Dialogue shines in this creative bloodbath, but where's the potatoes?

Rating: 8/10 (14 June 1999)

If Pulp Fiction is going to be remembered for anything one hundred years from now, it will definitely be for the unique intellectual conversations John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson engage in before they blast their next assignment. It will also be memorable for bringing Travolta back to Hollywood with a bang (pardon the pun). I even might recall such terms as "dead n***** storage" and "Royale with cheese." The only thing I cannot understand is where there is enough genius or wonder about this film to declare it as one of the top 100 best films from the AFI. I'm not arguing that Pulp Fiction is not a terribly original and thoughtful trilogy, but why the huge amount of critical hype? (And by the way, I prefer to call it a Quarter Pounder with cheese.) Rating: Three stars.