Shallow grave

Rating: 5/10 (13 October 1998)

Pulp Fiction is a smooth, well-made and extremely shallow piece of work. It is basically a kind of black comedy about unsympathetic murderers who walk around in L.A. talking about foot-massage and $5-milk-shake. It gets boring after 10 minutes. But in the name of justice, I guess I should mention that I used to be quite fond of this movie. The thing is that I watched it on television yesterday, and I realized that the whole movie is utterly superficial. There is absolutely nothing more to it than meets the eye. That makes it quite fun to watch for the first time, but after a while you get to know all the phrases and "cool" set-pieces, and you start looking for something more, something "deeper". But there isn´t. Pulp Fiction is only four years old, but it has already started fading dramatically.