Reservoir Dogs Review

Reservoir Dogs is a movie that was released in 1992 that was written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. The movie is about a diamond robbery that turns bad when the cops show up at the scene of the crime. The problem is that there is no way that the police should of known about the heist, it was top secret and no alarms were set off. It is obvious that one of the six men was a rat. The movie is centered on finding out who the rat was of the six men. (It should be noted that all the men have aliases) The movie ends with just about every person involved in the heist dead and the admitting by one of the men that he was the rat.  I feel the an underlying idea is that you can trust no one.

 In my opinion the acting in the movie was very well done. Especially by Tim Roth who played the role of Mr. Orange and was in the process of bleeding out the whole movie due to a gunshot wound to the gut. Another actor who stood out to me was Lawrence Tierney who plays the role of Joe Cabot the leader of this heist crew. He gives off that classic feel of a mob boss with a short temper who can also act jolly at times.

The way the movie is made is in a very unique style. The story of the heist going wrong is told my firsthand views of nearly all six men yet the actual heist is never seen. Mixed in with this are flashbacks of the lives of some of the six men. These flashbacks all take place before the heist and make for a very interesting way of telling the whole story. Also it should be noted that the movie setting mostly takes place in one area, a warehouse where the men were to meet after the heist. It is similar to how all the men are stuck in a room arguing like in 12 Angry Men.

I would highly suggest watching this film. It kept me on the edge of bed the whole time wondering who would be shot next and who would side with who in the argument over who snitched. This movie fits the theme of well actually none of ten themes Mr. Salkil gave us… If I had to give it a theme it would be the loss of innocence because Mr. Orange goes undercover for the first time a police and discovers how hard it can be and how fast people can die. I would give this movie four and a half Ian’s out of five it is the perfect mix of a mystery and action film.