You can't leave this film without being happy...ALSO, NEVER JUDGE A FILM BY ITS NAME!

Rating: Null/10 (23 March 1999)

Last Christmas, I had a bunch of friends over, ogling my favorite gift, a Sony DVD player and a bunch of discs. When They asked what film we should christen it with, I recommended True Romance. As I am known as a person who likes action movies, they began wondering what in the hell I was talking about and saying they did not want to watch a "chick" flick. Laughing, I put the disc in. Two hours later, they were applauding. Several of them begged me to watch it again and asked if I would give them my videocasette of it.
The thing about this film that made it such a failure was that it is a film that requires a certain amount of confidence and allowance of violence. The film's really a love story. Real love. How often does a marriage survived based on two people knowing each other but a day. With these two characters, we do not have to worry about that. What we do have to worry about are an inebriated gangster{Walken, stealing his only scene, and he steals it from Dennis Hopper. One of the film's classic lines comes from here:I'm the Anti-christ, you tell the angels in heaven you never saw evil so singulary personified as in the face of the man who killed you}, his henchmen, a bunch of cops{played to a perfect clique{this is a complement} by Chris Penn and Tom Sizemore} who have tracked them down thanks to a traitor, and a bag full of cocaine. Of course, the real concern is whether Clarence{A movie,Elvis obsessed weirdo} and Alabama{A former prostitute and giggly blonde} can get through this. This film is a triumph for everyone involved, including Tarantino. THis screenplay, the first he ever wrote, is a very effective and entertaining one. It would not have survived or be as well praised had the original ending been intact, but that does not matter. We see Tarantino{normally agressive about doing his own material}'s world through Tony Scott's eyes. THis is Scott's smallest and greatest film. It shows how effective his directing can be. Christian Slater is phenomenal, Patricia Arquette is VERY effective, Dennis Hopper is great, Walken was amazing, and Gary Oldman gives one of his better performances as a pimp{yep, a pimp}. This is a really great movie, and one that makes you happy in the end. Although violent, it will make you walk out of it with a dopey grin on your face. IT IS A GREAT FILM.