An excellent film, original in unoriginal qualities.

Rating: 8/10 (26 September 2012)

This is obviously a film reviewed and criticised thousands of times due to the popularity of it since release. For a movie created a year before I was born to still be hugely popular and one of the most known films of all time is a great achievement. Tarantino has continually supplied the demand for a shockingly violent, highly exciting and sometimes chronologically backwards movies. With Pulp Fiction though I think after creating a masterpiece like Reservoir Dogs he had to keep a similar theme to maintain his name in cinema, before he could get away with directing Kill Bill and Inglorious Basterds which though both brilliant films come into their own story wise. There is also some admittance and speculation that Tarantino is not an 'Original' Director because he is inspired by less known Japanese and other foreign directors but despite this I think he really comes into his own in this film. The only thing that bothers me with this film is how similar it is to Reservoir Dogs, the two year gap between the two films doesn't leave much creative space I'll admit but it almost feels like Tarantino has pressured himself into making a film so similar that it is at the same level as Reservoir Dogs.