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Summary: A classic.
Review: I don't think I need to say too much about this movie.
From the scene of Mr. Blond torturing the police officer , to the trust that Harvey had to Tim.
The menu on the DVD is very simple and well done.
This is a classic and should be kept in your DVD files.
Have fun watching!
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Summary: Who said tough-guy movies were dead?
Review: In a time where a new breed of "sensitive" actors are all the rage, Reservoir Dogs stands alone as being one of the few films brave enough to stick with the tough-guys. Quentin Tarantino is the mastermind behind this gem of a movie, which is in turns hilarious, disturbing, fierce, and ultimately heart-wrenching. Who knew that a tale about diamond thieves and a botched heist could be so powerful? Tarantino, obviously. With the help of brilliant actor Harvey Keitel, who both supported the film financially and found the perfect cast, Tarantino has provided us with the most influential film of the 1990s. The acting is realistically gritty, the dialogue is delightfully crisp, and the soundtrack is one to die for. If you love movies, this is an essential view.
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Summary: Classic
Review: Although this movie is not as good as "Pulp Fiction", it's still really good. Tarantino made a great movie on a small budget. Even though most of it takes place in a warehouse, it's still really exciting. It lacks some of "Pulp Fiction"'s humor, but it's still great.
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Summary: Reservoir Dogs
Review: The best jewel heist movie ever made. The plot is a old crook
(Lawrence Tierney) and his son (Chris Penn) hire six guys with
color nicknames and they are Mr. White (Harvey Keital), Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen),Mr. Pink (Steve Bucemi),Mr. Blue (Eddie Bunker),Mr. Brown (Quentin Tarantino)and Mr. Orange (Tim Roth)to pull of a diamond heist together but things go horribly wrong.
After the robbery they find out one of them is a cop. But Who?
Starring Harvey Keital,Tim Roth,Chris Penn,Steve Bucemi,Lawrence Tierney,Michael Madsen,Kirk Baltz,Randy Brooks,Eddie Bunker,Quentin Tarantino and Rich Turner.Tarantino's best film.
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Summary: fantastic
Review: FANTASTIC can be the only way to sum up this movie. It is hard to find anything wrong with it. Every performance is terrific, especially Steve Buscemi as the 'professional' Mr. Pink. Quentin Tarantino makes the best debut by a dirctor in a long time, and the fact that he also scripted it just adds to his brilliance. The film is not for all tastes, certainly not for the squimish, but it is still a film which should be appreciated even if it is not enjoyed. There has not been any other recent film that has dialogue as good as this. The 'Like A Virgin' speech in the opening scenes and the final scene between Mr. White (Harvey Keitel) and Mr. Orange (Tim Roth)are all nothing short of brilliant. In short this is a movie that must be seen, if that is, you think that you can stomach it.
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Summary: Not quite perfect.
Review: The first time I saw this movie, I didn't notice how endlessly long the "Like a Virgin" scene and the smoking-in-the-bathroom scene were. I wonder what point Q.T. was going for with those long blathering scenes. As for the torture scene, I have a little trouble with that one. It's just a little too read. Other than that, I loved the movie! Harvey Keitel can do no wrong in my book. But just one more question: why was Harvey Keitel taking drags off a cigarette that wasn't lit?
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Summary: The delineation of violence
Review: Future historians may well look back at the cinema of the nineties in the United States and wonder why it spawned so many movies that seemed to celebrate gratuitous violence while catering to an audience fascinated with gore. (I have some ideas on this, but I'll skip them here.) Some may say this is nothing new, that there has always been gore in the movies, that the horror flick is a standard genre, and that, at any rate, human beings are quite naturally interested in violence because even if it is rare in their suburban experience, when it does occur it is of overriding significance. When historians do look back they will surely take a gander at this film, director Quentin Tarantino's celebrated breakout cult classic. Anyone reading this has already seen the movie or certainly knows about its content. It contains one of the most unredeeming scenes of sadistic violence ever to strike the silver screen. It depicts a world in which men stick their guns out at each other the way little boys play.... It is a world in which women exist only on the periphery (like an old war movie there are virtually no women in the film), a world in which men are constantly preoccupied with macho notions and the phenomena of male bonding to the exclusion of anything else. The behavior of the men while superficially realistic is actually stylized in the extreme. Anything and everything may set a man off. His ego is under continual fire, his manhood is constantly being tested. Life is short, brutal and bestial. Question: where did this vision come from, and why did it resonate so strongly with an audience, and what is that audience? It can be said that Reservoir Dogs appeals primarily to young men and teenaged boys, who are preoccupied with coming to grips with violence because it represents an important part of their lives, and how they might relate to violence is an essential part of their self discovery. This is true, but it is not the whole story. After all, as I write this, Reservoir Dogs is the 58th most popular movie of all time according to votes tabulated at the International Movie Database web site, IMDb.com. Even given that there is still a male bias on the web, this is an extraordinarily high rating for the first film of any director and for such a low budget enterprise. Part of the explanation for the near reverence shown this film lies not in the blood-letting and the macho posturing, but in a story well told, well-plotted and of characters well-drawn and especially the indelible acting performances from most of the cast. Harvey Kietel as a hardened criminal with a soft heart, and Steve Buscemi as the amoral Mr. Pink, and Michael Madsen as the sadistic Mr. Blonde and Chris Penn as the slightly soft and slightly spoiled son of a criminal father and Tim Roth as the high wire acting Mr. Orange, really rivet us to the screen. The professional cadre of criminals depicted here, the cheap thugs and psychopathic killers, are well realized and their life styles and preoccupations well delineated. Tarantino begins with a scene in which the boys around some tables in a cafe "analyze" Madonna's "Like a Virgin" in manner that might be described as Oxford don crude. They continually espouse the racist, sexist macho values of the criminal underclass, in which loyalty to the band and bravery under fire are the highest values, while cowardice and "turning rat" are the lowest. Furthermore the script is punctuated with sick little jokes (e.g., about the imagined nature of black women), and wryly obscene juxtapositions, notably the macabre dance of Mr. Blonde to the radio playing "Stuck in the Middle with You" as he tortures the cop. Finally there is the structure of the film itself in which time is splintered and events are recalled and presented not chronologically, but according to the logic of the film itself. This technique allows Tarantino great freedom of expression and emphasis. Okay, so why am I only giving this three stars? Mainly because, while the treatment was striking and original, the story and the milieu presented were not. And some of this was unrealistic to the point of annoyance. That Mr. Orange did not bleed to death or at least go into shock and faint dead away with a gaping hole in his stomach is beyond me. And the "neat" karmic ending was more than a little far fetched. And all those stylized speeches! You'd think part of this was written for the Shakespearean stage. Indeed, although Tarantino may not realize it, he owes something to the Bard. Didn't Hamlet end much the same way with dead bodies all over the stage? Additionally, while Tarantino's vision appeals strongly to his targeted audience (and his own psyche), it does not relate well with a larger audience. The last thing a man of my age is concerned about is how macho he might be. Such concerns seem childish. And the nature and phenomenon of human violence is very far from a mystery to me; furthermore I know very well exactly how I feel about violence and how I might react in the face of it. I think if I had seen this movie when I was seventeen, I might have been stunned and thrilled with its power. Seeing it in my middle years leaves me a little cold. Incidentally I agree with those who say that this is a greater artistic achievement than the "Hollywoodized" Pulp Fiction (1995), also directed by Tarantino.
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Summary: "Reservoir Dogs Lights up the Screen"
Review: This was a spectacular film. It is about six jewel heists who have been given colors as names. Their are Mr. White (Harvey Keital), Mr. Orange (Tim Roth), Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen), Mr. Pink (Steve Bucemi), Mr. Brown (Quentin Tarantino) and Mr. Blue (Eddie Bunker). They are hired by a clever con Joe Cabot (Lawrence Tierney) and his son Nice Guy Eddie (Chris Penn),to pull of the robbery. It takes place after the robbery when all the heists are reviewing what went wrong and why there were cops there before anything happened. They come to the idea that one of them is a cop. But Who? The movie never shows the robbery and makes you imagine it yourself making this movie the best of it's kind. Directed by Quentin Tarantino. Also Starring Randy Brooks, Kirk Baltz and Rich Turner. -Michael Margetis
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Summary: After watching this, you'll want one of them suits.
Review: How Quentin Tarantino managed to pull off such an awsome cast for his first film is beyond me; Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi, Chris Penn and Tim Roth (just to name a few) are all great actors. Reservoir Dogs is about a group of thieves who rob a jewellery store, but all does not go to plan, as the police already seemed to know about it. Is there a rat in this group of theives? Did one of them inform the police? The style Tarantino uses is clever. He often goes back in time, to the time of the robbery and beyond, which sometimes shows us the background of the characters. Reservoir Dogs catches your attention from the opening scene and doesn't stop untill the end. At the start Mr Brown (Tarantino himself) explains to his fellow theives why Madonna's song "Like A Virgin" has it's unusual name, the conversation then changes into why Mr Pink doesn't like to tip waitresses. That's just an example of a lot of the very entertaining dialouge throughout the film. We all know how good an actor Harvey Keitel is, and Reservoir Dogs is no exeption. He plays a great Mr White, and one of his buddies, Mr Orange (Tim Roth), is equally cool. Mr Pink is entertaining - him being so anxious and paraniod is great, Steve Busemi suits this role to the bone. Micheal Madeson is great, he plays Mr Blonde, a cruel and brutal man who has a sick sence of humour, although I had to laugh when he danced to his favorite song. Reservoir Dogs has a great ending as well. If you are the person who can get past the layer of rough language and violence in a film, Reservoir Dogs will keep you watching to the end, then leave you thinking 'That was a good movie...'
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Summary: Excellent Movie, Creative Directing
Review: There are many reasons why this movie is excellent. The story is well-laid out. Tarantino makes great use of flash-back and out-of-sequence story-telling for maximum effect. The quality of the acting is great. The idea of the story was pretty fresh (at least at the time it was made) -- to have the protagonists be criminals. I was also caught by the surprise unmasking, which really made me enjoy the movie more. The language and violence is a little gratutitous, but you probably guessed that.
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