Appeals to a knowlegeable audience

Rating: Null/10 (9 June 2000)

Tarantino's script for this film is very mature...its best viewer is a viewer who watches a lot of movies.
Many of the scenes are striking not only for their plainly-observable actions, but also for the method by which the scenes are played out.
IMO, it is difficult to write a movie script that talks about movies, yet Tarantino expertly weaves in and out of characters, drama and violence as though he his stitching his own kickass boxing gloves for a brawl out West.
True Romance consists of scenes that stand firmly on their own ground. You could pluck a scene from True Romance and show it as its own clip and the viewer might walk away slightly dazed but with a lucid point of view.
For example:
-The Dennis Hopper & Christopher Walken scene
-When Alabama kills that guy
-All of the Drexl scenes
-All of the Lee Doniwitz scenes
Nevertheless, True Romance is packed with interesting characters that offer cohesion - - more so than just by good actors reading good lines. The actors seem to be knowledgeable that they are part of something great, and their performances, spoken words and subtleties reflect that greater knowledge.
Not for the timid, True Romance may influence your movie theater candy-stand decision on whether you should purchase the Gummi Bears, or whether to go full throttle and get the all-beef frank.