Product DescriptionNo Description Available. Genre: Feature Film-Action/AdventureRating: RRelease Date: 7-AUG-2007Media Type: DVDAmazon. com essential videoQuentin Tarantino came out of nowhere (i. e. , a video store in Manhattan Beach, California) and turned Hollywood on its ear in 1992 with his explosive first feature, Reservoir Dogs.
Like Tarantino’s mainstream breakthrough Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs has an unconventional structure, cleverly shuffling back and forth in time to reveal details about the characters, experienced criminals who know next to nothing about each other.
Joe (Lawrence Tierney) has assembled them to pull off a simple heist, and has gruffly assigned them color-coded aliases (Mr. Orange, Mr. Pink, Mr. White) to conceal their identities from being known even to each other. But something has gone wrong, and the plan has blown up in their faces. One by one, the surviving robbers find their way back to their prearranged warehouse hideout. There, they try to piece together the chronology of this bloody fiasco–and to identify the traitor among them who tipped off the police. Pressure mounts, blood flows, accusations and bullets fly. In the combustible atmosphere these men are forced to confront life-and-death questions of trust, loyalty, professionalism, deception, and betrayal. As many critics have observed, it is a movie about “honor among thieves” (just as Pulp Fiction is about redemption, and Jackie Brown is about survival).
Along with everything else, the movie provides a showcase for a terrific ensemble of actors: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen, Christopher Penn, and Tarantino himself, offering a fervent dissection of Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” over breakfast. Reservoir Dogs is violent (though the violence is implied rather than explicit), clever, gabby, harrowing, funny, suspenseful, and even–in the end–unexpectedly moving. (Don’t forget that “Super Sounds of the Seventies” soundtrack, either. ) Reservoir Dogs deserves just as much acclaim and attention as its follow-up, Pulp Fiction, would receive two years later. –Jim EmersonAmazon. comQuentin Tarantino came out of nowhere (i. e. , a video store in Manhattan Beach, California) and turned Hollywood on its ear in 1992 with his explosive first feature, Reservoir Dogs. Like Tarantino’s mainstream breakthrough Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs has an unconventional structure, cleverly shuffling back and forth in time to reveal details about the characters, experienced criminals who know next to nothing about each other. Joe (Lawrence Tierney) has assembled them to pull off a simple heist, and has gruffly assigned them color-coded aliases (Mr. Orange, Mr. Pink, Mr. White) to conceal their identities from being known even to each other. But something has gone wrong, and the plan has blown up in their faces.
One by one, the surviving robbers find their way back to their prearranged warehouse hideout. There, they try to piece together the chronology of this bloody fiasco–and to identify the traitor among them who tipped off the police. Pressure mounts, blood flows, accusations and bullets fly. In the combustible atmosphere these men are forced to confront life-and-death questions of trust, loyalty, professionalism, deception, and betrayal. As many critics have observed, it is a movie about “honor among thieves” (just as Pulp Fiction is about redemption, and Jackie Brown is about survival). Along with everything else, the movie provides a showcase for a terrific ensemble of actors: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen, Christopher Penn, and Tarantino himself, offering a fervent dissection of Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” over breakfast. Reservoir Dogs is violent (though the violence is implied rather than explicit), clever, gabby, harrowing, funny, suspenseful, and even–in the end–unexpectedly moving. (Don’t forget that “Super Sounds of the Seventies” soundtrack, either. ) Reservoir Dogs deserves just as much acclaim and attention as its follow-up, Pulp Fiction, would receive two years later. –Jim Emerson
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It’s amazing what ten years can do to a film. What was fresh and unique in 1992 is now overdone cliche in 2002. The true test to any film is how well it stands the test of time, and this film cannot stand well at all. The scenes are cumbersome and contrived. The acting is forced, and the violence is comically overdone, but not to the film’s benefit.
Rating: 1 / 5
I have only walked out of a very few movies in my life, but this one takes the prize. To detail the torture of a bound officer is beyond the pale. Truly abhorent work. Shameful.
Rating: 1 / 5
I found the movie rather pointless. . . . the script was definitely canned, it felt like I was watching a play. It never drew me into it, and most of it is set in an empty warehouse, which left nothing but the script to carry it. I also felt they were having blood just for blood’s sake. . . . the point of the movie? The cops are [jerks], gangsters are [jerks]—the whole world is full of [jerks]? That’s great, Sherlock, how long did it take you to figure that one out?
Rating: 1 / 5
What is it all about? Endless violence and brutality form the beginning to the end. Looks like certain public simply can’t get themselves entertained other than watching people being tortured. Maybe that’s why there were always crowds at public executions in the past, to titillate that basic instinct of watching others suffer as this is the funniest thing for certain people? Thanks to Tarantino, we can enjoy it at the comfort of our homes. I wish humanity would prevail even for those who award this sadistic masterpiece the title of the best movie of all times – one can only wonder what they compare it with. . . Concluding that this is for those who enjoy watching brutality, extreme violence and generally the worst in human kind.
Rating: 1 / 5
This movie is similar to what is left behind after I sit on the can for a while.
Rating: 1 / 5