Quentin Tarantino wrote "True Romance", with some help from an uncredited Roger Avary, but Tony Scott was the director which might account for why, at times, it's a sickeningly violent, exploitative mess of a movie redeemed by the brilliance of Tarantino's dialogue and its terrific cast.
Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette are the young lovers on the lam with $500,000 worth of cocaine stolen from the Mob while Christopher Walken, brilliant as always in his one-scene cameo, and James Gandolfini are among those on their trail. Movie references abound, of course, but it needs a firmer hand on the helm. There's fun to be hand here but it's also really rather unpleasant.
