True Romance

I got feedback from Tommy, my one known reader of this "fan review" deal I got going here. He understands this is a work in progress, and I don't really know how to review a movie "the real way" so he gave me a little constructive criticism. So I am going to try to shy away from too much movie recap, and more how I liked it and shit like that.

I got True Romance in the mail last week, and just finally got around to watching it. Quentin Tarantino wrote it, and Tony Scott directed. I can honestly say I am not the biggest Tarantino supporter, but I do like his writing. I like most of what I've seen from Tony Scott, specifically Enemy of the State and Man on Fire, and this movie was done five years before EOS.

Anyhow, there is a pretty good ensemble cast of characters, many of which have gone on to obviously larger roles than what they have in this. Brad Pitt, Samuel L. before Pulp Fiction, James Gandolfini and so on all played good minor roles, and have since gone on to be humongous stars, while leading man Christian Slater has dropped off the face of the planet.

The story revolves around a hooker (Patricia Arquette and her juicy juggernauts) who meets up with Clarence (Slater) as a job and winds up falling for him. She tells him her pimp beat her and he takes matters into his own hands and takes vengence for her. Unknowingly, thinking he is taking her belongings, he winds up taking a huge some of cocaine, which of course leads to the shit hitting the fan*** and they have the drug dealers and cops on to them.

The coke obviously belongs to terrible people, and one of those terrible people turns out to be Christopher Walken who has a pretty sweet scene in the movie with Dennis Hopper, but is never to be seen again which was plenty dissapointing.

I think the movie was decent, although for some reason it seemed to drag a little bit. There is plenty of intense violence, blood, gun play, tit shots and for the ladies and guys who like Christian Slater, they get to see his ass too. Pretty good dialogue and good acting all around. It was a nice surprise to see Balkei (Bronson Pinchot) and he has a pretty funny scene when he is pulled over for speeding.

The ending in the hotel reminded me of the ending of Reservoir Dogs on a much grander scale, and it makes sense since Tarantino wrote both. I agree with a friend where the ending is pretty far fetched, but I dont want to get into what specific detail, because it might ruin the ending. If you've seen it and would like to discuss, feel free to leave a comment and give a spoiler alert or what have you. All 1 of you reading this.

I'd recommend the movie to watch if you want to see a violent love story that came out a year before Natural Born Killers, story by who else but Tarantino right? Has some sweet gun action and intense violence as I said already.

I read a user comment on IMDB about this being someones favorite movie of all time because you couldn't see where it was going. While thats a good opinion for her, I disagree and saw a lot of the movie coming and thought parts were pretty predictable. This didnt stop me from enjoying it and wanting to see what happened though.

I'll give this one 3 and a half out of 5 I guess.

Soon enough I will figure out how to structure these, and in a couple of months, people can re-read the first however many and hopefully see how much of a difference there is.

Any feedback is welcome with how I could do these better, or how people would want me to review them without ripping off anybody elses style. For now though, enjoy my shitty take on shitty movies, and LIKE IT JERKS!!

***Watch the movie Airplane for the classic shit hitting the fan scene.