Rabu, 14 Juli 2010

Movie Review: True Romance - Years Ahead Of Its Time

In a movie that catapulted Quintin Tarantino to fame and stardom, "True Romance" is a film that contains fantastic action, acting, screen writing, and several memorable characters. If you haven't seen this movie in a while, you should check it out at your earliest convenience. This movie pretty much set the standard for dialogue based action movies.

Our movie starts out with a few regular characters that could be any one of us. There is a drug deal gone bad. There is a violent shoot out that leaves everybody dead, and a stack of money, and a bag of illegal drugs sitting out in the open. The young boy happens across the scene, and naturally takes advantage of the situation. The movie is called "True Romance," because he happens to be in love, and broke. So he and his girl decide to take the money, and head out west to start a new life together.

Before they leave, they stop off at his fathers place of work. His father is a security guard, and an ex police officer. The son figures his father still has connections, and will know of any police or gangsters are after the money. He hasn't heard any information, so the kid and his girl think they are free and clear and head out to California.

However, all is not well. The cash is the property of a powerful gangster. It doesn't take long for the powerful gangster to find the boys unlucky father. After unsuccessfully trying try his son's whereabouts out of him, they kill him. This is likely one of the best scenes in the movie, as the boys father, played fantastically by Dennis Hopper, gives one of the most infamous speeches regarding Italian history prior to being killed.

The mobsters chase the boy and his girl to California, and the chase is on. The boy decides to sell the drugs to a movie producer, who in turn hopes to use the drugs to seduce the girl he is in love with. In a final battle scene that is both hilarious and an epic piece of film making, we finally figure out what is going to happen to the boy, his girl, and the drugs.

This stunning masterpiece is filled with now famous actors that command millions of dollars per performance. Brad Pitt, Val Kilmer just to name a couple all had hilarious roles in this fantastic movie. This movie has everything you could ever hope for in a film, as well as classic scenes and dialogues that you can refer to again and again.Directed by Tony Scott, and written by the now world famous Quintin Tarantino, this movie set the gold standard for dialogue rich action movies. We highly recommend that you make this film an addition to your DVD library.

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