I did not care for the fact that this was a nonlinear film

Rating: Null/10 (27 July 2011)

The film begins with eight men having a discussion and eating breakfast at a diner. They using aliases and have on identical suits. Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen), Mr. Blue (Eddie Bunker), Mr. Brown (Quentin Tarantino), Mr. Orange (Tim Roth), Mr. Pink (Steve Buscemi), and Mr. White (Harvey Keitel). There is also a ganger leader Joe Cabot (Lawrence Tierney) and his son Eddie Cabot (Chris Penn). The film cuts to Mr. White driving a speeding car while he tries to comfort Mr. Orange who is bleeding in the back seat of the car. The men arrive at an abandoned warehouse. We soon find out the eight men are a part of a group of thieves that were hired by Joe Cabot to rob a jewelry store. The men were ambushed by the police as they were robbing the store. Mr. Pink, Mr. Blonde, and Joe Cabot show up at the warehouse and they are trying to determine which person in the group has tipped off the police regarding the robbery. Joe Cabot is the only person who does not believe there is a snitch in the group.
The theme of the film is surrounded around eight thieves who are involved in a failed jewelry store robbery, and them trying to figure out who the snitch is in their group. The film is nonlinear and resembles the film done by the same director, Quentin Tarantino, called Pulp Fiction. The film has continuous flashbacks that depict how each of the men came to be a part of the jewelry heist. This was one technique of the film that I did not like. I thought it was very difficult to follow the story because of all of the flashbacks that were involved. The setting for a majority of the film was in the abandoned warehouse. This warehouse was the meeting place for the thieves once the robbery was complete. The lighting in the warehouse was dark and helped bring out the secrecy and the ugly things that were going on inside of it, such as a bleeding Mr. Orange and Mr. Blonde torturing of the police officer. I especially enjoyed the song that was played as Mr. Blonde tortured the police officer. It clearly displayed the subjective state of mind of Mr. Blonde. He clearly enjoyed doing what he was doing. It made me laugh out loud. The film ends with two very surprising twists that I will not reveal here. However, they involve the revelation of who the snitch is in the group, and what actually happens to the remainder of the thieves and Joe and Eddie Cabot.
I liked the surprise ending of the film, but I did not care for the fact that this was a nonlinear film.