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Actor: Edward Bunker, Kirk Baltz, Randy Brooks, Steve Buscemi, Suzanne Celeste
Brand: Lions Gate
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2007-02-06
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate

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Movie Review: Arguably Tarantino's finest film
Summary: 5 Stars

This film is Tarantino's debut as a feature film writer/director. It has, however, been consigned to "cult" status, which is unfair but most certainly puts it in good company.

Jumping around through flashbacks (a favored Tarantino technique), Reservoir Dogs is a puzzle of bits and pieces (sometimes contradictory - another Tarantino characteristic) that tell the tale of an organized crime robbery gone wrong. Also, typical of Tarantino, you never see the robbery itself, only the consequences. Some people don't care for Tarantino's penchant for this cinema style but it is what he is, and so there you are.

While Reservoir Dogs is a violent film (and definitely NOT suitable for younger viewers), it does not approach the level of gratuitous violence that is beginning to define him (the Kill Bill films, for example).

If you can handle (or enjoy, as I do) Tarantino's style, and also the violence, this is a great movie - well told, great acting, beautifully shot and edited.

The Blu-Ray DVD version is exceptional - great visual resolution, detail and color, and an outstanding audio soundtrack.

Few directors have started out so well. Time will tell whether Quentin Tarantino can live up to such an auspicious beginning.

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Summary of Reservoir Dogs (15th Anniversary Edition) [Blu-ray]

Four Perfect Killers. One Perfect Crime. Critically acclaimed for its raw power and breathtaking ferocity, it's the brilliant American gangster movie classic from writer-director Quentin Tarantino. They were perfect strangers, assembled to pull off the perfect crime. Then their simple robbery explodes into bloody ambush, and the ruthless killers realize one of them is a police informer. But which one?

Quentin Tarantino came out of nowhere (i.e., a video store in Manhattan Beach, California) and turned Hollywood on its ear in 1992 with his explosive first feature, Reservoir Dogs. Like Tarantino's mainstream breakthrough Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs has an unconventional structure, cleverly shuffling back and forth in time to reveal details about the characters, experienced criminals who know next to nothing about each other. Joe (Lawrence Tierney) has assembled them to pull off a simple heist, and has gruffly assigned them color-coded aliases (Mr. Orange, Mr. Pink, Mr. White) to conceal their identities from being known even to each other. But something has gone wrong, and the plan has blown up in their faces. One by one, the surviving robbers find their way back to their prearranged warehouse hideout. There, they try to piece together the chronology of this bloody fiasco--and to identify the traitor among them who tipped off the police. Pressure mounts, blood flows, accusations and bullets fly. In the combustible atmosphere these men are forced to confront life-and-death questions of trust, loyalty, professionalism, deception, and betrayal. As many critics have observed, it is a movie about "honor among thieves" (just as Pulp Fiction is about redemption, and Jackie Brown is about survival). Along with everything else, the movie provides a showcase for a terrific ensemble of actors: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen, Christopher Penn, and Tarantino himself, offering a fervent dissection of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" over breakfast. Reservoir Dogs is violent (though the violence is implied rather than explicit), clever, gabby, harrowing, funny, suspenseful, and even--in the end--unexpectedly moving. (Don't forget that "Super Sounds of the Seventies" soundtrack, either.) Reservoir Dogs deserves just as much acclaim and attention as its follow-up, Pulp Fiction, would receive two years later. --Jim Emerson

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