Where to Begin?

Rating: 10/10 (29 April 2005)

What more is there to say about "Pulp Fiction." Released in 1994, the film was an adrenaline shot to the heart of the film industry. Though the movie payed homage to a variety of film genres and styles (film noir, gangster film, French New Wave), it managed to be unlike anything seen before. Whether you love "Pulp Fiction" or hate it (and I, for one, love it) you can't deny the impact it had on film-making moving forward into the 21st Century. While watching "Pulp Fiction" for the first time, I knew sitting there in the theatre that I was seeing something that would immediately influence movies forever, and it has. I won't bother to summarize the plot, since plot in this movie is only of incidental importance anyway. I won't bother to single out individual performances, since the performances are uniformly excellent. I will save my praise for Quentin Tarantino's audacious attempts to show us something original, daring and experimental and for giving us a welcome break from the stale products Hollywood studios have been churning out for years.
If you're one of the handful of people in the world who haven't yet seen this film, run out and see it now. I can't guarantee you'll like it, but I can guarantee that you'll have a definite opinion about it, and even that is refreshing these days.
Grade: A