Audacious, Iconoclastic, with Vitality to Spare!

Rating: Null/10 (20 October 2002)

One of the best movies of the 1990s is probably the most unique in the sense that it stands by itself in its audacity and vitality. Quentin Tarantino is an auteur of the 90s and has proven a masterful director for great ensemble casts, an insightful well-developed script, inspiring and striking camera angles and cinematography, and has developed a new genre of gangsters, crime, and mystery with an array of violence, drugs, sex, and fast-paced action. John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson are dynamic and deliver powerful performances as a duo of hitmen, Bruce Willis is compelling (in one of his finest roles) as a prize-fighter and struggling boxer, and Uma Thurman is memorable as a sexy drug addict. All these lowlifes are connected in one way or another to big time mafia leader Ving Rhames who happens to be Thurman's husband. Movie is also unique in the sense that it is broken up into different scenes that don't seem to go in order from beginning to end. Obviously the movie is not for all tastes for its dehumanizing and repulsive theme which is evident in every single scene. Nominated for several Oscars including Best Picture, Pulp Fiction is a mezmerising ride. 9/10