A decent crime movie. Ewan McGregor makes a charismatic heavy-duty criminal with an inevitable intellectual side expressed through chess. The film gives him a chance to show his strengths as an actor. Slightly ropey plot (the chess again) and some A-Team style action scenes with plenty of bullets being sprayed around without apparent casualties. The central romance is pretty unbelievable- where does this attraction come from? - but it was an enjoyable bit of Aussie escapism, and the nasty Australian prison where the action starts came across as more believable than the US counterparts that usually form the backdrop for films like this. One to watch when you want some crime stuff, and enjoy.
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True Romance
(1993)
Great film but - that problematic scene now detracts...
15 November 2022
The everyday dialogue laced with humour coming from Tarantino-involved films is the best part of them for me and True Romance is a great hi-energy movie with plenty of snappy lines. But (and this is now looking at it from 2022) the reason it scores 6 for me is that problematic Christopher Walken/Dennis Hopper scene. The dialogue there is so full on that it breaks through the screen and have you thinking about whether you should be enjoying watching the movie, or taking more from it, or analysing the issues stemming from the dialogue. I suspect it wasn't intended to do that, but the impact of it for me is that it detracts from a great movie by making you think too much.
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