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Summary: Overhyped, overacted and overdone
Review: People gush over this film, and to tell the truth, I'm puzzled as to why. It's yet another remake of a story that has been done countless times: The carefully planned crime that goes very, very wrong. And it's been done far better- take "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre", for instance. What distinguishes this film is the excessive and obvious cruelty- a Tarantino specialty- and some really cloying overacting by Keitel and others. The final scene is- well, you haven't seen someone milk a dying scene until you see this one. Tarantino has shown that he's a one-trick poney. He rehased much of the same ground in "Pulp Fiction", and when he tried to do a film that didn't depend on crude humor and violent imagery, he failed miserably. The reason is simple: He's not a very good film maker or screenwriter. If he can't shock or titilate the audience with violence, he has nothing to offer. Just imagine what a great director like John Ford could have done with this story.
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Summary: Two Ears Up
Review: One of my top ten favorite flicks. I love movies that take a simple story and turn it into great entertainment. (Q.T.'s the master) Micheal Madson, in my veiw, is what really made this movie great. The "ear" scene, with that great background song, is one of the best ten minutes of film I have ever seen. A must have in your video library!
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Summary: Say what you will about Tarantino . . .
Review: Many say he's just an overrated hipster who rips off other movies. Well, in my opinion (and I've seen a lot of movies), Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs had a lot of originality to them (as did Natural Born Killers and to a lesser extent True Romance), but he does have influences. There's nothing wrong with that. He makes good movies and is developing his style. Reservoir Dogs stand as possibly his best movie. First the background: Reservoir Dogs was based on an obscure Chinese film called City on Fire, which was about a detective who infiltrated a jewel thieving ring and went with them on their big heist. Reservoir Dogs is, at it's most basic, the last part of City on Fire. However, the characters and dialogue are all Tarantino's own. And those are the two things that make the movie great. The writing is outstanding. The performances are very good, especially Harvey Keitel as the doomed Mr. White, Michael Madsen as the pscyopathic Mr. Blonde, and Steve Buscemi as the nervous Mr. Pink. As I said above, the dialogue is great. The way the criminals talk is exactly how you'd expect them to, and they play off each other very well. The very minimal plot moves along rapidly, and the movie never lets up for a second, although there is some time distortion concerning flashbacks of the characters (pre-heist and during the heist). Reservoir Dogs is a classic crime movie, and quite essential.
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Summary: One of the Best Movies Ever!
Review: "Reservoir Dogs" has an all-male cast, but I don't see why girls "can't" enjoy this movie. I just loved it! The acting's brilliant all around, and the script/dialogue is smart and natural and so, so funny it'll just kill you! Tim Roth's a GOD & Harvey Keital's just fantastic. No one should miss this movie - there's never a boring moment and it's perfectly well directed. You'll enjoy the suspense in finding out who the "rat" is among the robbers. If you HAVEN'T seen the film, perhaps you should take care NOT TO READ the comments by one "Viewer from Ohio" who GAVE AWAY the name of the "rat" in his review. FYI, this viewer gave the movie only 2-Stars and his review comes under the title: "What Can I Say"?
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Summary: DVD transfer well done but short on extras
Review: A very good and clever film by the great Tarantino. DVD transfer provides average sound and picture. Widescreen picture is an added bonus. The only negative is the DVD has no special features. Sooner or later, a re-release of the DVD will take care of that. A Tarantino-Bender track would be interesting for the future. However, the DVD on the market now, is well worth buying for your collection. This movie holds up to repeated veiwings and it gets better each time.
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Summary: The Best Tarantino Film Yet
Review: What a way to start off one of the most intelligent and best scriptwriters and directors of the past two decades. The way that Tarantino sets the film in the rendez vous, where other films would only give this section 5 or 10 minutes, is genius. The script is sharp, the paranioa and the secrecy inside the gang is electrifying. Their are also some possible career best performances from Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi and Harvey Keitel. S Simply, this is one of the best films ever made.
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Summary: " WHY DO I GOTTA BE MR. PINK ? "
Review: If you already know the answer to that question, then you also know why I can't reveal it here. This may be a family -oriented web-site... but there is NOTHING family - oriented about this film. And needless to say, that's why we like it. Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino on a budget of one million dollars, Reservoir Dogs is one of the smartest, most realistic crime yarns ever. Without revealing too much, a simple plot synopsis would go something like this : A prominent crime boss rounds up a band of small-time criminals ( who would like to think of themselves as professionals ) for a diamond hiest at a local jewelry store. The catch : They don't know each other and are each given code names... "Mr. White... Mr. Orange... and Mr. Pink" and so on. Of course every perfect crime always isn't and the next thing you know ( in the aftermath of the robbery ) these goodfellas are shouting and waving guns at each other and " blah - blah - blah." The story is about trust and in some ways represents John Carpenter's The Thing. How ? Well, all of these guys have essentially taken one another at face value as the kind of person they seem to be... but as the film progresses everyone begins to realize that someone in the group may well be a cop. Or maybe they're just paranoid... or maybe they aren't. An excellent movie with tour de force perfomances from Harvey Kietel, Steve Buscemi, and Michael Madsen, Reservoir Dogs is frequently funny but also mean and gritty. It's like any rabid canine--- it'll bite.
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Summary: Best movie of the '90s
Review: by far. I have recommended this movie to several people. Many of them have problems getting past the violence. For whatever reason, I don't. This story is fantastic. It's a classic honor and betrayal among thieves theme, but in a contemporary setting. The writing, the dialogue, and the behavior of these characters rings true. If you don't think people, especially criminals, speak with this amount of profanity, go hang out at your local jail for awhile. And yes, a bank robbery gone bad is gonna be bloody. This next paragraph might give away some plot, so be warned. I saw this movie before Pulp Fiction came out and I still prefer it to PF. RD is hilarious at many points, but tragic also. There are characters you feel for. Mr. White's anguish at the end over the be, Mr. Orange's and the captured policeman's desperate waiting for a rescue that will (can?) never come, Mr. Pink's hyperkinetic frustration at his inability to control his own fate. I could go on and on. Suffice to say, I was hooked after the first scene and Mr. Pink's commentary on tipping. This movie has everything a great film should have.
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Summary: Reservoir Dogs
Review: This film has been wildly overrated in some quarters(Europe, and the Editorial review on this page are two). Contrary to those opinions, RD is not as good as Pulp Fiction, or Jackie Brown, the two films it's writer-director, Quentin Tarantino, has made since. Reservoir Dogs has one major flaw--the sequence where Keitel and Roth go to the warehouse, and are met there by Buscemi goes on too long. Way, way too long. The film's editor, Sally Menke, wanted this scene to be shorter, and with good reason, this sequence is embarrasingly repetitive as Buscemi and Keitel seem to repeat their lines over and over. As soon as Madsen gets there, the film picks up and the rest of it is great.
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Summary: Reservoir Dogs- An Awe inspiring debut
Review: Quentin Tarnatino's directrorial debut shines with inspiring wit and pulse pounding suspense, as this story of 6 robbers involved in a messed up diamond heist. The action becomes more intense as they realize they have a police informant within the group. This stands out from most modern day action films because it has it's own unique style of story telling, and the blood and action isn't gratuitous or just there for flash. I would recommend this title for any fan of good movies, and good dialogue.
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