dark humor, masterful storytelling

Rating: Null/10 (19 November 2001)

Directed by Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction, is told in the same discontinuous chronology as his first work Reservoir Dogs. Through four separate and seemingly unrelated stories Tarantino succeeds in telling an epic story of mobsters, a gold watch, and redemption. John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson are convincing as two mob hit men caught in a very interesting day, and their target Butch Coolidge, played by Bruce Willis is a man of vicious tenacity who desires to know what it means `to kill a man.' While the subject matter is relatively heavy, Tarantino's witticism and dark humor help its delivery.