Great, sappy, romantic movie

Rating: 7/10 (3 September 2000)

This movie is so awesome. It is one of the very few romantic movies that I love. Generally, I refuse to see movie such as City of Angels, You've Got Mail, and I hated Sleepless in Seattle and Pretty Woman. But, this movie was the second best romantic and cliched movie I have seen. The best was Bonnie and Clyde, and that was probably original.
*****SPOILERS*****SPOILERS***** Plot: Semi-sappy plot that would generally make me gag. Guy and Prostitute fall in love. Guy kills pimp, and runs with cocaine stash. They plan on selling it to big producer for money to escape. It was mentioned before that we should hate them for being drug dealers, and I think that the general public should not like it, but who would do crazy things for a little thing called love? Every single action in the movie is done out of love and dedication. Their ultimate goal is to run away and have a family.
Acting: Decent. Slater was Slater. However, in this movie, he was somewhat toned down from his normal Nicholson-esque acting, and you could see some emotion. You could tell that the couple were truly in love, and it works really well. The best roles were the secondary characters (although, Arquette is, as mostly, superb). Brad Pitt as a pothead, Walken as a drug lord, Val Kilmer as Elvis, Gary Oldman as a pimp. All of these roles are just perfect.
The whole movie is done with enough finesse that you almost, but not quite, forget about all of the cliches in the movie. The violence is over-the-top, almost no consequences in the movie, and it is almost a fantasy world, like how people feel when in love for the first time. Highly recommended to all romantic types as a cross-over introduction to the violent cinema, and to all violent cinema lovers as a intro to romantic movies (it may not fully change you however.
9/10