Reservoir Dogs Reviews

[Highly rated reviewer]

Quentin Tarantino's greatest achievement.

I don't think the director has improved on his debut to date. A great and seminal moment! Particularly for Harvey Keitel.

Proper acting thanks..

I had a lot of misconceptions about this film. I'd heard that it was a blood fest for boys. I hadn't appreciated that Tarantino himself features in a significant role. Much of the film is set in a bare room with extreme personalities and emotions being explored which requires acting of a standard rarely seen in cinema to keep the attention of the audience. I now appreciate why the film was so groundbreaking when it first appeared. This is theatre for the screen that has meaning on many different levels and merits being watched many times to appreciate the sheer skill and messages displayed.

Violent, Bloody and Boring

Pulp Fiction was good (good story, good rythm, violence more suggested than shown..) but Reservoir Digs is awful. Starts with a scene full of blood and remains bloody for 95 minutes. In the end I had to check the DVD recorder to make sure no blood had dripped into it. It may be a 'cult move', but it is far too explicit for me.

Tarantino's 1st and best film

Resevoir Dogs is a work of pure genius.

Unlike any heist movie you've seen before, this film has hardly any action and starts AFTER the heist has been botched. The characters are great and the violence gratious. This is how independent film making should be and this film put Tarantino on the map. Rightly so. The style of this film is also superb.

Enjoyable enough, but not as good as its made out to be

I think this really comes down to wether or not you like movies that cut backwards and forwards through a story, or if you prefer something more linear. The acting was very good, although the story itself was quite simple. This had an air of first movie by the director feel to it, and I cant say it is up there with other gangsta films like Goodfellas, but none the less it was still enjoyable.

In summary, not one for the kids or fainthearted, but if you like a non linear plot, its a good choice.

Acquired Taste Required

This film is not for someone who dosent like long over stretched stories with little action and lack f special effects and depth to a story line.

The film has scenes which can drag and the special effects are non existent, some people may enjoy such a film but my personal taste could not settle into this feature.

too much hype

It was not what'i' thought it would be!! and so i rated it quite low!! ' however'! what isn`t one persons 'cup of tea', will be anothers all-time -best film. i prefer more continuous action, with a story thats easy to follow, plus 1st-class special efects!

The most influential film of the 90s

Tarantino takes liberally from Hong Kong action flicks, most notably Ringo Lam’s City On Fire, but his ultra-hip ‘70s soundtrack and hysterical pop culture dialogue make the film seem wholly original and new.

Taking a cue from the French New Wave--most notably Jean-Luc Godard –Reservoir Dogs remains one of the decade’s most influential motion pictures.

Not as gory as I thought it would

If you believe everything you read about this film being gory or too violent, then don't. Simply because this is an excellent film, Tarentino does a superb job with this, and it would be a crying shame to miss this

[Highly rated reviewer]

This ain't no dog

Tarantino's blistering debut is an account of a heist gone wrong and its terrible aftermath, as the various crooks reassemble at a warehouse to take stock of what went wrong. One of them, an undercover cop, spends the entire running time bleeding to death on the floor. For a first time director, Tarantino has an amazing bag of tricks to play with, notably sheer brass confidence behind the camera, some rivetting character interaction and an amazing cast. Oh, and not forgetting the most unwatchable torture scene since 'Marathon Man'. But it's his profanity-packed screenplay that gets the real kudos, managing to cover a lot of ground whilst still being compellingly witty. A highly precocious but unforgettable first film.