
New York Daily News
This movie isn't really about anything. It's just a flashy, stylistically daring exercise in cinematic mayhem.
Full reviewFormer video store clerk Quentin Tarantino's directorial debut. A mob boss hires six strangers to pull off a jewelry store heist. They are knicknamed to hide their identities: Mr White (Harvey Keitel), Mr Orange (Tim Roth), Mr Blonde (Michael Madsen), Mr Pink (Steve Buscemi), Mr Brown (Tarantino) and Mr Blue (Edward Bunker).
The plan backfires and Mr Brown is shot. The survivors gather back at their rendezvous warehouse and realise one of them must be a policement informant, who gave the game away. But who?
LessThis movie isn't really about anything. It's just a flashy, stylistically daring exercise in cinematic mayhem.
Full reviewReservoir Dogs is funny, thrilling, and so unabashedly violent it both shocks you and leaves you giddy at your own capacity for shock.
Full reviewI can't remember a movie getting me so excited about what you could do with a little bit of money, some fine actors, and lots of beautifully profane rhythmic dialogue.
Full reviewGrabs the viewer by the lapels and shakes hard, but it also is about nothing other than a bunch of macho guys and how big their guns are.
Full reviewModestly budgeted crime movie of sometimes dazzling cinematic pyrotechnics and over-the- top dramatic energy.
Full reviewThe movie feels like it's going to be terrific, but Tarantino's script doesn't have much curiosity about these guys.
Full reviewThose who survive it emerge in a shell-shocked euphoria -- so good and so blunt is the writing.
Full reviewRemarkable macho crime caper that is at once violent, sickeningly funny and utterly compelling.
Full reviewTarantino exploits audience savvy, preferring to build anticipation, mesmerise, and then cut away at the climax.
Full reviewReservoir Dogs is available to stream in New Zealand now on Netflix and Apple TV.
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