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Who said romance was dead?

Advantages: Original, fast paced, a multitude of stars
Disadvantages: Too violent, swearing

True Romance is a fantastic film which boasts an all-star cast including the likes of Christopher Walken, Christian Slater, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman amongst others and the film is filled with such colourful characters and indeed dialogue which provides a somewhat memorable movie. The plot is that Chrisitan Slater is an affable and well-meaning comic book clerk who goes out on a date with a hooker, played by Patricia Arquette, and they both fall ...
...chemistry between the two stars in the film, and they set out on a wild road trip after Slater kills Drexyl, Arquette's former pimp and coming into possession of some narcotics owned by the Mob. Oldman hams it superbly as the somewhat larger than life and colourful pimp and rarely has there been such a character in a film who is so obnoxious, so unbelievably vile with no redeeming characteristics whatsoever that we cannot help but cheer when he meets ...

Boothegoose 10.05.2006 · Read full review
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Review of True Romance (Director's Cut) (DVD)

Naturally Great

Advantages: A great story and the acting is brilliant.
Disadvantages: Some stange camera angles are adopted which might annoy others.

This film was released in 1994 and instantly become one of the most controversial films on the screen at the time. The movie displays some very violent and sexual scenes. The film was orginally written by Quentin Tarantino (it was the second movie that he wrote) but he couldn't get the script on to the big screen. Some time later after Tarantino had made it with Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, a director called Oliver Stone took the script, had ...
...has a very different style of directing to Tarantino, but he does the script justice (even if Tarantino was not a fan). The film stars Woody Harrelson, as Mickey Knox, and Juliette Lewis, as Mallory Knox. The two lovers are traumatised by their childhood pasta and embark on a psychotic killing spree. The media turns them into legends and soo everyone knows who they are and they build up quite a fan base. The pair get caught and are brought to justice, ...

ion_ 18.08.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Natural Born Killers (DVD)

Come on, Wesley. Do that roundhouse again!

Advantages: Entertaining action
Disadvantages: Nothing special

...Why I decided to watch Passenger 57 a few nights before, then, I'll never know. Probably not the best film to watch if you're about to fly! The film focuses on John Cutter (Wesley Snipes), a former International Airport Security Manager, who is coerced into coming back into the business by Tom Sizemore, now a bigwig in the antiterrorism business. Cutter finds himself on a plane when the FBI decide a last minute transfer for plane hijacker Charles ...
...boxes. Passenger 57 is currently available from amazon.co.uk for £4.98. However, I would say it's the kind of film that is best off watching on TV whenever you see it pop up. It's a fun, easy to watch action film that doesn't try to do too much: just entertain. ...

pmcds 13.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Passenger 57 (DVD)

Not Exactly Valentine's Day

Advantages: A-list ensemble cast, tarantino script, great action scenes
Disadvantages: Occassionally over-graphic

This film from 1993, directed by Tony Scott (previous works such as 'Top Gun' and Crimson Tide') and written by the universally known Quentin Tarantino. It is a tension filled and action packed movie with some really poignant and occasionally chilling sequences. The story centres around Clarence Worley (Christian Slater of 'Murder in the First' and 'Broken Arrow') a comic book store employee with a passion for Sonny Cheeba kung-fu movies and Elvis ...
...marathon in a cinema. Here he meets Alabama (Patricia Arquette of Stigmata.) She is a happy, young southern girl and they immediately hit it off. After the inevitable night-time events, Clarence awakes to find Alabama crying and she confesses she is a call girl hired by Clarence's boss as a birthday present. As she's crying obviously, the two already mean more than that to each other and are married the next morning. This is only the first five minutes ...

BZ2886 06.06.2008 · Read full review
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Review of True Romance (DVD)

War, war, war!

Advantages: Two of the best current war films combined, tons of great actors.
Disadvantages: Only for war fans.

...recommended. Let's start with Tears of the Sun. Starring one of my favourite actors (Bruce Willis) the film follows a team of American soldiers fighting in the jungles of Africa. It's the usual story of generic warlord slaughtering his own people, and the heroic Americans running in to save them, yet there's a twist. The Americans are there to save their own people, not the natives. So Bruce and his team are left with a decision: evacuate their ...
...them before I'd recommend watching Tears of the Sun first. ToTS is a great film, but it lacks somewhat compared to Black Hawk Down. If you like action and modern war films, this is a fantastic package for you. If you have a home cinema then this is a definet must. Quality stuff, highly recommended. ...

SteveVenezia 04.11.2005 · Read full review
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