Brilliant

Rating: 10/10 (1 May 2002)

Pros: Memorable scenes, memorable characters, humor, score.
Cons: At times too violent, a lot of swear words used.
Critics were split in 1994 deciding what was the best picture that year. Mordern classics such as the Shawshank Redemption, Quiz Show, Forrest Gump, and Pulp fiction marked thier debut. The best, according to the Academy Awards was Gump but the true masterpeice that year was Pulp Fiction. Pulp Fiction was genre defying as is influenced other movies and filmakers notably Paul Thomas Anderson and Guy Ritchie though they haven't been able to top Quentin Tarantino's Brillian film. The best "story" will have to be the one following Bruce Willis as a boxer who does anything to get back his watch. We know the watch is important as there is a rather lenghty and funny narrative of how the watch comes to the hand of Willis. Other memorable characters are portrayed by Samuel Jackson, Quentin Tarantino, Uma thurman and John Travolta.
Premise: Four stories joined over a period of two days featuring druggies, cleaners, mobsters, boxers and a few other shady characters.
Pulp fiction was nominated for seven academy awards and won only one for screen writing. Won the Palm'D or at the cannes film festival.
Grade: 10/10 (Tarantino's best)