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Year:	1994
Country of origin:	USA
Director:	Quentin Tarantino
Genre:	Crime thriller
Starring:	Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, Ving Rhames
Rating:	5/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/
Tagline:	You won't know the facts until you've seen the fiction.
Favourite line:	"Pot bellies make a man look either oafish, or like a gorilla. But on a woman, a pot belly is very sexy. The rest of you is normal. Normal face, normal legs, normal hips, normal ass, but with a big, perfectly round pot belly. If I had one, I'd wear a tee-shirt two sizes too small to accentuate it."

Tarantino's follow up to the superlative Reservoir Dogs is an altogether broader movie, both in content and scale.
Essentially, this is three short stories, neither one of which could carry a movie alone, interwoven together with aplomb to create what could possibly be a new genre - the gestalt thriller. The individual segments are certainly entertaining in their own right, but it is only when the strands merge together in your mind that the true strength of this movie becomes apparent.
I'm not going to go into any detail about the plot here - I have neither the time nor the inclination - but suffice to say that the inidvidual plots are straight forward enough, it is the way that it is pieced together that is intriguing and, on first viewing at least, quite confusing.
Some of the most quotable lines in moviedom help carry this along - "I'ma call a coupla hard, pipe-hittin' niggers....I'ma get medieval on your ass" - and the performances by all involved are extraordinary.
A movie that is one of a kind, Tarantino turned the movie industry upside down with this one. Superb.