[REVIEW] Reservoir Dogs

[Jeff]

Watched Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs on DVD the other night for the first time. A great, simple story of a robbery gone bad, seen from the various perspectives of the many people involved.

The film is raw and gritty. Its violent and graphic, but not particularly shocking. Even the infamous ear scene didn't really shock me the way it was built up.

The cast was brilliant, and the fear is palpable. Fear is the cornerstone of the film. Fear of deceit, betrayal, death, brokeness. Even when masked by bravado, fear oozes off the screen.

One quibble: Quentin Tarantino loves the F-word. Every member of the cast uses it liberally, like a punctuation mark. Artistic license to a point, but it got to the point where it was distracting.

Other than that, Reservoir Dogs is a tremendous dark film and worth watching. I'll probably watch it again, and that says a lot.

[ZapTheDingbat]

Personally im happy with the use of language in the film , I guess thats a matter of personal prefrence.

Theres a very clever use of music in the film that helps make it the classic it deserves to be.

You might have noticed tarantino playing Mr Brown

If you havnt already see them I would highly recomend
tarantino's "Pulb Fiction"
bryan Singer's "The usual Suspects"
and of course tarantino's utterly silly but exalent "From dusk till Dawn"

My most recent purceses are
Sam ramie's "Evil Dead" (box set 1,2,3,extras)
kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket"

[Jeff]

I'm not offended by the use of language, but I "noticed" it. It felt forced, rather than natural. It's like when you "notice" the special effects in a sci-fi movie. Ideally, the story should be so absorbing that those things don't stick out.

quote:You might have noticed Tarantino playing Mr Brown

Yes, but only Mr Pink survived -- or did he? There were an awful lot of cops converging on the warehouse...

[shifter]

That movie is a classic. Steve Buscemi (Mr. Pink) is one of my favourite actors. I'm gonna have to watch that one again soon. Great soundtrack as well.

[plastidcells]

Tonight I was looking for movies to watch, and Resevoir Dogs came up as one of the possibilities. but I didn't realize it was a tarantino film so I skipped it... (i ended up watching lock stock and two smoking barrels btw) (and I saw usual suspects two days ago... what a coincidence)... i've only seen part of pulp fiction (i should finish it) and i've seen kill bill. tarantino's style with swearing and violence: it's just never as blatant as in other movies so the fact that the general audience isn't accustomed to his style makes his movies so interesting (at least to me).