Bullets, baddies, and lots of exciting fiction in QT masterpiece

Rating: 9/10 (12 November 2013)

In a hundred years, PF is still gonna be remembered as an ultra cool movie. It's like something QT has ever written and never will again. It's a refreshing wild, exciting movie experience. The movie's brilliant dialogue has you hooked from the word "Go". So many people love Pulp Fiction, but if you asked them what's about, it'd be interesting to hear their answers. In a nutshell it's three stories, it's about losers, fighting the odds, but the losers are characters we become involved about. Some of them we even admire. We have two professional hit men, who cross paths with a pathetic couple of losers, who this time, decide to rob a restaurant. You'll like how this scene pans out. The other loser is Willis, a down on his luck, boxer, who's asked to throw a fight, but good old pride, has him doing the opposite. This is just a cool movie through and through, QT's follow up to 'Dog's' with some of the same attire, though surprisingly not as gory, as compared to 'Dogs', or especially True Romance, or NBK. It's occasional, some of it shocking, esp the 'blowing off head scene' when a sorry shot accidentally goes off from Vince Vega's (John Travolta's) gun, with little expense of remorse for the poor SOB, and The Wolf (a great Harvey Keitel in a great character role) is called upon at short notice to clean up the mess. Travolta deserved his Oscar nomination, as did Jackson (a bloody underrated and fine actor) as his sidekick, Jules. It's a 154 minute thrill ride, (exact same running time as Jackie Brown) amidst style, dancing, burger trivia, injecting, and some ludicrous scenes, one a shootout, others involving Zed and the gimp, that's leads to a reconciliation between Willis, and his rival, head baddie, Marcellas Wallace, (the excellent Ving Rhames) which was another one of the movie's surprises. Walken again appears as a Colonel, delivering a great monologue, involving a watch, hidden protectively, in not the healthiest of storage places. The dancing between JT and UT at the hip burger place, is another unforgettable scene. The story just cruises along, and we just let ourselves be taken along for the ride, up until it's clever, no, not dejavu end. Every performance is as great as the last in a movie hit, that may never ever, ever die. QT's finest moment. Watch.