dynamite.

May 12, 2001 | Comments (3)

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Top Critic

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.

January 1, 2000 Full Review

Desson Thomson

Washington Post

Top Critic

...a pulpy good time that holds up remarkably well two decades after its theatrical release...

January 1, 2013 Full Review

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

...[a] violently funny genre mishmash that gave Tony Scott's new life, and also transmitted Quentin Tarantino's vision more credibly than the screenwriter and then-novice director could have done himself.

August 23, 2012 Full Review

Chris Barsanti

PopMatters

About as good as contemporary Hollywood movies get.

August 16, 2009 Full Review

TV Guide's Movie Guide

Such a rush that it's only towards the end that you realise the picture is less than the sum of its impressive parts.

August 16, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)

Film4

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]

June 1, 2009 Full Review

Peter Canavese

Groucho Reviews

...a study in all-out, over-the-top bloodshed, irony, tenderness, and laughs. (Blu-ray Edition)

May 26, 2009 Full Review

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

...a chase picture, a gangster picture, and a wacky, turbulent romance...sort of a Bonnie and Clyde on speed.

May 26, 2009 Full Review

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

insanely transcendent

May 20, 2009 Full Review

Jason McKiernan

Filmcritic.com

My Favorite Movie Of All Time

August 2, 2008 | Comments (4)

Kevin McCarthy

BDK Reviews

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.

January 9, 2007 Full Review

Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

like always, Walken owns the movie

April 3, 2006 Full Review | Comments (2)

Stefan Birgir Stefansson

sbs.is

God I wish I had written this movie.

December 6, 2005 Full Review | Comment (1)

Brad Laidman

Film Threat

A hip, clever and irreverent high-voltage thriller with nary a dull moment.

July 28, 2005

Chuck O'Leary

Fantastica Daily

• 1. Vincenzo Coccotti: What we are doing is having a game show and tell. You aren't telling me anything, but you're showing me everything.
  – Submitted by Brendan C (2 months ago)
• 1. Clifford Worley: So if that's a fact tell me... Am I lying?
  – Submitted by Brendan C (5 months ago)
• 1. Vincenzo Coccotti: I haven't killed anybody...since 1984.
  – Submitted by Johnny W (6 months ago)
• 1. Floyd - Dick's Roomate: You guy's wanna smoke a bowl or...
  – Submitted by Dee W (6 months ago)
• 1. Clifford Worley: 'Cause you, you're part eggplant.
  2. Vincenzo Coccotti: You're a cantaloupe.
  – Submitted by Jayden R (8 months ago)
• 1. Alabama Worley: Amid the chaos of that day, when all I could hear was the thunder of gunshots, and all I could smell was the violence in the air, I look back and am amazed that my thoughts were so clear and true, that three words went through my mind endlessly, repeating themselves like a broken record: you're so cool, you're so cool, you're so cool. And sometimes Clarence asks me what I would have done if he had died, if that bullet had been two inches more to the left. To this, I always smile, as if I'm not going to satisfy him with a response. But I always do. I tell him of how I would want to die, but that the anguish and the want of death would fade like the stars at dawn, and that things would be much as they are now. Perhaps. Except maybe I wouldn't have named our son Elvis.
  – Submitted by Ryan O (8 months ago)

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