True Romance: Critic Reviews

This film's various outrages are committed unapologetically, and are very much in the service of its bizarre story.

Sifting through the bloody, pulpy trash of True Romance -- should you care to -- you'll find amusing, smart-alecky nuggets planted by screenwriter Quentin Tarantino.

The movie may be stylistically visceral, but it's aesthetically corrupt. It might as well have been called Pump Up the Violence.

Made with such energy, such high spirits, such an enchanting goofiness, that it's impossible to resist.

Provides some amazing encounters, bravura acting turns and gruesome carnage. But it doesn't add up to enough.

If you're in the mood for this sort of absurd, violent nonsense ... True Romance does deliver.

Despite Tony Scott's occasional blundering, True Romance is still a visceral roller coaster.

If shoot-'em-up, gobble-'em-down movies like The Fugitive and Jurassic Park are rated PG-13 these days, what does an R-rated action adventure look like? Like True Romance: violent to a fault, glam to the max.

It's Tarantino's gutter poetry that detonates True Romance. This movie is dynamite.

Such a rush that it's only towards the end that you realise the picture is less than the sum of its impressive parts.

About as good as contemporary Hollywood movies get.

A hall of fame guy's movie...[with] a macho '90s ensemble eclipsed only by Glengarry Glen Ross...the monologues--oh, the monologues! [Blu-ray]

...a chase picture, a gangster picture, and a wacky, turbulent romance...sort of a Bonnie and Clyde on speed.

insanely transcendent

My Favorite Movie Of All Time

Based on an early script from Tarantino, Tony Scott's wild movie is amour fou for youth of the 1990s, a gutsy, violent, often exciting picture likely to divide film critics.

If the romance seldom seems 'true', the spiralling violence (script, Quentin Tarantino) does succeed, in a brutish, cod-Jacobean kind of way.

like always, Walken owns the movie

God I wish I had written this movie.

A hip, clever and irreverent high-voltage thriller with nary a dull moment.

Fast, Fun and Fantastically performed....One hot little movie

One of the most dynamic action films of the 1990s.

Overrated, but still quite a bit of fun.