Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 98m
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi, Chris Penn
Synopsis:
Six men in black suits undertake a robbery of a jeweller's store, which misfires because one of them is an undercover cop.
Review:
A film with much to answer for. It revealed a writer-director with a taste for unflinching violence and an ear for inconsequential dialogue, both of which were imitated by others with less of a grip on structure. Its iconography was hugely popularised, and influential in making violent crime films reach a wider audience than the Hong Kong strain that inspired it. (Based loosely on City on Fire, it took its story from a dozen pulp predecessors from Rififi onwards, and its coloured names from The Taking of Pelham 123.) It revived Keitel's career, launched Roth's American one, and those of Madsen and Buscemi, and made the use of oldie soundtracks an art form rather than simply a short cut to period atmosphere. Otherwise it's as compelling, taut and fresh a piece of cinema as one might expect to see in such genre clothing, and, for an independent debut, it is technically hard to fault.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 98m
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi, Chris Penn
Synopsis:
Six men in black suits undertake a robbery of a jeweller's store, which misfires because one of them is an undercover cop.
Review:
A film with much to answer for. It revealed a writer-director with a taste for unflinching violence and an ear for inconsequential dialogue, both of which were imitated by others with less of a grip on structure. Its iconography was hugely popularised, and influential in making violent crime films reach a wider audience than the Hong Kong strain that inspired it. (Based loosely on City on Fire, it took its story from a dozen pulp predecessors from Rififi onwards, and its coloured names from The Taking of Pelham 123.) It revived Keitel's career, launched Roth's American one, and those of Madsen and Buscemi, and made the use of oldie soundtracks an art form rather than simply a short cut to period atmosphere. Otherwise it's as compelling, taut and fresh a piece of cinema as one might expect to see in such genre clothing, and, for an independent debut, it is technically hard to fault.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 98m
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi, Chris Penn
Synopsis:
Six men in black suits undertake a robbery of a jeweller's store, which misfires because one of them is an undercover cop.
Review:
A film with much to answer for. It revealed a writer-director with a taste for unflinching violence and an ear for inconsequential dialogue, both of which were imitated by others with less of a grip on structure. Its iconography was hugely popularised, and influential in making violent crime films reach a wider audience than the Hong Kong strain that inspired it. (Based loosely on City on Fire, it took its story from a dozen pulp predecessors from Rififi onwards, and its coloured names from The Taking of Pelham 123.) It revived Keitel's career, launched Roth's American one, and those of Madsen and Buscemi, and made the use of oldie soundtracks an art form rather than simply a short cut to period atmosphere. Otherwise it's as compelling, taut and fresh a piece of cinema as one might expect to see in such genre clothing, and, for an independent debut, it is technically hard to fault.