Reservoir Dogs: The Ground Breaking Heist movie minus the heist

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Quentin Tarantino's controversial debut, the critically acclaimed masterpiece goes one step further than to simply breath new life into the arthritic old man that was the heist movie genre, it slips him a viagra and slaps him on the ass.
The movie opens with "the dog's" sitting around a cramped table in a grimy coffee shop. QT introduces the film and the less than lovable characters with summa his classic organic feeling dialogue and stylistic direction, a single shot circling the table, we've all come to know and love. There's probably some political subtext or popculture references hidden amongst the dialogue as the "adorable" group of pyschopaths discuss waitress salaries and the true naught-ey message in Madge's "Like a Virgin" but I don't really care, all I know is that the first 9 minutes made up one of the most hilarious, coarse, eye opening(in Madonna's case) and enjoyable movie openings I have ever seen and set the tone for the remainder of the film.

Reservoir dogs, break neck changes of pace are so dramatic and sudden that they may just give you wiplash but surprisingly don't nessecerily effect the overall experience. Now usually it would be seen as a bad thing for a film to go from the speed of a steroid addicted freight train to the pace of a diabetic slug with breathing problems but Tarantino masterfully makes this work to his advantage.

The fight over the TV remote had got out of hand

The scene transition between the slow and lengthy pre-heist planning, the incredibly fast paced mid-heist antics, and the tension building post botched job shinanigans is utterly seemless and brilliant only adding to the impact and enjoyment of each scene.

The acting is fantastic, each cast member delivering a *cliche alert* performance of a lifetime injecting each of their scenes with an incredible amount of energy and making every one of them unique despite the almost indistinguishable, low budget sets. This especially applys, in my opinion, to Michael Madsen as Mr Blonde who out of the leads gets the least screen time but with it lends his character instant cult status combining so cool it hurts with so pyschotic its painful, literally. He also gets to deliver the most quoteable line of the whole film and is the centre of the most memorable scene, lets just say it involves ear amputation, a banging 70's soundtrack and a whole lot of gasoline... aaah christmas memories.

There was no denying the Strip Club had gone down hill

The violence is purposely over the top and ridiculous yet in most cases actually necessary, and if all pretentiousness and feeling over superiority are discarded at the door then it's genuinely a very enjoyable ride as long as you haven't eaten and aren't apposed to seeing a police man used as a human pinata.

My love for Reservoir Dogs was established after the first 5 minutes and it only went up hill from there, the performances were great, the story was simple yet brilliant, made only better by the genre twist and the direction was stylish and classic Tarantino, I'm giving it 8 out of 10 stars "bloody" brilliant.

Oh and to those that criticize it for its high degree of violence and profanity I ask you this, "Are you gonna bark all day little doggy or are you gonna bite?"... aaaah watch the film

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