Reservoir Dogs

A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange, psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde, bickering weasel Mr. Pink and Nice Guy Eddie -- unravel.

Cast

Harvey Keitel

as Mr. White / Larry Dimmick

Tim Roth

as Mr. Orange / Freddy Newandyke

Michael Madsen

as Mr. Blonde / Vic Vega

Chris Penn

as "Nice Guy" Eddie Cabot

Steve Buscemi

as Mr. Pink

Lawrence Tierney

as Joe Cabot

Randy Brooks

as Detective Holdaway

Kirk Baltz

as Officer Marvin Nash

Edward Bunker

as Mr. Blue

Quentin Tarantino

as Mr. Brown

Reviews

talisencrw

This unique take on the heist-film-gone-wrong was excellent--stylish and intelligently made, yet very funny and inexpensive. Tarantino's accolades from giving American cinema the resuscitation it needed mirrors what has happened, at least since the 70's, with Martin Scorsese's 'Mean Streets', both i...

Wuchak

The cuss-oriented squabbles of lowlife crooks for 99 minutes (and no women) RELEASED IN 1992 and written/directed by Quentin Tarantino, "Reservoir Dogs” is a crime drama/thriller about a diamond heist gone disastrously wrong in Los Angeles wherein the surviving thugs bicker back-and-forth in a w...

CinemaSerf

Nope, I didn't get the memo... After a jewellery heist goes wrong and the escaping funeral-attired hoodlums kill a couple of cops and one gets gut-shot in a car-jacking, they return to their hideout where they turn on each other with expletive-ridden venom. What now ensues is a recreation of the pla...

rsanek

I don't get it. Feels like nothing happens the whole film. Cool to see Buscemi in this though, I didn't realize he was in such an early one of Tarantino's films....

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