Yet another variation on the "lovers on a crime spree" theme, this was the first movie written by Quentin Tarantino, in part made of elements out of a frustrated project called My Best Friend's Birthday which he attempted while still working as a video store clerk. It suffers from the same unevenness his stories have ever shown on other's hands -- Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers aside --, but the screenplay itself, all in all, is a far cry from his best work. (At least, the chronologically reorganized screenplay used by director Tony Scott.) Both the prologue and the scene with the hero's father and the evil henchman stand out, but there isn't much more -- and each of them would be perfected in Reservoir Dogs.
With Christian Slater as the hero (a more handsome version of the author), Patricia Arquette as the only girl in the world who thinks he's cool, and a moving Dennis Hopper as his father. By the way, the henchman is played by Christopher Walken. 6/10
1 December 2005
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