Landmark movie

Rating: 8/10 (26 December 2005)

This is the first movie my friend Gary ever took me to see that left me feeling violated afterwards. In this case though, I knew I'd just seen something unbelievable.
The movie has several stories going on that eventually inter-lap. The stories are told out of order, so it takes a fair while to work out what's going on, and only at the end can you properly piece it all together.
Here are some of the great things about the movie:

Revitalised John Travolta's career. He put in a top effort.

Samuel L Jackson's best ever role. He was funny, scary, cool.

Christopher Walken's cameo. Outstanding. Should have got nominated for an Oscar.

Excellent supporting efforts by Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Tim Roth, Harvey Keitel and Quentin Tarantino.

The lowlights were: - The movie got nominated for "Best Movie", but lost to "Forrest Gump", which has to be the biggest injustice ever. Wasn't Forrest Gump just a movie about a guy they digitally inserted into famous historical moments? - Felt the drug use basically glorified drugs, which was a bad move - The "Gimp" scenes. Not really necessary. Off-camera alluding to would have done just fine.
But it's a funny, excellently written, well shot, brilliant movie