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100Anybody who talks about True Romance has to start with the writing. It's dazzling. In scene after scene, Tarantino surprises the audience even while coming up with dialogue that rings much more true than anything you could have anticipated. [10 Sept 1993]
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100These gun-crazy, lust-loopy kids on the run are irresistible in the best crime rush since “GoodFellas.” [10 Sept 1993]
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100One of the best mainstream action-thrillers [in] a decade.
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83You never forget you're watching a derivative, machine-tooled entertainment; the fun is in how the machine keeps spinning off course.
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80Tony Scott steers the movie like a rocket and it never slows down.
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80A vibrant, grisly, gleefully amoral road movie. [10 Sept 1993, p.C5]
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75The blistering confrontation scene between Hopper and Walken -- both in peak form -- will be talked about for years. It's pure Tarantino: a full-throttle blast of bloody action and verbal fireworks.
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75True Romance, which feels at times like a fire sale down at the cliche factory, is made with such energy, such high spirits, such an enchanting goofiness, that it's impossible to resist. Check your brains at the door.
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70Blends and recycles elements of scores of crime and road movies, from "Bonnie and Clyde" to "Badlands" but it does so with enough energy and verve to create something entirely fresh and infectiously entertaining.
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67Consistently entertaining.
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63Despite Tony Scott's occasional blundering, True Romance is still a visceral roller coaster.
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60As usual, Tarantino's sense of fun is infectious but fairly heartless.
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50The Tony Scott version of Tarantino comes out vulgar; the graphic violence and profanity-laced posturing represent everything that the wannabes soon used to exhaust audiences. Nevertheless, True Romance contains so many unforgettable moments.
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50It doesn't add up to enough, as preposterous plotting and graphic violence ultimately prove an audience turnoff.
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40Amid the violence, the one-liners ring out. Nobody speaks for real. It's as if they all know they're in a movie.
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Despite its noir references and evocations, this slick film, directed by Tony Scott from Quentin Tarantino's script, is a preposterously bloody mess, as is the plot.
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25A stupid, stylized road picture. [10 Sept 1993]
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10It is hard to say what is more dispiriting about True Romance the movie itself or the fact that someone somewhere is sure to applaud its hollow, dime-store nihilism and smug pseudo-hip posturing as a bright new day in American cinema. [10 Sept 1993]
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