![]() ![]() Keanu Reeves is “F! B! I! Agent!” Johnny Utah, who takes up surfing in order to catch the Ex-Presidents – a gang of robbers who have taken down 27 banks in three years – and their badass “modern savage” leader Bodhi (Patrick Swayze), who use their ill-gotten gains to fund their endless summer. ![]() ![]() But none of those movies even come close to the sky-diving, big-wave surfing, ass-kicking, 100 per cent pure adrenaline ride that is Point Break. Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, Trainspotting, Fight Club… you know, the usual suspects. Point Break (1991)Īs decades go, the 1990s was a golden era for essential cinema. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. If some scripts merely walk you from opening credits to close, this one puts on a dance. Whether discussing the merits of European burger chains or the virtues of a tongue piercing, the dialogue is a performance in its own right. In its taught verbiage it could almost have been written by somebody who barely goes to the cinema, so unpolluted is it by the conventions of its time. The screen brims with Quentin Tarantino’s movie-nut enthusiasm and the verve is infectious.Ĭowritten with Roger Avery, the script won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay – and original is the word. Never pausing to take stock, it just drives further and further into its own preposterously cartoonish world. A lurid comedy about inept hitmen, mob bosses, washed-up boxers, themed diners, leather play, fast food, drug dealers and a family heirloom with a very, ahem, specific backstory where everything is ratcheted up a notch or two beyond the recommended limit. Pulp Fiction is an extraordinary piece of coloratura. When something has amassed quite so much acclaim and proven quite so influential, a certain amount of critical revisionism is inevitable – healthy, even. That it’s a stupid person’s idea of a smart film. These days, you’re meant to think that Pulp Fiction is overrated. Pulp Fiction (1994)Ĭharlie Burton, Senior Commissioning Editor ![]()
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