True Romance (1993)

I saw this a long time ago when it first came out, and I wanted to check it out a second time since they released a director's cut on DVD. The cast is unreal: Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Samuel L. Jackson, Val Kilmer, Christopher Walken, Michael Rapaport, James Gandolfini, and Tom Sizemore. Wow.

Despite all this, the movie never reaches a Pulp Fiction, The Professional (Leon), Natural Born Killers, Freeway, The Salton Sea, Fight Club, Out of Sight, or Bound level. It has moments of brilliance, but never quite makes it.

Rating: B-