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True Romance is a film that is really cleverly adapted together and is a really cool film with such great characters. This is a cat-and-mouse sort of film and I love films like that a lot. The story is pretty simple and just takes us on a journey through lots of different events. This film is very violent and breathtaking which is what I really like in films. True Romance is a bit like a black comedy because that is what Tarantino's crime films are like. I loved this film a hell of a lot because it was really entertaining, it was cool, it had very interesting characters and there were a lot of absolutely amazing scenes. My favourite scene is with that drug dealer and with Alabama. That is intense, graphic and very effective as well. True Romance is a film that starts in a rather bizarre way but as it carries on it just gets better and better. It didn't disappoint me in any way whatsoever. I just loved this film so much and is almost on my favourite films list. It is rare when we see a film of entertainment that is well filmed, well thought of regarding story and how they were going to film it and mixed with quite a serious cast. Watching True Romance all the way through was like it was going to have a twist or a shocking event.
The cast of True Romance is absolutely incredible. I liked Christian Slater as Clarence Worley. Clarence is a man who just goes to the cinema to watch a Sonny Chiba triple feature. It is rather weird that Clarence meets and has a one-night-stand with Alabama who is a young woman who is payed on a job. She isn't a whore, she is a woman on a job in which you will have to listen to yourself. They end up getting married and they become a really cute couple and makes them perfect for each other but they did meet in an awkward situation where Alabama 'accidentally' knocked her popcorn bag all over Clarence's lap and that leads to things in a deeper and more personal level. I couldn't believe how stunning Patricia Arquette really was as Alabama Whitman. Watching Patricia was like watching Monica Bellucci in Shoot 'Em Up. I had always had suspicions that she was really up to something very impactful and possibly heartbreaking which you might have to see yourself. Dennis Hopper was good as Clifford Worley who is the father of Clarence Worley. Other top-notch cast members Gary Oldman, Val Kilmer, Brad Pitt, Christopher Walken and Samuel L. Jackson deliver all good performances. True Romances has one of the best ensemble casts of all time in my opinion.
The brother of great director Ridley Scott, Tony Scott directs True Romance like it was a piece of work that is like a dream come true. Scott would've directed this film better than Quentin Tarantino despite the fact that he wrote the script for the film. The script was absolutely fantastic which is typical of Tarantino. I find that Tarantino just taught himself how to write scripts by watching lots of films and actually thinking of the scripts himself out of the top of his head. True Romance is one of Tarantino's best written work. I loved the script in Pulp Fiction which is the best script ever written. I love his Kill Bill script as well. I would call this a Quentin Tarantino film. No, he didn't direct it but he did one of the three main jobs of the film. Saying that is like saying that The Nightmare Before Christmas is a Tim Burton even though Tim didn't direct it himself.
To me, True Romance is a really amazing kick-ass action, crime, romantic thriller that deserves to be watched every now and again. I knew I was going to like True Romance but had no clue I was going to love it as much as I did. One of the best films of 1993 definitely and it is takes an almost complete spot on my favourite films of all time list.
9/10
