Pulp Fiction

RATING

INFO

Year: 1994

Running Lenght: 2 hrs. 30 minutes

Rated: R (language, violence)

Genre: crime/drama/action/comedy

Cast: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Uma Thurman, Harvey Kietel

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary

"Wow" was all I could say while I was watching this movie. Pulp Fiction is the most original and memorable movie ever made. The images in this movie stay in your head forever. How could you forget all those memorable scenes? It's a film like no other. It re-invents the word "cool".

Quentin Tarantino proves himself to be one of the greatest directors and screenwrites of all time. Pulp Fiction is amazingly stylish, visualy superb and perfectly written. Tarantino improves on his other masterpiece, Reservoir Dogs. He has improved his directing skills, yet his direction is still original and unique.

The performance are superb without an exception. John Travolta and Sam Jackson both give the best performances of their lives, which also rank amongst the best all-time performances in film. Uma Turman and Bruce Willis are great as well, and the supporting cast does an awesome job. Actually, thinking back it's hard for me to find an actor in Pulp Fiction who was less than "great". I really wish Tarantino would take bigger parts in his movies. He is multi-talented and should take advantage of his acting skills.

I think Pulp Fiction has the best soundtrack ever. Watching the movie, I noticed there wasn't one song that I didn't like. Some of my favortie songs like "Misirlou", "Son of a Preacher Man", "You Never Can Tell", "Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon", "Flowers on the Wall" and more are in it. I can undoubtedly say Tarantino has the best music taste of all movie directors.

Perhaps the only thing that keeps Pulp Fiction from becoming my all-time favorite is its relatively slow pace. Now it's not like the movie is boring, but a movie like this needs to move faster. However this is a very minor flaw. Since it's realease Pulp Fiction has been ripped-off and copied a lot of times. The best Pulp Fiction-like film (I wouldn't call it a ripoff) is Go, a great movie that I watched recently. Now, Go may be a faster paced movie which is good, but it simply lacks so many things that made Pulp Fiction great! The characters, the plot, the stylish direction, and, well, the coolness of Pulp Fiction can never be matched by another movie.