Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786304490105
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6304490100
Label: Live / Artisan
Manufacturer: Live / Artisan
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Live / Artisan
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 18, 1997
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 14406
Studio: Live / Artisan
Theatrical Release Date: October 23, 1992
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Description:
They were perfect strangers, assembled to pull off the perfect crime. Then their simple robbery explodes into a bloody ambush, and the ruthless killers realize one of them is a police informer. But which one? Critically acclaimed for its raw power and breathtaking ferocity, it's a brilliant new American gangster movie classic from writer-director Quentin Tarantino!
Amazon.com:
Quentin Tarantino came out of nowhere (i.e., a video store in Manhattan Beach, California) and turned Hollywood on its ear in 1992 with his explosive first feature, Reservoir Dogs. Like Tarantino's mainstream breakthrough Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs has an unconventional structure, cleverly shuffling back and forth in time to reveal details about the characters, experienced criminals who know next to nothing about each other. Joe (Lawrence Tierney) has assembled them to pull off a simple heist, and has gruffly assigned them color-coded aliases (Mr. Orange, Mr. Pink, Mr. White) to conceal their identities from being known even to each other. But something has gone wrong, and the plan has blown up in their faces. One by one, the surviving robbers find their way back to their prearranged warehouse hideout. There, they try to piece together the chronology of this bloody fiasco--and to identify the traitor among them who tipped off the police. Pressure mounts, blood flows, accusations and bullets fly. In the combustible atmosphere these men are forced to confront life-and-death questions of trust, loyalty, professionalism, deception, and betrayal. As many critics have observed, it is a movie about 'honor among thieves' (just as Pulp Fiction is about redemption, and Jackie Brown is about survival). Along with everything else, the movie provides a showcase for a terrific ensemble of actors: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen, Christopher Penn, and Tarantino himself, offering a fervent dissection of Madonna's 'Like a Virgin' over breakfast. Reservoir Dogs is violent (though the violence is implied rather than explicit), clever, gabby, harrowing, funny, suspenseful, and even--in the end--unexpectedly moving. (Don't forget that 'Super Sounds of the Seventies' soundtrack, either.) Reservoir Dogs deserves just as much acclaim and attention as its follow-up, Pulp Fiction, would receive two years later. --Jim Emerson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - What a DOG of a flick
I love Pulp Fiction, so I thought this must be a great movie, too. I'm baffled by the positive reviews. This movie has a great cast but a simple plot. I kept waiting for it to make some sense or interest me. It never happened. Once is too many times to view this movie. Don't waste your money. It doesn't live up to all the hype.
Rating:  - One of the best!!
Do not miss this movie, a crime classic. Violent, disturbing, and simply awesome. The music is really sick too.
Rating: - Bad Dog!
I rented this movie because I heard that it was such a gangster classic. Man, whoever gave this movie a rating of classic couldn't be more wrong. Don't get me wrong this movie was full of talent, but the movie itself was just horrible. We jump from the events prior to the diamond heist to the chaos that followed after. We didn't get to see the actual heist or the crews shootout with the cops just them talk about it. I don't know about you, but I personally would rather see the action for myself.
Another reason why i disliked this film was beacuse it left to many questions unanswered, like what how and when did Mr. Blue get killed. And Mr. Brown's deaf was so unbelievable. One minute his driving the getaway car and the next he's dead? HORRIBLE FILM!
Rating: - "So, are you gonna bark all day, little doggy, or are you gonna bite?" ;]
In your travels through 'Film-Land' the road may have many twists and many turns, but eventually it will deposit you in front of a Tarantino flick - whether you choose to remain there is up to you.
Before the much-ballyhooed commercial success of Pulp Fiction Quentin got the alchemy *just right* in Reservoir Dogs, a fantastic movie with a fantastic cast about a bank job (and undercover bust) gone so wrong on so many levels...
"So, are you gonna bark all day, little doggy, or are you gonna bite?" ;]
Rating: - ANOTHER GREAT MASTERPIECE
This is another great masterpiece from the great director Quentin Tarantino , great story , great acting , not as good as Pulp Fiction in my opinion but still a great movie and highly recommended.
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