Reservoir Dogs (Wide Screen)

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~ ~ When you mention the name Quentin Tarantino to anyone, the chances are that the film they will associate most closely with this somewhat wacky American film director is the 1994 classic, “Pulp Fiction”. (John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson) But two years before, in 1992, Tarantino wrote and directed another movie of the same genre. A madcap and sadistic gangster movie called “Reservoir Dogs”, which made his name in Hollywood, ...
...phenomenal success of Pulp Fiction. This movie has always been a particular favourite of mine, and I actually rate it as highly as Pulp Fiction itself. (which I also love) But I hadn’t watched it in a good while, and so decided to rent it on DVD yesterday evening, to enjoy it yet again on my new DVD player and widescreen Dolby Digital TV. The TV and DVD player did make a huge difference to my overall enjoyment of the movie, far more so that ... Read review

Advantages: Sharp and stylish
Disadvantages: Blood and language

...The opening scenes of Reservoir Dogs, like those of Pulp Fiction, are mind bendingly snappy and sharp and usher you breathlessly into the extraordinary world of the mobster lowlife Americana, replete with its f***s etc. In this one as the credits roll we get the sharp dudes in their black suits and ties and shades and white shirts stylishly strding down the street like nothing so much as a more knowing and mature Madness. At least all of them do ...
...felt a bit cheated by Reservoir Dogs, with its relatively shallow fare and overweening obsession with violence, guns and buckets of blood. It's the story of a jewellery robbery which goes bad and the aftermath of violent action and words which befall our hapless little band of foul mouthed hoods. There's an unpleasant and sickening preoccupation with blood and guts and hatred and a blithe disregard for even the most slight of finesse. There's an ... Read review

Advantages: Tarantiono's masterful debut
Disadvantages: Can get extremely violent at times, frequent swearing

After purchasing Reservoir dogs a mere week ago on DVD, and subsequently watching it twice, I feel compelled to write an opinion on a film which has left me both enthralled and stunned. The storyline is set around a bungled jewlery store robbery, and the events both leading up to it, and following on from it. Each gangster is assigned a colour, and instructed not to discuss each others personal background so as to minimise the chances of them being ...
...identified in the team. Reservoir dogs is both powerful and contraversial, and is a thrilling and worthy debut from Tarantino. Tarantino himself makes a brief yet memorable appearance in the film as one of the gangsters, but is killed during the robbery after a tip-off to the police leads to a frantic shootout. Steve Buscemi makes a fantastic performance as Mr Pink, and Tim Roth makes an accomplished appearance as the undercover cop (Mr Orange) ... Read review

Advantages: Cast, script, direction, just the coolest film ever made
Disadvantages: only 1 dissapointment, was a rip off

I have to review this film as for a long time it was my all time favourite and I know it is not for everyone but I knew nothing about this film when I went to watch it on a preview screening when I was a teenager working in a cinema and it blew my socks off. I realised what people who saw the first Coppola, Kubrick or Scorsese film must have felt, wow this is totally original and I want in on the ground floor with this guy Tarantino. There is one ...
...of this film which is basically a group of criminals that are brought together to pull a bank job, which goes disasterously wrong. The police are waiting for them as soon as they have pulled the job and its clear that someone in the gang has betrayed them to the police. And those that make it out alive or just seriously wounded have a somewhat violent debate about who ratted them out. Well thats the thread but it does not even scratch the surface ... Read review

Advantages: entertaing, violent, funny and serious all at the same time
Disadvantages: no real story behind it all

Reservoir Dogs, what can you say about a film like this? Thrilling, Disturbing, Comical, Entertaining….I could go on. Reservoir Dogs is a film which isn’t going to be to everyone’s taste. It’s a film that not only entertains you right the way through, but also teaches you a thing or two about what can go on in a gang of criminals, the lengths they will go too to save themselves and how each one if there for themselves and ...
...few of his films too. Reservoir Dogs was his first film and his name went off with a bang! He soon after gave us pulp fiction, but Quentin came from no where, he was a man with an idea and a love for films, and this is what came of that. The budget for the film was $1.2m. Give a director that these days and he will probably laugh in your face and walk off the set, but Quentin didn’t really need any more than that for what he wanted to do. He ... Read review