Reservoir Dogs (DVD)

Reservoir Dogs is controversial director Quentin Tarantino's first film to hit the box office. In 1987 he wrote and directed My Best Friend's Birthday, but Dogs was his first success. It combines some gory and violent filming with quick talking dialogue and instant cult styles. The Plot Seven complete strangers are contracted to perform the perfect robbery. They don't know each others' names, but each are given a colour in lieu. Messrs White, Orange, Blonde, Pink, Blue & Brown, and Nice Guy Eddie, gear up for the robbery and it all goes wrong. What follows is essentially an in-group investigation set mainly in a warehouse following the bungle, ...  Read the complete review

We're in a coffee shop. There's a bunch of guys sitting around this table, and they're arguing about the meaning of some pop song; I don't remember which one. No wait, yeah, it was Madonna's 'Like a Virgin'. So anyway, they're sitting there talkin' and they don't even know each other's names. Well, not all of 'em anyway. I suppose you could say this is where this story starts, or at least, this is where Tarantino wants it to start. Cue the music. Next thing we know, Mr. Orange is screaming in the back seat with a bullet in his stomach, while Mr. White is trying to drive the blood-soaked car. To say the diamond ...  Read the complete review

Mr. Pink: “Kill anybody?” Mr. White: “Just a few Cops...” Mr. Pink:” Any real people?” Like the poor unfortunate customers on the end of Michael Madsen’s ‘44’ at that Inglewood jewelry store, this is one of those debut movies that you are quickly blown way by in the opening moments, bursting through the door in a sharp suit and cool shades, just like its incumbents, the world witnessing the arrival of a very special directing talent indeed, whether he is a plagiarist geek or not. Tarantino is unique in that he learnt his craft from the best by not actually meeting them, mostly through watching films at a video store where he worked for two ...  Read the complete review

Iconic and influential. Those two words pretty much tell you all you need to know about Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs. So how did a low-budget release, made by a first time writer-director end up being one of the most copied films of the last 20 years? The answer is simple: by concentrating on the things that have always made a good film; story, characters and dialogue. Reservoir Dogs may have been Tarantino's first proper film, but all the elements which gave rise to the adjective "Tarantino-esque" are already in place. The fractured approach to story telling, the inter-weaving of several plot stands, snappy, quotable and often ...  Read the complete review

Reservoir Dogs is the 1992 feature length debut of writer/director Quentin Tarantino. Following a jewellry heist gone awry, the thieves meet up at an abandoned warehouse. The colour coded criminals Mr White (Harvey Keitel), Mr Pink (Steve Buscemi) and the badly wounded Mr Orange (Tim Roth) are the first to arrive. The jittery Mr Pink is able to convince Mr White that there is an informant within the group who has tipped off the police. To make matters worse, they then have to deal with the violent Mr Blonde (Michael Madsen). What they don't realise is that there is actually an undercover cop in their midst. Originally planned to be a $30,000 ...  Read the complete review