Tasty slice of pulp fiction; superb once-in-a-lifetime cast

Rating: Null/10 (23 April 2003)

TRUE ROMANCE (1993) ***1/2 Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, Brad Pitt, Gary Oldman, Michael Rapaport, Chris Penn, Tom Sizemore, Bronson Pinchot, Saul Rubinek,James Gandolfini,Samuel L. Jackson (cameo).
Offbeat comic thriller neo-noir about a comic book clerk and his naive bride who come across a cache of cocaine and drive cross country leaving a trail of mayhem and carnage in their wake. Tony Scott's nineties version of "Bonnie and Clyde" with a motley crew of characters and some truly brutal scenes of unflinching violence.
Scripted by Quentin Tarantino. Val Kilmer is The Ghost of Elvis, the mystical tour guide to hell.