Tough guys, Violence, the F-Word, the Works!

Rating: 10/10 (29 September 2000)

Reservoir Dogs is a brutally violent, realistic portrayal of criminals with plenty of dark humor to keep you laughing throughout the film. It is unquestionably one of the best movies I have ever seen in terms of dialogue, character development and the depiction of realistic, gory violence. It's your typical Tarantino flick, where the dialogue gives the viewer an in-depth look into the adventures of men who live a morally-deprived life of recklessly breaking the law and attempting to satisfy their insatiable lust for money.
What happens in this movie is pretty simple: a group of gangsters who have personal and business ties to one another decide to rob a diamond warehouse. After the robbery is completed, the gangsters scramble from the cops who are diligently attempting to capture and incarcerate them. During this scramble from the police - which happens to be nearly the entire movie - the thieves come to the conclusion that there is a "rat" in the group. Soon, the gangsters grow paranoid of each and don't know who they can and cannot trust. But before we discover who the rat is, we get an insider's look into the lives of each of the thieves.
Amazingly, Tarantino portrays the gangsters as not only greedy, heartless criminals, but as human beings with feelings of love, anger, fear and so on. In fact in the movie's very first scene, before we see any of the gangsters whip out their pistols and open fire, we see all of the men gathered around a table at a cheap diner, discussing the meaning of Madonna's "Like a Virgin". This scene sets the stage for a funny, macho movie that keeps the viewer on the edge of his seat until the time the credits roll.

This movie is extremely violent, gory and filled with expletives. Reservoir Dogs, like many Tarantino flicks, is not organized chronologically, and can sometimes confuse the viewers as to what is going on. You have to keep your eyes wide open at all times to put the pieces of the puzzle together.
With all this said, do not hesitate to rent Reservoir Dogs. Its a guaranteed winner!