oliverhardy-00798
People said it draws inspiration from city on fire, but inspiration is to inspired a film that should deliver some sort of originality that sepereates the two. Reservoir dogs uses all the important plot point and just switch minor detail for western audiences minus the actions. If you seen one you basically seen the other.
Wuchak
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-
Bento de Espinosa
Is Tarantino a religion? It seems so, then there is no other way to explain why this movie's rating is so high. It should not be more than 5 stars.It is a very talky movie about a bunch of criminals who are supposed to be professionals, but instead act and talk like teenagers and permanently yell at each other.Very thin story. Lots of overacting.
