Review of True Romance (1993) by Sherry L — 04 Dec 2013

Not many script writers can mix ultra violence and a really cute romance into the same script. Quentin Tarantino is playing in his own league and have always been. Director Tony Scott (The Hunger, Top Gun, Enemy Of The State and Spy Game) had his peak right here, is you ask me personally.

Christian Slater plays Clarence Worley, an Elvis Presley-loving nerd who works in a comic magazine shop.

He spends his birthday in a cinema, watching some martial arts movie-marathon, when he "accidently" bumps into the beautiful (but suspiciously clumsy...) girl, Alabama (Patricia Arquette). who sits down next to him. They fall for each other immediately, and Alabama soon reveals that she is a first time prostitute, but have now find love and wants to quit immediately.

Though he's been warned that her pimp Drexl Spivey (Gary Oldman) is a dangerous complete maniac, Clarence still pays a visit for recollecting Alabama's stuff. But things goes terribly wrong and by miracle Clarence manages to kill Drexl and get away alive with what he thinks is Alabama's stuff. The only problem is that he accidently took the wrong case, left Alabama's clothes behind him and now has a case full of coke!

So they escape to Hollywood, planning to sell the stuff there and then live happily ever after...But of course they are followed by the owners of the cocain...and unluckily by a sicilian mob with a guy named Vincenzo Coccotti (Christopher Walken) at head.

Though it's very violent, this movie is extremly entertaining and at times very funny. You will spotplenty of renowned actors playing minor characters like; Brad Pitt, Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Samuel L. Jackson, James Gandolfini, Conchata Ferrell (who plays Bertha in 2 and a Half Men).

Highly recommended! (specially for Tarantino-fans).