Looking back, it’s hard to separate the film from the phenomenon - but
with the paraphernalia gone, it's important to assess what remains.
The flawless script provides a narrative that tantalisingly
intertwines as three separate pulp stories coalesce and separate. A
tour de force of LA lowlife, it’s the perfect pastiche of classic
Americana. EVERYTHING about it is iconic, inscribing itself
indelibly on the memory - from the dialogue’s verbal verve, to the
impeccable soundtrack, betraying Tarantino as a connoisseur of cult.
His career may have withered, but he bequeathed us one of the best films
of the 1990s, now ripe for a new generation to discover.
