The Dawn...

Rating: 10/10 (6 August 2001)

... of a new wave in movies, of the "slacker-with-a-gun-low-budget-oldies-ridden-soundtrack" genre, of a concept of independent cinema and of the perception of the new values and their importance to today's movies. This one started everything from point zero, shuffled it again, left everyone baffled with the genius that can be extracted of what can be a banal setting and banal characters at first sight. This movie also shows how a completely new type of script can be born and how it can be more than half of a movie's success (just check out the quotes section). And it is also an example of how much you can play and establish a cult around a single, two-and-a-half-hour-long set of frames (and check the trivia section, perhaps the longest in the entire IMDb). A complete set of influences started here, and therefore its many ground-breaks were mirrored and copied countless times, like rescuing decaying actors and trying to use smart lines to make up for plot holes. And its position in the all-time-best list of IMDb, its collection of awards, its new face and freshness all make a great movie, which benefits from the marriage of clever directing, great script, striking editing and incredible actors rescued from the limbo (John Travolta's evolution emerges as the biggest standout, but his performance is easily overtaken by Samuel L. Jackson's religious killer Julius or Uma Thurman's fantastic stylish drug-addict Mia Wallace). A winner on all aspects, this movie is, no doubt one of the best of all time, and deserves its place in the podium. From this movie on, anything was not the same.