Pulp Fiction (1994) - 7.2

Rating: 7/10 (30 June 2019)

Pulp Fiction (1994) - 7.2
Act 1 - 6.7
Act 2 - 7.6
Act 3 - 7.2

Another great opening diner scene just like Reservoir Dogs with great dialogue
Samuel L Jackson is incredible in his interrogation scene with the people who messed with Marsellus Wallace
Then we leave Vega and Jules to see Marsellus Wallace paying off a boxer to lose a fight, Bruce Willis and then Vega and Jules show up with the suitcase
Vega is going to be taking Mia, Marsellus's wife out on a date to keep her company
Movie jumps around a lot with a lot of different and unique characters
Movie takes you into the stylized world of crime and drugs
Tarantino makes a 50's paradise in the diner that Mia and Vega go to
Buscemi as Buddy Holly cameo
Mia and Vega's diner scene is overly long and doesn't amount to much but the dialogue and dance scene are intriguing but overstay their welcome
When they get back to the house Mia finds Vega's coke and is ODing but is brought back with an adrenaline shot at the coke dealers house
They both agree not to tell Marsellus
Uma Thurman has a great performance in this film
Then we jump to Butch, the boxer as a child and we find out his father died in the war and is given a watch by one of his fathers friends
Tarantino never shys away from racist or vulgar language and it adds to the realism of the dialogue and characters
We cut back to Butch as an adult ready for his fight and he doesn't throw it like he was supposed to and now Marsellus is going to go after him
Butch killed the other boxer in the ring and Butch doesn't seem too phased by it
It turns out Butch played Marsellus to get the fix out there so he could take in more money by betting on himself to win and he plans on running away to Knoxville with his winnings and his girlfriend
Scenes with Butch and his girlfriend last way too long and adds to the bloated run time but the main point his that his girlfriend forgot to pack the watch which is most important to him and now he has to go back to his apartment to get the watch where he will be in danger
Vega is waiting at the apartment to kill Butch but is in the bathroom when he arrives and Butch ends up killing Vega instead
Butch then sees Marsellus walking past him at a red light and runs him over in a great scene but Marsellus is ok
They both arrive in a pawn shop where they are both now being held captive in a unsuspected turn
They get locked in some weird sex dungeon with two guys and a gimp and this is just truly an insane situation that is cinematic gold
Butch escapes and saves Marsellus and they kill both their captors in an incredible moment
Butch and Marsellus are now cool and on good terms and Butch and his girlfriend flee
Then we cut back to the Vega and Jules and it is revealed that there was a fourth man in the bathroom who also gets killed after missing every shot which is played off like a miracle that they survive, they then leave with the one black man
Vega accidentally shoots Marvin, the black guy in the head and they have to get the car off the road in another great and unsuspected scene
Movie is told in a nonlinear way which was innovative at the time, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't
Going back to the Vega and Jules storyline takes away the momentum they were building with Butch and Marsellus. Their story seemed finished and had run its course and don't think it was a good idea to go back, still a good but isn't needed
They call in the Wolf to help fix the situation
But this leads all the way back to the diner scene that started the movie which I will say is clever, the movie is pieced together well but could be hard to follow the timeline the first time around
Jules says he is out after all of this after they deliver the case to Marsellus
When the robbery starts Vega is in the bathroom, there's a standoff for the case with Jules and the robbers
Again the scene just seems to drag on too long killing the tension, again still a good scene
Jules lets them go after a long story about him turning a new leaf and the film ends
I like the unsolved mystery of what is in the case

Dialogue of the film in smart and well written and fits the characters well
Well developed characters with a plethora of great performances
Some very creative situations that Tarantino creates giving the viewer quite a few memorable moments
The biggest flaw of the film is that some of the dialogue scenes which is what most of the film is just run on far too long
Movie probably would have been a better watch if they cut out 20 minutes or so and just got to the point of the scene faster
This is my third time watching the film and this is easily the most I have enjoyed it
Cinematography was pretty good and there were some memorable shots like the trunk shot
Overall well made film that is filled with memorable moments and dialogue that just drags on too long