Quentin Tarantino’s ‘magnum opus’ is streaming now on Prime Video (Picture: Linda R Chen/Miramax/Buena Vista/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock)
A ‘masterpiece’ thriller from Quentin Tarantino has arrived on Amazon Prime Video.
Released in 1994, Pulp Fiction is often considered one of the greatest crime films ever made, as well as a ‘masterpiece’ of cinema.
It boasts an all-star cast including John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth, Ving Rhames, and Uma Thurman.
The cult classic crime film tells the story of several interconnected characters all tied together by crime boss Marsellus Wallace (Rhames), including hitmen Vincent Vega (Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Jackson), Marsellus’ wife Mia (Thurman), boxer Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis), and more.
It has been considered Tarantino’s ‘magnum opus’ and was the first production fully financed by Miramax.
Pulp Fiction was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won the Palme d’Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.
Pulp Fiction follows several interconnected characters played by an all-star cast (Picture: Miramax/Everett/REX/Shutterstock)
It has appeared on several critics’ lists of the greatest films ever made, and was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as ‘culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.’
The film holds a mightily impressive 92% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with the critics’ consensus reading: ‘Injecting its compendium of crime tales with the patois of everyday conversation, Pulp Fiction is a cinematic shot of adrenaline that cements writer-director Quentin Tarantino as an audacious purveyor of killer kino.’
In their review, The Times dubbed Pulp Fiction ‘controversial yet award-worthy combination of gorgeous dialogue, genre-literacy, guns and gore.’
The Chicago Sun-Times said: ‘Quentin Tarantino is the Jerry Lee Lewis of cinema, a pounding performer who doesn’t care if he tears up the piano, as long as everybody is rocking.’
Austin Chronicle wrote: ‘Rarely have I left a movie theatre more thrilled or invigorated as I did after leaving Pulp Fiction.’
Washington Post branded it ‘Brilliant and brutal, funny and exhilarating, jaw-droppingly cruel and disarmingly sweet,’ while the New York Times said it was ‘A triumphant, cleverly disorienting journey through a demimonde that springs entirely from Mr. Tarantino’s ripe imagination, a landscape of danger, shock, hilarity and vibrant local color.’
It won several awards and is widely considered one of the greatest films ever made (Picture: Mega Productions/REX/Shutterstock)
Tarantino had one huge problem with the film following its success (Picture: Mega Productions/REX/Shutterstock)
The Toronto Star surmised: ‘It is everything you have heard, and many things you haven’t. Audacious, outrageous, indulgent, extreme. Mischievously brutal. Giddily visceral. Wildly enthusiastic. More fun than a barrel of monkeys. Mad, bad and dangerous to know.’
Speaking to the ReelBlend podcast in 2022, Tarantino revealed his ‘biggest problem’ with the classic film.
‘My biggest problem with Pulp Fiction is that I just don’t care for the direction of it that much,’ he explained.
Comparing it to his 1997 follow-up film Jackie Brown, he continued: ‘Opposed to Pulp Fiction, it wasn’t trying to blow your mind’, and instead, ‘It would become more like your comfortable friend.’
However, he did eventually look at the film in a more positive light, adding: ‘I hold on to things longer than other people would have because they wouldn’t have the confidence in my material that I have.’
Pulp Fiction is streaming now on Amazon Prime Video
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