Tony Scott, alias Blue Boy, alias Mr. Misty, alias I.C. Spots, pursues his calling as a reshaper of traditional screen icons (aviator: Top Gun; racer: Days of Thunder; private eye: The Last Boy Scout) for the MTV generation. Here, working from a script by Quentin Tarantino, alias I.M. Hip, it's lovers on the lam — a comic-store clerk and a runaway call girl (four days on the job), hotly pursued by the mob — but the director swathes these Little People in high-fashion photography, betraying a kind of dandy's distaste for the surrounding squalor. The resulting movie is all attitude, and as such is of chiefly sociological interest, and no small amount of that. The nominal stars, Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette, are hardly more than pack mules. Gary Oldman, meanwhile, makes a cannonball-splash as a marble-eyed, gold-toothed, dreadlocked pimp, a white man who aspires to black; and Brad Pitt has an amusing turn as a doped-up couch potato. They both are lucky to be quickly relieved of duty. With Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken. (1993) — Duncan Shepherd