Reservoir Dogs

El Biffo

I would like to see this as a stage play! One of the few Tarrantino films I liked, along with Pulp Fiction, and Natural Born Killers.

Lights in the Dusk

That Tarantino was still grappling with the aesthetics of filmmaking works in his favour. While later works would indulge in moments of visual post-modernism & bravura technique copied from earlier films, the comparatively pared back & modest stylisations of "Dogs" places emphasis on the filmmaker's incredible use of language & structure. It remains a remarkably confident & intelligent debut about loyalty & identity.

smndvdcl

QT's defining work: all prelude and aftermath (key event off-screen), ensemble cast, anachronistic pastiche, anecdotal dialogue, French New Wave remix-and-match aesthetic, Video Store clerk inspired debates on Madonna's 'Like a Virgin', counter-cultural response to censorship (violence as a metaphor - a colour to paint the canvas), subversion of causality. Forget Pulp Fiction, the creative limitation here astounds.

Wee Hunk

"And why am I Mr. Pink?" "Because you're a faggot, alright?!" Because this is a man's movie. Manly men with manly guns. You'd better not be gay. That's not manly. It's a dick measuring movie. For macho men.

Nicholas Gregory

Tarantino's dialogue is often annoying as fuck. Even for comedy, his (often sexualized) rants are the asshole/alpha cliche, the rest a rambling geek that dorks about the trivial and monotonous details of something... two types of males I hate. His exchanges sound like he isn't around actual people much. I've talked to this type before and wished they were born with a vagina for real convo. Much like Tarantino.

Zac Weber

Reservoir Dogs is riveting the first time you see it, and it's one of the best debuts ever. The editing is outstanding, and the viewer is granted information in-movie characters do not know, which only adds to the suspense. Classic in every way. Michael Madsen is too fly.

msmichel

Perhaps the greatest debut film of the 90's and certainly the best written. Tarantino's knowing, sharp script is one for the ages despite its being a sum of influences. Performances are all killer with no actor dominating. First saw this at TIFF with a packed house and a record number of walk-outs, but the applause for director and cast afterwards was deafening. A film worth revisiting every so often.

Filipe F. Coutinho

Great debut. But it’s not always a great film. RD is a love letter to exploitation cinema featuring over-the-top violence and a zig-zaggy plot. It lives on the strength of its performers and what they say (both very strong), but it reveals some struggles plot-wise: somewhat meandering with tangents that are not always the most amusing. Buscemi’s insistence on “professionalism” is this film’s crowning achievement.