Brilliant!

Rating: 9/10 (2 June 2000)

This film is in so many peoples top ten and for a very a hundred good reasons.
There is not 1 story but 3, effortlessly intertwined like a woven fabric.
The first involves Tim Roth and Amanda Plumber as rather amateur gangsters who have an unusual idea for a heist.
The second and dialogue-wise, the best, has John Travolta and Samuel L Jackson as hit men who experiance a few unexpected problems.
The third has Bruce Willis in his coolest role as a boxer whose payday has come.
What is unusual is that these three story lines cross over each other at certain points and flick backwards and forwards in time, yet at no point (if you are really paying attention) are you confused.
What makes this film a cut above all films of the 1990's is the dialogue.
Above all it's a Black Comedy, a very black comedy and thats what makes it so cool. To be able to get a laugh out of an audience when you have just shown a needle plunging into someones chest takes some doing.
This is the film that made Travolta for a second time, but for me the stars where Uma Thurman and Harvey Keitel. Keitel as The Wolf is just magnificent, my favourite part of the film is "The Connie Situation" with Keitel as the fast talking fast thinking solver of "Problems".
Uma Thurman is supercool as the gangsters mol who needs a "Night out".
I could go on for another 1000 words praising this film so if you are one of the few unfortunates that haven't seen it I think you've by now got the message.