First things first: no matter how popular he has become since or what movie he has made afterward, Reservoir Dogs is still Tarantinos greatest film. Dont get me wrong, Pulp Fiction is a great film too, but this one tops it and is a genuine modern masterpiece. I guess we all know the story, Joe Cabot recruits seven though guys and his son to do a heist. The job turns into a bloodbath and the men suspect that there is a rat amongst them and spend the rest of the movie trying to figure out whos who. Quentin Tarantino burst onto the scene with this magnificent directorial debut and things never were the same again. All the elements were here from the start. He gathered a top notch cast, told a story out of chronological order, in which we never actually get to see the heist the movie revolves around, filled the movie with a plethora of pop culture and cinematic references, wrote ultra smooth, witty and cool dialogue, added a healthy dose of violence and laid it all out to an eclectic and highly original soundtrack whilst directing the whole thing with verve. The film firmly put Tarantino on the map, was part of a Harvey Keitel renaissance, basically introduced the world to Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Chris Penn and Michael Madsen (who had all been around and done plenty of films but never got the exposure they received through Dogs), brought back Hollywood legend Lawrence Tierney and even started a brief fad of pretty violent films, dubbed the Nouvelle Violence by critics at the time. The fad didnt last but Reservoir Dogs has surely stood the test of time. Compulsory viewing.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 13:53:52 +0000
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