True Romance (DVD 2000)

This is a very very good film, not a huge Christian Slater fan, but this is one of his best! Acting and story line is excellent you really go on the journey with them. Love it!!

What superb acting in this movie. Patricia Arquette is simply stunning in her portrayal of a kindhearted, naiive 4-day old call girl. She is the ultimate vacant blonde and is ultra believable. Christian Slater's comic geekiness and almost innocence matches and there is real chemistry on screen.

With cameos by Samuel L Jackson, Val Kilmer and Brad Pitt as a hilarious pot head, the story takes lots of personalities from movie producers to cops and offers twists and turns throughout.

The scene with Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken in Dennis' mobile home is classic. You won't take a breath for five minutes! What a hero Gary Oldman is - such a diverse actor. He clearly researches his roles to every minute detail. Sheer brilliance.

Here is a movie that a guy can watch with his girlfriend as, throughout the regular violence, there is a genuine story of love!

In a charming opening sequence, Clarence (Christian Slater), a Rockabilly Elvis fan, finds true love with a gorgeous blond in a leopard skin coat called Alabama Whirly (Patricia Arquette) who deliberately showers him with popcorn as he sits alone watching Kung Foo movies in a half empty cinema.Their instant love affair leads to instant marriage and continues throughout the remainder of the film. So rest assured this is a very delightful romantic love story. All Clarence and Alabama want out of life is to settle down and have a nice family.
The dead Elvis,convinces Clarence to take revenge on Drexel, an ugly one eyed, 14ct gold slimeball drug dealer, for being real nasty to his wife before they met.
With one million dollars worth of 'cola', courtesy of the wasted Drexel, and with a little help from thier actor friend and his sleazy contacts in the film business, they set out to achieve thier goal of living happily ever after, but not without encountering some serious difficulties on the way.
With an excellent script by Tarantino, a well integrated musical score, some seamless editing, and the lovely Rubanesque body line of the heroine, with facial features and skin tones to match, who gives an appealing performance as a streetwise angel, handy with a pump action shotgun as she is with a tub of popcorn, all makes for pure entertainment.
Throw in some fine cameo performances, by Christopher Walkin the 'Anti Christ' Sicilian drug baron,Don Vincenzo, and Dennis Hopper who dared to call him an eggplant (you have to watch the film to find out why), hippy coke head and couch potato Brad Pit, who is into cleaning fluid in a big way, and you have a genuinely fine Teen gangster film......that is, until it all falls apart in the final scene, when 'True Romance' turns from an exciting drama about two young lovers, into a nonsensical white-feathered farce.

True Romance is hands-down my favourite movie of all time. The ensemble cast is second to none,(Slater, Patricia Arquette, Oldman, Walken, Hopper, Pitt, Rappaport, pre-Sopranos Gandolfini, Chris Penn, Sizemore, Pinchot, and Val Kilmer as Elvis). I dare anyone to come up with an equal to this kind of acting firepower. Add this to Quentin Tarantino's powerful script and Tony Scott's slick, stylish directing, and you've got a movie you need to watch numerous times to fully appreciate. As a cool sidenote, my one and only foray into body art was professionally done by the tattoo artist who decorated Clarence and Alabama in the movie. He was discovered while he was working in Venice Beach, California, and has since been working in Kelowna, British Columbia. Canada. The scene with Walken and Hopper is my favourie scene in any movie! The title may mislead people into thinking that it is a chick flick, but it is a true Tarantino movie. If you like his other work, and edgy movies like Killing Zoe, Kalifornia, Fight Club, and Taxi Driver, you will love this movie. I give it 3 thumbs up and 6 out of 5 stars! Enjoy!

This is the ultimate movie - its a chick flick with a dick! Guys will love it girls will swoon over it! I love this movie and always will - there are classic one liners with superb monologues and great casting. Buy it, watch it and get it out whenever you need a little pick me up!

loved it so much I bought a second copy, what more can I say, It is so different frm the usual run of the mill, the characters are above and beyond reality, and remain real