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Quentin Tarantino has long been one of, if not the, person in the film industry that I loathe the most. Despite him not directing this one, I had always avoided it just because I didn't want to deal with another one of his shallow disasters of a script. However, I figured at this point I should at least watch it for Gary Oldman's performance, since a ton of people consider it one of their favorites from him. Oldman did not disappoint. As a white pimp who tries to act black, he crafted yet another unique character in his long career, one totally removed from any other character he's ever played. He absorbs so deeply into this character and it serves as another example in the long line of roles that make him the first actor people think of when they hear the word "chameleon".

Unfortunately he's only in it for about ten minutes and then I had to deal with the rest of this awful mess, which is pretty much everything I hate in a Tarantino screenplay. If you're not going to do anything new then you should at least do the old things in an interesting way, but that sure isn't the case here. The whole thing is a pathetically thin old-as-bones story with Tarantino's trademark dialogue that so many people eat up but I find to be disastrously artificial and awkward. No actors would be able to pull off the kind of absurd, unrealistic dialogue that he feeds them here, but a lot of the cast here feels like they aren't even trying to make it seem anything but awful.

Some of the supporting players do all right in their brief screentimes, but Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette are terrible. It doesn't help that they have thin, completely one-dimensional characters (and in Arquette's case, a totally inconsistent one) but they just make matters worse with some abysmal portrayals. This one was a real chore; a completely shallow, needless exercise with some scenes that go on so long I thought I had died and fallen into hell.

This film starts quite promising, tails off a bit after 30 minutes, and the less is said about the gory final the better. Less blood and fewer killings wouldn't have done any harm to the story - or perhaps there wouldn't be much left of a story without all the violence.

First of all, the acting is really over-acted all the way of the movie till the ending credits. Acting ruins everything and makes the movie unwatchable and even the serious scenes appears comic unfortunately. In addition, the soundtrack is dull and stupid, what were they thinking? Perhaps nothing. The plot is boring and not interesting; enough reasons to hit fast-forward after the first thirty minutes of the movie. I have to give one star because of the Arquette's beautiful eyes and buxom body, they will never disappoint and there is no option to give zero stars on IMDb. Finally, there are plenty of drug/crime-related movies to watch ie. this is easy to forget as quickly as possible.

It looks like vomit, it smells like vomit, but it isn't vomit. What is it? Try "True Romance", cinematic piece of puke. 10 Eat, 20 Chew, 30 Digest, 40 Vomit, 50 GOTO 10. Someone mentioning all those actors? Not for a single moment I saw characters they're playing, only obnoxiuos Slater, slutty Arquette, bogus Brad and all those wash-ups. This is NOT Pulp Fiction. Only Hopper is left unscathed by director's wielding shotgun. Maybe that's because he seems only normal person in this movie. Say WHAT?! Movie where Dennis Hopper is the sanest person!? Just watch and look how screen melts from far-over-the-top acting. If someone thinks that's suppose to be cool and I didn't get the joke, well I'm glad I didn't. Just like I'm glad I don't "dig" Rocky and Rambo movies. My cat's hairball is more artistic than True Romance. YUCK!

Probably the most stupid movie I have ever seen, and I write as someone who liked Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs. The only person that comes out of it well is the casting director who managed somehow (presumably Tarantino's name) to get great actors to waste themselves on it.

The script (I assume Tarantino, who can do better, phoned his ideas in and someone else finished it off - literally) is a completely inept attempt at ironic pulp noir dialog but misses it by a mile. Hopper, Walken and Oldman are stuck with overwrought nonsense to chew their way through.

The spoof overdone violence was done better by Monty Python's version of Peckinpah. The portrayal of Mafia was tired, leaning on funny accents and slapstick, and looked sad and dated in comparison to any Scorsese movie, The Godfather or The Sopranos.

The two leads try hard to portray an unjustifiable transition from someone who is far to nice to make it as a call girl (a strained and unnecessary salacious piece of plotting anyway), who is suddenly able to overcome James Gandolfini with a corkscrew, and a mild mannered guy who works in a shop, who becomes an ultra-violent maniacal killer who goes on a killing spree out of petty jealousy spurred on by the ghost of Elvis for no discernible reason except a vaguely 50s road trip nostalgia which fails to sustain enough to give the film some ambience.

You can guess the entire movie by simply reading a plot synopsis and watching the trailer, no need at all to use up 90 minutes on it.

All the teenagers that collect guns are going to like this movie but for me was pretty bad, boring and too violent, blood everywhere I didn´t enjoy at all this movie, I don´t understand whats the big deal also I didnt like any of the characters. Quarantino is not the best writter and likes blood to much, is not a movie for everybody, I should add that has too many bullets and could have been done much better with less blood and violence, but is Quarantino, this also give me an excuse to look for better movies and choose more carefully. My advice skip this movie and look for something better, is a waste of time.

Terrible in every way. not funny at all. the action is completely useless. didn't care about the story. the music was disgusting. i shoulda went with my gut and turned it off early on. it was so difficult to get thru (1 viewing)

This is the stupidest movie I've watched in years. I even got angry at my boyfriend for recommending it.

I think I hate anything to do with Tarantino. I saw Reservoir Dogs once and liked it so I've kept trying but he just seems like a childish man who grew up watching really bad 1970's movies but actually LIKED them. I'm the same age as him and those films were REALLY BAD and not even funny in a B-movie kind of way. Take the movie Shaft as an example. It was a terrible, stupid movie full of bad acting and the only good thing was the Isaac Hayes song 'Shaft', and that's IT -- NOTHING else about the film is any good at all and ANYTHING from the 70's that's labelled as 'Blaxploitation' is just pure rubbish. Except for maybe the Apollo moon missions, 1970's in general was a really bad time to be alive. Yes there was 'some' good music here and there but cocaine and disco music was also really big so it was a WEIRD time.

Anyhow this True Romance movie is pure rubbish. Truly, don't waste your time.

Tarantantino begins his rush at notoriety by condemning millions of young people to fans and some to followers. His genius could better have been turned toward fascinating youth toward taking the new technology toward the power of truth and goodness.