Reservoir Dogs (1992)
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A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange, psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde, bickering weasel Mr. Pink and Nice Guy Eddie -- unravel.
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... Mr. White / Larry Dimmick
... Mr. Orange / Freddy Newandyke
... Mr. Blonde / Vic Vega
... "Nice Guy" Eddie Cabot
... Mr. Pink
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This unique take on the heist-film-gone-wrong was excellent--stylish and intelligently made, yet very funny and inexpensive. Tarantino's accolades from giving American cinema the resuscitation it needed mirrors what has happened, at least since the 70's, with Martin Scorsese's 'Mean Streets', both in terms of entertaining violence and usage of music in the scoring of films. I greatly thank Harvey Keitel for taking a chance on Tarantino back then--It paid off in spades.
Director:
Writer:
Quentin Tarantino (Writer)
Release Date:
1992-09-02
Run Time:
99 min
MMPA Rating:
R
Reviews of
Reservoir Dogs
This unique take on the heist-film-gone-wrong was excellent--stylish and intelligently made, yet very funny and inexpensive. Tarantino's accolades from giving American cinema the resuscitation it needed mirrors what has happened, at least since the 70's, with Martin Scorsese's 'Mean Streets', both in terms of entertaining violence and usage of music in the scoring of films. I greatly thank Harvey Keitel for taking a chance on Tarantino back then--It paid off in spades.
The cuss-oriented squabbles of lowlife crooks for 99 minutes (and no women)
RELEASED IN 1992 and written/directed by Quentin Tarantino, "Reservoir Dogs” is a crime drama/thriller about a diamond heist gone disastrously wrong in Los Angeles wherein the surviving thugs bicker back-and-forth in a warehouse about which of their members is a police informant. The main thieves are played by Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen and Chris Penn while Lawrence Tierney appears as the old salt mastermind.
This was Tarantino’s first feature film, costing only $1,200,000, and it has quirky glimmerings of future greatness, as seen in “Pulp Fiction” (1994), “Jackie Brown” (1997), “Kill Bill” (2003/2004), “Inglourious Basterds” (2009) and “Django Unchained” (2012), but “Reservoir” didn’t work for me. It’s hampered by a low-budget vibe, which I can handle, but not the uninteresting lowlife characters, their self-made conundrum, their interminably dull dialogue and the one-dimensional setting where about 80% of the story takes place in an old warehouse, not to mention no females in the main cast.
Still, it’s interesting to observe Tarantino’s first serious stab at filmmaking and it has its moments of genuine entertainment. It’s a lesson on humble beginnings, which shows potential while not being up to snuff.
THE FILM RUNS 1 hour, 39 minutes and was shot in Los Angeles & Burbank.
GRADE: C-
Nope, I didn't get the memo... After a jewellery heist goes wrong and the escaping funeral-attired hoodlums kill a couple of cops and one gets gut-shot in a car-jacking, they return to their hideout where they turn on each other with expletive-ridden venom. What now ensues is a recreation of the planning and execution of their raid, their introductions to each other and that all lays the seeds for this over-rated drama of brutal mistrust and duplicity. Tim Roth probably stands out as "Mr. Orange" but the rest of the fairly well established cast offer us little by way of sophistication or subtlety as they try to decide which - if any of them - informed the police. It's violent but so what - it's not Scorsese, nor does the story really hold up after it becomes glaringly obvious what is actually going to happen at the end. Quentin Tarantino's directorial debut has shock value, certainly, but I'm afraid I found the whole thing really quite dull. Sorry - but there's more to good writing and characterisation that loads of effing, jeffing, charm-free thuggery and bullets. Not for me!
I don't get it. Feels like nothing happens the whole film. Cool to see Buscemi in this though, I didn't realize he was in such an early one of Tarantino's films.
Cast & Crew of
Reservoir Dogs
Cast
... Mr. White / Larry Dimmick
... Mr. Orange / Freddy Newandyke
... Mr. Blonde / Vic Vega
... "Nice Guy" Eddie Cabot
... Mr. Pink
... Joe Cabot
... Detective Holdaway
... Officer Marvin Nash
... Mr. Blue
... Mr. Brown
... Sheriff #1
... Sheriff #2
... Sheriff #3
... Sheriff #4
... Teddy
... Shot Cop
... Young Cop
... Shocked Woman
... Shot Woman
... K-Billy DJ (voice)
... Background Radio Play (voice)
... Background Radio Play (voice)
... Background Radio Play (voice)
... Background Radio Play (voice)
... Diner Patron (uncredited)
... Cop (uncredited)
... Shot Cop
Crew
... Editor
... Writer
... Executive Producer
... Production Manager
... Producer
... Set Decoration
... Production Design
... Executive Producer
... Special Effects
... Executive Producer
... Costume Design
... Special Effects Coordinator
... Director of Photography
... Casting
... Co-Producer
... Music Supervisor
... Makeup Artist
... Script Supervisor
... Casting Associate
... Driver
... Unit Publicist
... Grip
... Set Medic
... Hairstylist
... Post Production Assistant
... Electrician
... Sound Editor
... Key Grip
... Stunts
... First Assistant Director
... Set Costumer
... Gaffer
... Boom Operator
... Thanks
... First Assistant Camera
... Location Manager
... Craft Service
... Property Master
... Production Accountant
... Leadman
... Steadicam Operator
... Legal Services
... Transportation Coordinator
... Hair Designer
... Stunt Coordinator
... Assistant Sound Editor
... Security
... Transportation Captain
... Dolby Consultant
... Costume Supervisor
... Public Relations
... Color Timer
... First Assistant Editor
... Location Scout
... Dialect Coach
... Production Coordinator
... Best Boy Electric
... Production Sound Mixer
... Supervising Sound Editor
... Second Second Assistant Director
... First Assistant Director
... Supervising Sound Editor
... Sound Editor
... Sound Re-Recording Mixer
... Sound Editor
... Second Second Assistant Director
... Best Boy Grip
... Negative Cutter
... Foley Artist
... Second Assistant Director
... Assistant Music Supervisor
... Swing
... Foley Mixer
... Production Assistant
... Assistant Location Manager
... Assistant Accountant
... Dolly Grip
... Second Assistant Camera
... Key Special Effects
... Extras Casting
... Generator Operator
... Director
... Production Design
... Special Effects Makeup Artist
... Special Effects Makeup Artist
... Swing
... Assistant Property Master
... Foley Artist
... Assistant Sound Editor
... Special Effects Technician
... Visual Effects Supervisor
... Stunts
... Stunts
... Stunts
... Best Boy Electric
... Grip
... Second Unit Director of Photography
... Best Boy Grip
... Electrician
... Extras Casting
... Wardrobe Assistant
... First Assistant Editor
... Negative Cutter
... First Assistant Editor
... First Assistant Editor
... Music Supervisor
... Driver
... Additional Dialogue
... Additional Dialogue
... Stunts
... Special Effects
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