Decent, but not a classic

Rating: 7/10 (25 November 2018)

For this time, this was pretty good, but viewed after the passage of time, you can see all of the affectations that Tarantino puts into all of his stuff here in the early stages (old movie talk, violent shoot outs, etc). That's not to say this is a bad movie, it's well made, with lots of stars in bit parts and is well shot, but it's hardly an all time great. Arquette has zero character other than loving Slater and dressing "quirky" while Slater's character is just a Tarantino clone who loves Elvis. Everyone else is pretty much a trope, and that works out fine for a genre movie, but it's certainly not anything deeper or better. For Tony Scott, its one of his best though.