SOURCE: "Gunfight at the Hokey Corral," in Los Angeles Times, September 10, 1993, pp. F1, F8.

In the following review, Turan offers negative assessment of True Romance.

It is hard to say what is more dispiriting about True Romance, the movie itself or the fact that someone somewhere is sure to applaud its hollow, dime-store nihilism and smug pseudo-hip posturing as a bright new day in American cinema.

In truth this latest example of Hollywood's growing fascination with Bad Boy Chic (the kind of films where the men are violence-prone misfits and the women gasp and coo) has all the originality of a paper cup. A derivative dead end that pushes familiar genre themes way past absurdity. True Romance is anything but truthful and not even remotely romantic.

Starring Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette as lowlifes in jeopardy and in love, True Romance also features cameos by Dennis Hopper, Gary...