Quentin Tarantino (“Reservoir Dogs”, “Grindhouse”) can come across as an obnoxious misfit in interviews. However, he has a brilliant understanding of how to make movies work as “Pulp Fiction” shows a lot of stuff I don’t really want to see but the way it is done, is absolutely spectacular.

“Pulp Fiction” tells several different interconnecting tales. We see the lives of mob hit men Vincent Vega (John Travolta “Grease”) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson “Snakes On A Plane”, “xXx”), gangster’s wife Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman “Batman & Robin”), a boxer by the name of Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis “Die Hard”) and two small-time robbers. All of them are some of the scummiest people on Earth.

The characters in this film are highly unpleasant as they swear constantly (perhaps a little too much), are incredibly aggressive, do a lot of drugs, lie, cheat, rape, kill and are only looking out for number one and the film conveys this very effectively. My least favourite character was from John Travolta’s Vincent Vega as he seemed a little bland. The best character was the boxer played by Bruce Willis as he’s the most realistic. Harvey Keitel (“Fingers”), the director himself Quentin Tarantino and Christopher Walken (“Batman Returns”) all have great roles and give good performances. Most of the characters seem very realistic as Tarantino has a real skill for making realistic characters that talk about the things real people talk about.

“Pulp Fiction” is an ugly movie featuring scenes of rape and murder but in its own sick way, it works and is very hypnotic. I truly felt discomforted by observing these individuals and that’s how I should have felt. The only things I really disliked were John Travolta’s performance and I feel the swear words are used a little too much to seem plausible. I think I liked “Reservoir Dogs” a little more but this is another great movie from Tarantino.