Review of Pulp Fiction

I am not ashamed to say it. This may very well be Quentin Tarentino's very own Citizen Kane. This is LEGENDARY film making of the highest caliber. I have sat through this movie countless times and never have gotten board by it. In fact, I always seem to find and appreciate a new aspect when i watch it. I don't even know where to begin when it comes to praising this film. Directing, writing, acting, cinematography, are all flawless and beyond reproach. I really dig the style and mood this film generates and absolutely love the dialog. Tarentino and Roger Avery wrote a script so insightful and intriguing that even mundane topics like "Fast food in Europe" or "The merits of bacon" are impossible to ignore. These guys could make reading a tax audit engrossing! Along with the script, i have to re-credit Tarentino's direction. I am convinced that in anybody Else's hand this would not have been nearly as great a film. They camera angles the scene shots and oh yes, the editing, are so innovative that they are beyond words. The cast. John Travolta gave, i think, his best performance ever as the drug addict hit-man Vincent Vega. Samuel L. Jackson, who is brilliant in any performance, brings out new dimensions in acting excellence here as Jules Winfield. Uma Thurman is breathtaking as Mia Wallace, the coke head who does drugs because her life is so superficial she thinks she cant feel anything without them. Bruce Willis, as boxer Butch Coolage, commands the screen with a reserved but seething intensity. Havey Keitel has a great scene stealing moment as the problem solving expert Mr. Wolf. I could go on and on but you will not find one week performance from anyone in this movie.

How this movie did not win best picture in 1994, instead losing to "Forrest Gump" is way beyond me. Don't get me wrong, Gump was a good movie but to me, it couldn't hold a candle to Fiction.