Outstanding debut film

Rating: 10/10 (22 May 2019)

A crew of hard-cases deal with the aftermath of a heist gone bloodily wrong and with the growing conviction that one of their number is a rat. Quentin Tarantino's debut film has all of the hallmarks associated with the now famous director: nonlinear story-telling, extreme violence and profanity, an undercurrent of blacker-than-black humour, and multiple obscure (and often non-sequitur) pop culture references. The story, script and cast are all outstanding and although the film was not to everyone's taste, it was a milestone in independent film-making and has held up remarkably well over the ensuing decades.