Quentin Tarantino's blockbuster is a breathtaking tribute to old dime store novels about small time hoods and dangerous criminals. It features deftly woven plotlines, creating a mythic Los Angeles underworld of drug dealers, molls, affable hitmen, restaurant-robbing lovers, and a boxer out to scam the mob on his last professional bout. This is the film that put John Travolta back on the map as a major box-office draw in the '90s and officially established Samuel L. Jackson as a superstar. It also inspired a seemingly endless slew of imitators.
Directed by Quinten Tarantino - Rated R
Critic Review
Pardon my language, but this was one fucked up movie! I have never seen anything like it, yet I was totally mesmorized by it. It was very interesting, though I could have easily gotten lost. I don't know what it was, but I was strangely attracted to it. I found the actors very entertaining and believeable. Travolta, Jackson, Willis, Thurman, Rhames, Roth, Walken, Keitel, etc. The list goes on of great actors in this unbelieveable film. I enjoyed it the first time I saw it, I enjoyed it the second time I saw it, hell I still enjoy it. I can't explain why it is so good. Perhaps it is because it is so different, so unorthadox. Very few films have made this type of sick, twisted impression. But it was really, really well done. I applaude it. "*****!" "One of the best films of the century!" "You must see this to believe it!"
