Thank god Mr. T saved the best for last.

Rating: 9/10 (24 July 2006)

OK, where to begin? First, why did it take soooo long to see this movie? I have no idea, I guess I see to many of the latest flicks and don't pay a lot of attention to stuff that's more than 5 years old. The other reason must be that this flick is less on TV than Forrest Gump for instance. I've seen Gump ages ago, but Pulp just dodged and dodged my proximity. Who knows, maybe I was afraid of the disappointment of seeing 'the best of the best' and then begin to wonder what's left?
Now I'm not wondering what's left, just why was the movie that different from my expectations? I just expected something... bigger. A bigger, more important plot. I won't get into the details, but it evolves around a group of small criminals, who's lives change because of a few incidents. Nothing really that big. If we get to certain characters, like Uma Thurman for instance, it's a pretty insignificant character. The same I felt for Harvery Keitel. Now really for a film on this level you don't expect your characters to go dry. But the fact is that some of the actors didn't do that much for the film at all. Just the opposite of what you've heard from your friends (or suspected from the film poster).
An hour and a half or more into the movie I started to wonder if this is it? People consider this to be the single best crime/thriller of the 90's and so far it hasn't been all that. As it's already well known, Tarantino likes to make his films feel nonlinear. But still, we get the best for last, ending up exactly where we stared. My favorite part of the film. The best laughs and thrills were in my opinion from those scenes.
Someone once wrote: 'We don't judge films on what they are, but how they are about it'. And that's the thing with Pulp Fiction. I mean there are hundreds of films with drugs involved, gun shooting, gangsters, all sorts of violence and just what in the world makes this one so significant? And a famous saying goes: 'The devil is in the details' and so is Pulp. And all I can say is: Just freakin' see it already!
......... -5/5 .........