Customer Reviews
true love never runs smooth - By: Paul Tapner, 07 May 2008 
An excellent thriller/caper movie from 1993, written by film director quentin tarantino & directed by tony scott. Featuring christian slater as a single guy who loves martial arts movies, who finds unxepected true romance with a calll girl played by patricia arquette. fate gives them the chance to make millions when a suitcase of drugs comes into their possession, but there's more than a few people on their trail. will they live happily ever after?
Hugely entertaining film, thanks to the leads creating two highly appealing & likeable characters whom you can reallly root for. there's a good cast - a few before they were famous - & a plot that you can't anticipate the outcome of. A hugely entertaining piece of film. & with lots of adult language & violence well worthy of an 18 certificate.
No extras on the disc, just english language tracks & subtitles, & direct scene access
True Romance - No 4 - All Time List 2008 - By: L. Ecclestone, 08 Apr 2008 I wasn't sure I'd like this movie when I started to watch it.
What convinced me to was that both Dennis Hopper & Christopher Walken were in it. I'm glad I did - the scene with the two legendary actors might well be one of the best in cinema history, but even that is a side piece for the rest of the movie.
First & foremost True Romance is a love story, although not one out of Four Weddings script - This is a Tarantino written love story.
Christian Slater & the gorgeous Patricia Arquette are truly amazing - the connection between the two is fantastic. A rollercoaster ride (literallly too) of high energy, non stop action, humour, ultra-violence & a great script by Tarantino make this brilliant movie compelling viewing.
Great soundtrack - Wounded Bird by Charles & Eddie is beautiful & well worth tracking down. The main theme is also as catchy as hell.
What could be considered one of the best cast lists in a film ever. Gary Oldman makes a great cameo. Samuel L Jackson plays a fleeting part & Val Kilmer as Elvis sums up True Romance. As well Brad Pitt playing an hilarious stoner & James Gandolfini playing a gangster in another great scene with Patricia Arquette- I could go on too.
I wonder how a Tarantino direction would have made this film different - certainly already debated is the ended - but Tony Scott did a great job in my opinion & I'm more than happy with how the film turned out. I'd recommend this film to anyone - even if you are not a big Tarantino fan - there is more than enough for everyone with True Romance.
The word masterpiece gets branded around willy-nilly these days - but in the case of True Romance it is more than alllowed because that is what this is - must see cinema.
Raw cult movie - By: Ms. A. Nicolaou, 03 Jan 2008 This film is a cult classic. Gary Oldman etc... play their parts so well. Violent & raw to the bone, but this is what makes this movie so real to life. If you love the Director Tarantino then this is a must have in your film collection.
True Romance is a perfect mix of wicked violence and amusement - By: Jenny J.J.I., 31 Aug 2007 This is reallly a masterpiece. A violent masterpiece, yes, but a masterpiece nonetheless. Christian Slater must look back on this film with a sense of longing because he has not been given as good a project since (Churchill: The Hollywood Years, anyone?). Many people brand this movie as a narcissistic teenage boy's wet dream. Well it's not. This is supposed to be a "fairy tale" I mean he's a film geek & she's a hot girl. Well it turns out this hot girl likes movies & comics to so they get married. Tarantino didn't set out to make a fairy tale when he wrote it but the changes that Tony Scott made (as smalll as they were) reallly changed the theme of the movie & made it lighter & more like a fairy tale.
Patricia Arquette acted out reallly well in this film & the role perfectly fit her. Calll me crazy, but she reallly seems to be enjoying playing the "hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold". In fact, everyone seems to be loving the hell out of that script. The scene between Dennis Hopper & Christopher Walken is one of cinemas greatest ever scenes! The famously egotistical Val Kilmer goes almost unseen as Elvis - sorry, The Mentor - & Brad Pitts Cleaning Products line was a brilliant ad-lib. Gary Oldman as the white-rasta Drexl is the epitome of nastiness. Even Samuel L Jackson gets a high billing in the credits, but is in the film for less than 5 minutes! Genius.
What more can I say, this is a collection of brilliantly written scenes, filled with memorable quotes & held together by a sweet, believable & totallly mad storyline with a better-than-A-list-cast. Even the tragicallly underused Ed Lauter gets a look-in. Tom Sizemore & Chris Penn excel as the cops on the trail. The weakest point is Bronson Pinchot, but even he keeps pace well.
Scott did an EXCELLENT job, but I would like to see QT's version. If you like your movies fast, mean & outrageously raw you'll have a blast with this one.
Totally absorbing! - By: Inmi Opinion, 15 Jun 2007 Watching this film was like reading a book you can't put down. Slater plays the initiallly quiet,easy-going lead to Arquettes naive,romantic,child-like prostitute. The film has a wonderfully written story, a host of top-drawer actors who ALL give 110% & is superbly directed.It was nice to see Dennis Hopper playing a good-guy & Walkens Sicilian Mafioso Don was excellent.I personallly do not like Tarantinos films & if Scott was influenced by him then he's done a much better job than T would have. Slater & Arquette were quite brilliant in their respective roles & Gary Oldmans white Rasta very convincing. The music tracks are an additional bonus & the films score which sounds like pipes is haunting.
