10 out of 10 for Entertainment

Rating: Null/10 (12 December 1998)

Is this the greatest movie of all time? Probably not, but it is a GREAT movie. I have seen a lot of comments about the film's morality, but a film should first of all entertain.
What I hate about a movie is if it is too predictable you know what is going to happen after 15 minutes or I feel cheated if the plot is too convoluted purely to confuse me. Pulp Fiction does neither of these but just gives you enough changes of pace to keep you guessing how the stories are going to come together. And how they do! When you see Vincent and Jules at the diner for the last scene you just KNOW what's going to happen next but Tarantino keeps us dangling with some really funny dialogue about bacon when all we're waiting for is the inevitable confrontation.
This film is a collection of classic scenes and funny one-liners (the adrenalin-shot scene has to be my favourite). To look at whether this is a moralistic film is the wrong way to look at it. It's never going to be as uplifting as, say, The Shawshank Redemption, but it never pretends to that kind of film. But it does have depth. After you watch it more than once you start to think of the "What If's"
Probably the most profound is the mix of Faith in God versus Faith in Superstition. When Jules says that he felt the touch of God, was this a true warning to him and would HE have been shot instead of Vincent if he hadn't changed his ways. Or was God trying to save Pumpkin and Honey Bunny through Jules? Or was Vincent the one that God was trying to warn but he didn't feel the touch of God and so lost his life and possibly his soul to the Devil. The briefcase's combination is '666' so there is definite imagery of Hell here.
And Butch has Faith in Superstition with the dubious history of the lucky watch. What if he never went back for the watch? Would he have ever escaped the hitmen looking for him? And was it the fact that he had just put the lucky watch on that helped him get the better of Vincent? And what seems like a really unlucky encounter when he runs down Marcellus and then gets taken hostage by the shopkeeper actually gives him probably the only chance to wipe the slate clean by saving Marcellus himself. So if the watch really was lucky, what more luck could you ask for??
A great movie and 10 out of 10 for entertainment (and not just the first time you watch it - tho that was the best for all the surprises).