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Summary: A bloody crime movie with a cool story
Review: Tarantino has written this movie and he do a perfect job. Clarence, a young man (Christian Slater, who is talking to Elvis) and Alabama, a callgirl (Patricia Arquette) are getting married. After Clarence kills Alabamas boss and take the wrong bag (with drugs), the mafia are chasing them. Much more I won't tell. But there is a lot of action, love, blood and a very explosive showdown. Slater and Arquette are playing very good but I find the little roles of Dennis Hopper (Clarence father) who get shoot by Christopher Walken (the mafia boss), Brad Pitt (a friend of a friend from Clarence) who is stoned by all the time when you see him and Gary Oldman (Alabamas boss), very cool too. And Tarantino like there is much violence. The shootout at the end (where cops and the mafia are shooting each other) is very brutal but perfect directed.
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Summary: Get youself some egg rolls...
Review: fresh from his debut in reservoir dogs, tarantion concocted a underrated crime saga, which was also part love story. christian slater and partrica arquette play two low lifes who are meant for each other, christian is perfect as the slacker, while arquette, even as a hooker, still has a look of innocence...only tarantino could tap into the heart of crime and white trash america so perfectly. the best scene in the movie is when dennis hopper as slater's father, is covering up for his son, against the mobster, played by christopher walken, you knew hopper was going to die, but he used the only power he had to get walken's goat, "the italians born from niggers speech" i laughed my head off. Gary Oldman plays one of the quirkiest , if not the quirkiest role of his career, as a wigger cum jamaican pimp, who even as a wannabe, makes christian slater look whiter than white... so, "get yourself some egg rolls" and check out this underrated classic.
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Summary: True Romance is another gem from the master Tarentino.
Review: The first time I saw this movie I thought it had everything you need for a great movie, but I really didn't appreciate its brilliance. This is a movie just gets better and better and better... every time you see it. It includes a cast so strong that it could never be assembled today. This was made just before Brad Pitt, Samuel Jackson, and Val Kilmer's careers took off- all of whom play small but exceptional roles. Patricia Arquette, who is at her prime, makes it possible to fall in love with a call girl. Plus Dennis Hopper and Christfer Walken have one the greatest scenes ever filmed. However I don't recommend it the racially sensitive or those who strive for political correctness. This movie shows what happens to Clarence Whorly (Christian Slayter), a man content with life, who discovers true love. I give this movie my highest recommendations and it should come standard with the purchase of every VCR or DVD player. Also, the Director's Cut adds little lines and slightly changes the ending, improving and already great movie.
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Summary: A Little Late But Oh So Great!
Review: I can't believe I didn't see this movie earlier. Until I saw it in a magazine and asked a friend at work what it was I had no idea that a movie of the quality existed. I borrowed it and fell in love with it. Only a few movies have actually gotten me to feel for the characters and feel like watching it again right after the first time. I wasn't too sure about it after reading who was in it; most movies with lots of big stars in them make me feel like it was just something they made just to try and make some money. The whole thing kept my interest unlike most movies where I keep looking at my watch. Slater and Arquette made the perfect couple and when they each killed for the first time I was reeling. They both had such different reasons for killing and pulled it off beautifully. The R rating is there for a reason, but the movie was not overly graphic like some of the newer movies that feel that the more blood the better. An absolute must buy for anyone who likes to watch movies.
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Summary: Phat!
Review: This is one of my all time favorites; Christian Slater is awesome as the Elvis worshiping Clarence, Patricia Arquette is sexy and cool as Alabama, Gary Oldman does a wicked dope dealer, Dennis Hopper is well, Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken is here, the guy from The Sopranos as a tough guy- what else, oh yeah, Brad Pitt as the Honey Bear bong smokin' hippie as Soundgarden blasts in the background, Val Kilmer is the ghost of Elvis, Saul Rubinek oozes with Hollywood powermonging brilliance, Rappaport(Dick Ritchie), Pinchot, and many more make cameos. Tarantino wrote it, Tony Scott directed it (and borrowed the ending again in Enemy of the State). It's got it all; love, sex, drugs, rock n roll, revenge, and plenty of violence with the mother of all endings. This movie is funny as hell too. The Director's Cut is the only way to go with this one to note. Nothing dramatic, just high voltage entertainment!
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Summary: When he was alive, not now that he's dead, said she.
Review: Even though I do have a tender spot for the actor CHRISTIAN SLATER as he appears in TRUE ROMANCE, I find the story itself quite repulsive. On the other hand, right from the first viewing, I found the opening music so enchanting that, no matter how unpleasant the movie was, I couldn't help but develop a kind of sentimental attachment for it. All along, I thought this music was by ZIMMER as the credits said. It was only when I read one of the reviews of the Soundtrack CD, that I was made to realize that it was not by ZIMMER at all, but by no less than the great CARL ORFF. So, at least, I can thank ZIMMER for exposing me to that lovely music. I also want to thank the reviewer referred to above for informing me about the real author. - TRUE ROMANCE has another piece of very beautiful music: the duet by Lakmé and Mallika from DELIBES' opera. What I can't understand, though, is how on earth anybody would want to use such innocent and heart-melting music as a background for this throughly disgusting scene between three dehumanized, cynical and unfunny goons and the hapless DENNIS HOPPER. The music is played so low, however, that you can hardly hear it, - so ashamed the producer was, I suppose, to desecrate such beauty.
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Summary: A DVD review
Review: This DVD doesn't have much to offer other than a great movie with a bunch of cameos from some big name actors. A good DVD to have in the collection if you liked the film.
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Summary: Tarantino and a cast of thousands
Review: Tarantino writes the script. And everyone and their mothers are in this movie. The casting must have cost half the budget. (One wonders why Steve Buscemi wasn't in on this one.) However, the casting and the script are pretty much the only reasons to watch this movie, which is about forty-five minutes too long for its plot. Christian Slater and his unknowing wife (Patricia Arquette) steal half a million dollars' worth of cocaine from a very nasty pimp/dealer (an unrecognizable Gary Oldman, playing as great a bad guy as he did in The Professional) and head for Cali to sell it. Could've been a high-powered action flick (the theft), could have been a good road movie (getting to Cali), could have been another good high-powered action flick (trying to sell the drugs to a hysterically funny Bronson Pinchot), but when the director attempted to glue the pieces together, everything came out flat. For Tarantino completists.
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Summary: Elvis lives
Review: When I first saw this movie my friend had invited me to watch it with him and his girlfriend. I thought that because of the name that it was going to be some chick flick. The ensuing story and scene to scene action is unbelievable. First you have Slater's charachter, a down to earth cat with a twist. He's not really cool to anyone but himself and Alabama. It's easy to identify with his easy lifestyle. Then what realy hooks you is Alabama. She has a slight irregularity with her teeth that let's you know even though she is super hot, she is not above being human. What seals this movie is the beating Alabama takes for her lover, an ordinary cat with an obssesion for Elvis.
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Summary: Very good not to mention unusual
Review: Wow! When you mix together a Tarantino script and Tony Scott, you get one unusual film! Christian Slater is a loser who works in a comic book store. One night he falls in love with a prostitute only to wind up killing her pimp (Gary Oldman at his most bizarre) the next day and taking off to California with a briefcase full of cocaine. But along with this criminal lovers on the run plot (which works really well here) is an all star cast which included Brad Pitt, Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, Tom Seizemore, Chris Penn, Bronson Pinchot, and Val Kilmer (yes, he really is the ghost of Elvis in this film). And how else would this movie end than have everyone end up in one room pointing guns at one another waiting to see who pulls the trigger first (this scene is very much alike some of John Woo's Hong Kong films)? It is a truly unusual film. Its certainly is not nearly as good as some of the films Tarantino had up his sleave in the future but it was a step in the right direction. All his fans should definately check this film out.
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