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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.
rsanek
Apr 23, 2024 · via TMDB
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.
CinemaSerf
Jan 4, 2024 · via TMDB
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!
Wuchak
Jun 4, 2018 · via TMDB
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-
talisencrw
May 14, 2016 · via TMDB
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.
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Mr. White / Larry Dimmick
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Mr. Orange / Freddy Newandyke
Michael Madsen
Mr. Blonde / Vic Vega
Chris Penn
"Nice Guy" Eddie Cabot
Steve Buscemi
Mr. Pink
Lawrence Tierney
Joe Cabot
Randy Brooks
Detective Holdaway
Kirk Baltz
Officer Marvin Nash
Edward Bunker
Mr. Blue
Quentin Tarantino
Mr. Brown
Rich Turner
Sheriff #1
David Steen
Sheriff #2
Robert Ruth
Shot Cop
Lawrence Bender
Young Cop
Linda Kaye
Shocked Woman
Steven Wright
K-Billy DJ (voice)
Maria Strova
Background Radio Play (voice)
Burr Steers
Background Radio Play (voice)
Craig Hamann
Background Radio Play (voice)
Scott McElroy
Cop (uncredited)
David Wasco
Production Design
Sandy Reynolds-Wasco
Set Decoration
Andrzej Sekula
Director of Photography
Ziad Doueiri
First Assistant Camera
Ross Katz
Grip
Mary Claire Hannan
Costume Supervisor
Howard Berger
Special Effects Makeup Artist
Wayne Toth
Special Effects Makeup Artist
Quentin Tarantino
Additional Dialogue
Roger Avary
Additional Dialogue
Bruce Comtois
Security
Charlie Estepp
Stunts
Marian Green
Stunts
Quentin Tarantino
Director
Sally Menke
Editor
Ronnie Yeskel
Casting
Harvey Keitel
Co-Producer
Monte Hellman
Executive Producer
Richard N. Gladstein
Executive Producer
Lawrence Bender
Producer
Ron Bartlett
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Stephen Hunter Flick
Supervising Sound Editor
Quentin Tarantino
Writer
Jan 21, 1992
Sundance Film Festival
Sep 8, 1992
Los Angeles, California
Oct 12, 1992
New York City, New York
Oct 23, 1992
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