Movie Review: True Romance (1993)

CSI: Cyber premiered on TV last night. If I get the chance, I'll watch the pilot and review that on here. I saw that the show starred Patricia Arquette. It all got me thinking about how I knew her in the first place. True Romance. When I first saw True Romance, it blew me away. It's an excellent movie, everything about it works. I mean yeah, the story drags a little in the end, but it's hard to keep a movie about hitmen and mobsters entertaining throughout the whole thing. True Romance tells the story of Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette. Christian's character is this guy who pretty much lives in his own universe of comic books and movies. He is a pop culture dude. Then he meets this girl played by Arquette named Alabama. They get married. Once their married, Patricia reveals to Slater that she is a hooker, and she has been employed by these drug lord dudes to go out and take peoples money. The movie unravels from there. There are so many good scenes in this movie. Slater then has to go and seek revenge against these guys for mistreating her, setting him on a road of destruction. Now True Romance is the idea of a star cast. It has Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldmen, Christopher Walkem, Brad Pitt, Dennis Hopper, and a brief, thirty second cameo by Samuel L Jackson. Now Tony Scott directed this movie, but Quentin Tarantino wrote the story. So in that way, it's like Natural Born Killers. However, I think this movie does things way differently than that movie. Therefore, I don't think we can easily compare these two films. True Romance has everything: good cast, good dialogue, good intense scenes, excellent climax. Three stars.