Reservoir Dogs

 

Reservoir Dogs 1992

• Director: Quentin Tarantino
• Seen by this director: Once upon a Time in Hollywood, The Hateful Eight, Django Unchained, Inglourious Basterds, Kill Bill 1&2, Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction
• Based on the book: no
• Cast: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi, Quentin Tarantino
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Harvey Keitel – Moonrise Kingdom, Inglourious Basterds, Be Cool, Lulu on the Bridge, Copland, Clockers, Smoke, Pulp Fiction, The Piano, Sister Act, Thelma and Louise, The January Man, The Last Temptation of Christ, Taxi Driver, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
• Tim Roth – The Hateful Eight, Selma, The Liability, Broken, To Kill a King, The Planet of the Apes, Gridlock’d, Rob Roy, Pulp Fiction, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
• Michael Madsen – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Hateful Eight, 45 RPM, Kill Bill, Pauly Shore Is Dead, Donny Brasco, Thelma & Louise, The Doors, Almost Blue
• Steve Buscemi – Paris je t’aime, The Sopranos, Romance & Cigarettes, Big Fish, 28 Days, Fargo, Living in Oblivion, Pulp Fiction, Billy Bathgate, Barton Fink, Mystery Train
• Quentin Tarantino – Like Alfred Hitchcock, he pops up now and then
• Why? Tarantino
• Seen: once before. Now 14 February 2023.      

       The first time I saw this, I didn’t know that Tarantino was a Thing. Maybe because it’s his first film and he wasn’t a Thing yet. By now I’ve seen most of his films and I’ve liked them all. I remember liking this one too and it’s been on my ‘must-see-again-immediately-list’ for several years. So – now.

       A gang of tough guys call themselves Reservoir Dogs, but their planned heist goes very wrong.

       There’s plenty of violence, no surprise there. Plenty of talk. In fact, almost all talk. Not a single woman and only one person of colour. Very white macho. It’s far from as good as his later films and I’m not really sure why I liked it the first time. Well, Tim Roth and Steve Buscemi of course. And it does have something, a hint of coming genius. 

3* of 5