a story of mobsters, robbers, a boxer and a don's wife intertwines.

Rating: 10/10 (9 October 2016)

In one word, brilliant.In 2 words, f*cking brilliant. The film is a masterpiece in cinema history. The direction,screenplay and of course the classic dialogues makes up to one good film. The icy wit, the connoisseur soundtrack, the violence (of which the N-bombs are a part), the extended dialogue riffing, the trance-like unreality, the inspired karmic balance of the heroin scene and the adrenaline scene, the narrative switchbacks that allow John Travolta to finish the film both alive and dead, the spectacle of him being made to dance badly, but also sort of brilliantly  above all else, the sheer directionless excitement that only Tarantino can conjure. In 1994 it broke over my head like a thunderclap, and in 1990s Britain this touchstone of cool seemed to extend its dangerous influence everywhere: movies, fiction, journalism, media, fashion, restaurants, you name it.