The "film noir" is alive and kicking. Thanks Quentin.

Rating: 10/10 (31 May 2000)

If you are sick and tired of the pathetic Holliwood crime movie- full of special effects but overall repetitive and with poor characterization and sense of humor-this is the movie you have got to watch. Quentin doesn't shoot this movie simply because he wants to provide us good entertainment, but also because he wants to pay a tribute to the great tradition of films noir. And he does this in an impeccable way. In Pulp Fiction the bad guys are nastier than ever before, and even the police are given to pure brutality ( cannot say more, watch it). The camera work is probably the best I have ever seen for a variety of reasons. First of all Tarantino uses a hyper-sensitive camera film which has the effect of making the colors brighter , so that the characters and the setting seem really to belong to a pulp book. Besides some scenes, such as the one of the injection, are very ingenuous and original, and I really appreciated such creativity especially vis-a-vis the repetitiveness of many modern crime movies. Finally, the non-linear plot of pulp fiction is simply amazing. WIth its numerous flash-backs and flash-forwards it contributes to keep your adrenaline high (especially in light of the fact that until two-third of the movie it is very hard to follow the plot), but at the end everything pieces together and you feel as content as when you solve a Rubrik's cube. As far as the acting is concerned, this is also of very high quality since all the actors seem very convincing (particularly John Travolta, Uma Thurman and Bruce Willis), and they manage to alternate ultra violent parts with very humorous lines ( Do I look like a bitch? Then why are you trying to f**k me like a bitch) Overall, I rate Pulp FIction as 9.5, 10 . Not only it is the best movie by Tarantino but probably one of the best film noir ever.