It's hard to over sell a movie that is so supremely confident in writing and direction. Despite an almost audience-annihilating run time of nearly two and a half-hours, it is consistently absorbing.
A scintillating piece of filmmaking, the kind of movie you look forward to seeing again even as you're watching it, and an extraordinary response to both the Dogs-Is-Overrated brigade and the He'll-Never-Top-His-Debut sceptics.
Pulp Fiction is nothing short of a masterpiece! This is my favorite film of all time! It's not only because it has memorable characters, razer-sharp humor, beautifully written dialogue and intriguing character stories, it's because this is the film that made me want to make movies one day! Quentin Tarantino, you are a master at your craft! This is brilliant, perfectly acted film that all film lovers owe it to themselves to see!
Very satisfying. Classic storytelling, modern techniques. And the images: This movie has embedded so many strange and new mental pictures in my head that I'm not able to shake free. Yet, neither would I want to be free.
Like "Citizen Kane," Pulp Fiction is constructed in such a nonlinear way that you could see it a dozen times and not be able to remember what comes next.
The writer-director appears to be straining for his effects. Some sequences, especially one involving bondage harnesses and homosexual rape, have the uncomfortable feeling of creative desperation, of someone who's afraid of losing his reputation scrambling for any way to offend sensibilities. [14 Oct 1994]
Vincent : I ain't saying it's right. But you're saying a foot massage don't mean nothing, and I'm saying it does. Now look, I've given a million ladies a million foot massages, and they all meant something.
I'm about to say the words that no one dares saying: Pulp Fiction ****. Look, I can like films with just talking. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is one of my favorite films, and that's all they do. But at least in that movie, what they were talking about was interesting and funny. Pulp Fiction is neither. It's just people talking with nothing to back it up. Not even the outrageous and shocking scenes don't hit that hard. You don't care about anything, you don't laugh, you don't get excited, you don't feel ANYTHING. At least the plot comes around in an interesting way and there are some memorable moments. But one is for sure. I don't believe this movie is one of the greatest films of all-time.