A non biased review on "one of the best films of all time!"

Rating: 6/10 (28 June 2013)

Tarantino for me is a good director. Not a great director and certainly not the best. Many people I know hail Pulp Fiction as not only Tarantino's best film ever, but the best film of all time.
I like Tarantino. He is a smart writer with a lot of interesting ideas. Some of which i think are better than the others. Pulp fiction contains a lot of those brilliant unique ideas but I feel, fails to put them into practice in order to make an interesting and exciting film.
*Spoilers ahead if you haven't seen the film already go watch it and decide for yourself. Then see if you agree with me after.*
Any good film should have characters that the viewer can care about and be interested in. Now seeing as Pulp Fiction is split in to different stories of different people that is already a hard thing to do. Hard but not impossible. Sin City despite its many faults had me rooting the whole way through hoping that Bruce Willis would be safe and manage to rescue Jessica Alba from the clutches of that strange yellow guy.
Pulp fiction however does not manage the same. After the incredibly smart conversation between Travolta and Jackson in the opening scene I was loving the film. I really liked the writing even if this sort of Philosophical conversation didn't quite fit Travolta's Pony-tailed Hit-man character.
The abrupt switching to Bruce Willis' story then made me almost forget about Travolta all together, so much so that when, who i thought was the main protagonist, gets shot halfway through the film. It didn't really mean anything. I moved on. It wasn't impacting enough for me to feel any sort of emotion. It was like when the wise talking heavy gunner in a Vietnam movie gets shot. You quite liked him. But you can move on without him.
The scene with Harvey Keitel however was brilliant. My favourite part of the film without a doubt. Its just a shame he didn't play more of a part.
Other than characters, I felt that the films real weakness was the lack of any strong plot. Yeah all of the crooks stories manage to inter-wind but i didn't feel that they were interesting enough for that to be the films main selling point. I felt at the end i had quite enjoyed what i just saw but really i could have not seen it and went on with my day.
I personally feel like Pulp Fiction is a film that relies entirely on its Style to try and carry it forward. I will admit, it is a film with a very well written script, great conversation pieces and an incredible cast. It just fails at being anything more than boring.