I like Tarantino, but... Cleaver but over-rated....

Rating: 7/10 (1 October 2001)

This was a pretty good black comedy. So much has been written about this movie and so many people like it that it is hardly worth adding my two cents. I found the sick humor to be a little over-the-top for me and although this is a cleaver movie with some fine performances, I find a good deal of it to be both obnoxious and gimmicky. Perhaps, only the Matrix is as over-rated as this film. Interesting movie which I would recommend to anyone who likes off-beat movies. I vastly prefer Resevoir Dogs and Desperado. I might add that this was an incredibly influential film and it still influences how films are being made today. The list of "film noir" movies that were influenced by Pulp Fiction are almost too numerous to mention. One of these was THINGS TO DO IN DENVER WHEN YOU ARE DEAD which I liked better than its' predecessor. Being very original, PULP FICTION was seen as a "breath of fresh air". It became a Hollywood fad to "love" this movie. It isn't that great. I give it a 7. I've seen better, and I've seen much better.