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

Gerard van Gent

Andrzej Sekula

Sally Menke

Ronnie Yeskel

David Wasco

Richard N. Gladstein

Monte Hellman

Ronna B. Wallace

Sandy Reynolds-Wasco

Betsy Heimann

Paul Hellerman

Stephen DeLollis

Rick Yale

Larry Fioritto

Karyn Rachtman

Brett C. Smith

Marino Pascal

Ziad Doueiri

Ric Urbauer

Ross Katz

Mark Emery Moore

Mary Claire Hannan

Iain Jones

Rachel Tanner

Michelle Bühler

Jacqueline Aronson

Jeannie H. Kelly

David Coffee

Wayne Alexander

Jennifer Pyken

Jonathan R. Hodges

Warren Betts

Bruce Comtois

Melanie Molyneux

Ken Lesco

Marian Green

Ben C. Giller

James Lowder

Marina Bailey

Jamie Beardsley

Martin Kitrosser

Chuck Winston

Kelley Dixon

Jay Dahlquist

Joey D. Brown

Greg R. McCullough

Peggy Kennedy

Billy A. Fox

R. Blaine Currier

Enid L. Kantor

Dwayne S. Henkel

John Hulsman

Ken Segal

Curt Schulkey

Stephen Hunter Flick

Roger Avary

Steve F.B. Smith

John Lieberman

Francis R. Mahony III

Steven K. Thomas

Ron Bartlett

Geoffrey G. Rubay

Charles Ewing Smith

David E. Stone

Kelly Kiernan

Andy Spilkoman

Jonathan Bobbitt

Nancy Lynn Hurlbut

Mary Louise Rodgers

Cecilia Perna

Dink Adams

Dennis K. Wilson

Randall Guth

Mark Lass

Judith E. Goldman

Debra Grieco

Mary Santiago

Robert John Speer

Pat Domenico

Wendy Baker

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

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Thriller

Reservoir Dogs

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Dog Eat Dog Productions

United States of America

English

escape

jewelry

psychopath

traitor

heist

thief

betrayal

plan gone wrong

gang

nonlinear timeline

warehouse

told in flashback

heist gone wrong

botched robbery

foreshadowing

rendezvous

iconic

uneasy alliance

rag tag group

based on short

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-

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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.

Steve Buscemi on Reservoir Dogs

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RESERVOIR DOGS - Opening Credits

Reservoir Dogs( 1992)

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Written by talisencrw on Sat May 14 2016

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