It's Tarantino's gutter poetry that detonates True Romance. This movie is dynamite.
– Peter Travers,
Rolling Stone,
12 May 2001
fresh:
This film's various outrages are committed unapologetically, and are very much in the service of its bizarre story.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
If the romance seldom seems 'true', the spiralling violence (script, Quentin Tarantino) does succeed, in a brutish, cod-Jacobean kind of way.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
rotten:
Provides some amazing encounters, bravura acting turns and gruesome carnage. But it doesn't add up to enough.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
19 Nov 2008
fresh:
If shoot-'em-up, gobble-'em-down movies like The Fugitive and Jurassic Park are rated PG-13 these days, what does an R-rated action adventure look like? Like True Romance: violent to a fault, glam to the max.