Crime

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Reservoir Dogs

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Dog Eat Dog Productions

United States of America

English

Harvey Keitel

Tim Roth

Michael Madsen

Chris Penn

Steve Buscemi

Lawrence Tierney

Randy Brooks

Kirk Baltz

Edward Bunker

Quentin Tarantino

Rich Turner

David Steen

Tony Cosmo

Stevo Polyi

Michael Sottile

Robert Ruth

Lawrence Bender

Linda Kaye

Suzanne Celeste

Steven Wright

Laurie Lathem

Maria Strova

Burr Steers

Craig Hamann

Rowland Wafford

Scott McElroy

Sally Menke

Ronna B. Wallace

Paul Hellerman

Sandy Reynolds-Wasco

David Wasco

Monte Hellman

Stephen DeLollis

Richard N. Gladstein

Betsy Heimann

Larry Fioritto

Andrzej Sekula

Ronnie Yeskel

Karyn Rachtman

Michelle Bühler

Martin Kitrosser

Peggy Kennedy

David Coffee

Marina Bailey

Ross Katz

Melanie Molyneux

Rachel Tanner

Jennifer Pyken

Joey D. Brown

Curt Schulkey

Ric Urbauer

Marian Green

Jamie Beardsley

Jacqueline Aronson

Greg R. McCullough

Dwayne S. Henkel

John Lieberman

Ziad Doueiri

Billy A. Fox

Jeannie H. Kelly

Jonathan R. Hodges

R. Blaine Currier

Brett C. Smith

Mark Emery Moore

Wayne Alexander

James Lowder

Iain Jones

Ken Lesco

John Hulsman

Bruce Comtois

Ben C. Giller

Steve F.B. Smith

Mary Claire Hannan

Warren Betts

Chuck Winston

Kelley Dixon

Marino Pascal

Enid L. Kantor

Jay Dahlquist

Ken Segal

Stephen Hunter Flick

Steven K. Thomas

Francis R. Mahony III

Geoffrey G. Rubay

David E. Stone

Ron Bartlett

Charles Ewing Smith

Andy Spilkoman

Dink Adams

Mark Lass

Mary Louise Rodgers

Kelly Kiernan

Nancy Lynn Hurlbut

Jonathan Bobbitt

Cecilia Perna

Wendy Baker

Judith E. Goldman

Debra Grieco

Dennis K. Wilson

Randall Guth

Pat Domenico

Mary Santiago

Robert John Speer

Ken Kaufman

Wayne Toth

Howard Berger

Edward J. Protiva

Greg Wilkinson

Michael Salvetta

Donald Ortiz

Moose Enright

Dave Gregory

Marcia Holley

Pat McGroarty

Katie Nilson

Chris J. Rossi

Alan Sherrod

Miles Thomas

Frank H. Woodward

Cheryl Faye

This unique take on the heist-film-gone-wrong was excellent--stylish and intelligently made, yet very funny and inexpensive. Tarantino's accolades from giving American cinema the resuscitation it needed mirrors what has happened, at least since the 70's, with Martin Scorsese's 'Mean Streets', both in terms of entertaining violence and usage of music in the scoring of films. I greatly thank Harvey Keitel for taking a chance on Tarantino back then--It paid off in spades.

The cuss-oriented squabbles of lowlife crooks for 99 minutes (and no women)
	
RELEASED IN 1992 and written/directed by Quentin Tarantino, "Reservoir Dogs” is a crime drama/thriller about a diamond heist gone disastrously wrong in Los Angeles wherein the surviving thugs bicker back-and-forth in a warehouse about which of their members is a police informant. The main thieves are played by Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen and Chris Penn while Lawrence Tierney appears as the old salt mastermind.

This was Tarantino’s first feature film, costing only $1,200,000, and it has quirky glimmerings of future greatness, as seen in “Pulp Fiction” (1994), “Jackie Brown” (1997), “Kill Bill” (2003/2004), “Inglourious Basterds” (2009) and “Django Unchained” (2012), but “Reservoir” didn’t work for me. It’s hampered by a low-budget vibe, which I can handle, but not the uninteresting lowlife characters, their self-made conundrum, their interminably dull dialogue and the one-dimensional setting where about 80% of the story takes place in an old warehouse, not to mention no females in the main cast.

Still, it’s interesting to observe Tarantino’s first serious stab at filmmaking and it has its moments of genuine entertainment. It’s a lesson on humble beginnings, which shows potential while not being up to snuff.

THE FILM RUNS 1 hour, 39 minutes and was shot in Los Angeles & Burbank.

GRADE: C-

CinemaSerf

Nope, I didn't get the memo... After a jewellery heist goes wrong and the escaping funeral-attired hoodlums kill a couple of cops and one gets gut-shot in a car-jacking, they return to their hideout where they turn on each other with expletive-ridden venom. What now ensues is a recreation of the planning and execution of their raid, their introductions to each other and that all lays the seeds for this over-rated drama of brutal mistrust and duplicity. Tim Roth probably stands out as "Mr. Orange" but the rest of the fairly well established cast offer us little by way of sophistication or subtlety as they try to decide which - if any of them - informed the police. It's violent but so what - it's not Scorsese, nor does the story really hold up after it becomes glaringly obvious what is actually going to happen at the end. Quentin Tarantino's directorial debut has shock value, certainly, but I'm afraid I found the whole thing really quite dull. Sorry - but there's more to good writing and characterisation that loads of effing, jeffing, charm-free thuggery and bullets. Not for me!

I don't get it. Feels like nothing happens the whole film. Cool to see Buscemi in this though, I didn't realize he was in such an early one of Tarantino's films.

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