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Summary: Forget about Pulp Fiction, here's the real deal !
Review: This is where it all started with Quentin Tarantino, and I got to say that it could have not started any better! rarely have I seen such intensity and humanity in one action movie. The genious use of flashbacks create a background for the characters, making it easier to identify with them. It also makes sense when we think about the plot. Harvey Keitel and Steve Buscemi give a breathtaking performances, and Tarantino helps the plot progress smoothly. I have earlier reviewed Luc Besson's The Professnional, and I am embarassed to admit that whatever I have said about that film to be the best action film of the decade - maybe ever - I have to take it back now taht I've seen Reservoir Dogs. There is so much psychological tension in this film that it makes you feel like you're Mr Green, and you're standing in the empty warehous with the rest of them. Plus, any film that has Steve Buscemi NOT as the major anti-hero, is worth of respect. Mighty film.
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Summary: Did you catch Steven Segal in the background?
Review: Bloody, violent and masterfully crafted. Much of the elements that make Pulp Fiction a classic are present in this earlier work. Even down to the key background scenes early in the movie. During the opening diner scene, a muscular patron with a pony tail is paying his check while the gangsters converse. Look closely and you'll see a cameo by Steven Segal!
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Summary: Again, it deserves four and a half, but I can't!
Review: Tarintino may be a jerk in real life, but boy is he good at his job.In his directorial debut, Tarintino tells the story of several criminals who's job is broke in on by the police! Gradually, the survivors arrive at the rendezvous where they try to figure out what went wrong. Anyone who knows the director knows that this movies would be (and is) filled to the teeth with excellent dialogue and time shifts that hieghten the suspense.Also with great acting, neat cinematography, and one of the most gut wrenching scenes ever, RESERVOIR DOGS is a truly wonderful film. Need I say more?
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Summary: These Dogs Bark With Gunfire
Review: Quentin Tarantino's RESERVOIR DOGS is a masterpiece, reaching far past any other film in the crime drama genre. His use of unique camera angles and flashbacks not only qualify it as a great film, but as a fine example of cinematic art. His first effort at directing takes the audience into the world of crime, centering on a group of criminals preparing to pull off a seemingly simple job. From the first minute of the film, he has you guessing as to who these men are, and what their intentions are. His perfect development of characters helps portray the seriousness of the situation, as we soon learn to understand the conflict at hand. Using veteran actors such as Lawrence Tierney as the ringleader and Harvey Keitel as one of the crooks most definitely assisted in upbringing the quality of the picture. Newcomers Steve Buscemi and Tim Roth acted exceptionally, resulting in their being recognized as talented up-and-coming stars. For anyone that enjoys independent films, crime dramas containing plot twists, or just wants to see a well-crafted, fine film...look no further. Because RESERVOIR DOGS is guaranteed to bring the viewer onto a roller-coaster full of crime, humor, and the occasional shoot-out.
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Summary: One of the greatest American movies ever made
Review: This is an outstanding film. For us who are not Americans and for which Hollywood has fallen long, long time ago into a idiocy-generating movie machine, it is exciting to see that still there are good American directors with a full sense of what the movies should be and what mixed emotions the movies should generate on the public. Another example would be Oliver Stone. Tarantino was smart enough to reach new heights based on a very stringent budget -watch out, "spielbergites/holywoodites"! - and on a quite old, eroded theme: jewelry robbery. How he did that? With a very strong, attractive set of dialogues, and with the help of a bunch of very talented actors. Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth and Steve Buscemi are at their best. The opening scene at the restaurant is superb, with smart and fine irony. The scene on which Mr. Blonde is engaged on the "project" is great. The scene on which names are given is also great. The guys who were laughing at the ear-cut scene -as stated by one of your reviewers- are the very same ones that usually support the Spielberg/Whoopie Goldberg/Beavis & Butthead/Mel Gibson/Julia Roberts, Hollywoodesque sort of "movies". Negative I.Q., anencephalia, and lack of culture/formal education are what they have in common. In this particular scene, when I first saw this movie back in 1993, I was about to leave the theater because of the quite strong cruelty depicted there. I remember saying to myself: Oh God, Please don't make him suffer any longer! . But this is the reason why you go to the movie theaters: to feel, to awe, to be terrified, amazed, liberated and even punished; to be transported to some other experiences you do not deal with on a daily basis. And to think and rationalize what you have seen and try to figure out why things are this or that way. This particular scene would be compared -just would- with the stroller and stairway scene on Battleship Potemkin. You are in the edge of your seat waiting for the worst not to happen, and indeed the worst happens! Both scenes show how miserable the human being sometimes is. Languaje is plenty of f* words. Perhaps I'm not very sensitive to that since I don't use to hear them or even use them down here. But let me tell you that bad words in any languaje/country is what you hear on the street, at the bus stop, on the subway etc. Just imagine among thieves! . Tarantino is just not being hypocrite by using this kind of languaje. And, in order to kill all the "spielbergesque" happy endings, a real finale. Definetely, one of the best American movies ever made. For those who didn't like it, please do not watch American History X, Natural Born Killers, Full Metal Jacket, Clockwork Orange or any other mind-challenging movie. Keep stuck into the traditional ones.
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Summary: A Master Piece
Review: This is a must see film it has all everything that makes for methe best film I have ever seen. Although it is viloent it does notdeserve all the mad press that it got when it came out. The acting in this film is outstanding with a list of stars that just add to the films greatness. The directing is also fantastic giving the film a sense realism not food in many films...
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Summary: One of the best of its genre
Review: A group of hired theives get set up while doing a hit on a jewellery store and they suspect its one of them. A very black and clever movie with fantastic acting from the entire cast and brilliant scripting and directing from Tarantino. Beware that the movie has quite a bit of content that some might find very disturbing. Not nearly as funny or enjoyable as Pulp Fiction.
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Summary: impressive.
Review: and I don't mean impressive in the "that was pretty good" terms, I mean impressive in that you are literally going to walk away from this movie with something you did not enter it with. weather that be hatred for the film due to it's unrelenting speed and feurocity, or love for the film due to it's intellengce and non-conformity (and possily for it's unrelenting speed and feurocity too =) ), it's one of those movies that will be with you for a very long time. regardless that Tarantino used other films for his inspiration; this really is - and is viewed today - as one of the very best films of the 1990's. it combines high frequency cinematic adreniline and strangeley thoughtful character study. the biggest diffrence between Dogs and Tarantino's later film, Pulp Fiction, is that Dogs is raw and bleeding while Pulp is a nicley cooked cut of Prime Rib served on a plate with garnish and a pair of cool sunglasses. Dogs meets and exceeds Pulp in many ways. the plot construction is a landmark, the acting absolutley brillant, the directing well done, the cinamatography appropritaley simple, and everything came together very well.this is a haunting film for it's portrayal of sadistically violent foul mouthed theives as living, breathing, tragic human beings. anybody who wasn't effected by the ending of this film must have been blind. five stars is literally every respect.
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Summary: Tremendous movie.......
Review: I loved this movie. Everything was perfect, I loved how it was a mixture of comedy and action all at the same time. I love the way Tarantino directs, Pulp Fiction is my favorite movie of all time, and Reservoir Dogs is not far behind. The characters were so well developed, even though you hardly knew anything about them. My favorite scene had to be the ear scene...its so neat how you follow blonde out to his car, and come back to the music still. I know that this isn't all that informative, but I just hope that whoever reads this will decide to buy the movie...its tremendous.
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Summary: A movie that begs for repeated viewings
Review: I must admit to not really loving this film when it first came out. I was disappointed, as it seemed not to live up to the hype it was given. But the more I watched, the more fascinated I became. The true point of the story may or may not be "Loyalty among thieves," as so many people have said. But it really doesn't matter. At times funny and at other times graphically brutal, it's a must see for fans of Quintin Tarantino, Elmore Leonard-styled stories or just anybody who wants to see something different. It is true that QT nicked certain films for RD (The Wild Bunch, The Killing, Taking of Pelham 123, City on Fire among others) but in the end, it doesn't matter, since he does it in a way that is very much his own vision. Rent it tonight.
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