Best Film of the Nineties

Rating: Null/10 (18 April 2003)

PULP FICTION(1994) **** John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Harvey Keitel, Christopher Walken, Eric Stoltz, Ving Rhames, Rosanna Arquette, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Peter Greene,Frank Whaley, Julia Sweeney, Quentin Tarantino. Propolsive in-your-face salute to film noir with a Nineties slant with savvy filmmaking from auteur Tarantino interweaving three tales of crime, sex, greed and O. Henry sensibility mixed with Murphy's Law. Outstanding in every sense with memorable performances by all particularly dim-witted hit man Travolta (Best Actor nominee in his second comeback) and Bible-verse speaking partner Jackson (Best Supporting Actor nominee) and a beefed up and nervy turn by Willis. Wickedly clever and outrageously funny with some truly surprising moments of unease, carefully handled violence and arguably cinema's worst blind date ever with kudos to an adrenaline enhanced kitschy Thurman (Best Supporting Actress nominee). Winner of The Palmme d'Orr at Cannes and Oscar winner for Tarantino (also nominated for directing and Best Picture) for Best Original Screenplay with Roger Avary. One of the decade's best.