True Romance [Blu-ray]

Like any other Quentin Tarantino-scripted film, True Romance is a wild amalgamation of a number of different B-movie genres. In this story, romance films, road movies and gangster flicks come together in the story of a lonely, comic-book geek Clarence (Christian Slater) who falls in love and marries a prostitute named Alabama (Patricia Arquette). Clarence tries to make peace with her pimp (Gary Oldman), but winds up killing him and accidently picks up a suitcase full of cocaine, mistaking it for Alabama's clothes. With the mob on their trail, the couple hits the road with the intent of selling the cocaine in Los Angeles and retiring to South America with their profits. Tony Scott directs with style, smoothing out some of the edges--he changed the original ending of the film--but leaving the quirky humor and intense violence intact. The result is a wildly entertaining ride, filled with bizarre humor and intense action, as well as great cameos from Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, Val Kilmer, Bronson Pinchot, Chris Penn, Brad Pitt and Samuel L. Jackson.