You wanna squirm?

Rating: 7/10 (21 July 2005)

"Pulp Fiction" had the shot in the car, and the "Kill Bill" movies had, well, various death scenes. But "Reservoir Dogs"...ah, now this one will make your skin crawl. It focuses on a heist gone wrong. That's the most minimal description of the plot. Most of the movie has the various characters trying to figure out who did what. And then, there's the...well, let's just call it the ear scene. You will very likely squirm during that scene.
If nothing else, we can say that Quentin Tarantino gave us a preview of his later films. Maybe his later films don't make your skin crawl, but but they all deal with lowlife culture. And you'd better believe that the characters in this movie are lowlifes. If absolutely nothing else, "Reservoir Dogs" shows us that violent, gross movies can be masterpieces.