loved it

Rating: Null/10 (13 January 2003)

I had never actually seen reservoir dogs all the way through, just enough of it in bits and pieces to know what the story was....so last night, i watched it...more for the camera work then the story, and for the location usage, since he really only uses the warehouse... although tarentino violates the "show, don't tell" rule, it seems to slip by in this movie, he gets where hes going in the conflict by getting the viewer to start wondering if there was a set up and who the cop was and its a nod to the actors that both Mr. Blonde and Nice Guy Eddie were so shifty looking, so "something else is going on", in their mannerisms..the only character that i thought was underplayed was Mr. Blue..he really had no role in this, not sure why he was there...he seemed like an extra voice in the chorus... the characters and their blatent sexism and racism only made me more disgusted with them, and wished they would all die, there was nobody to cheer for (minus steve buscemi only for the fact he WAS steve buscemi and always someone to cheer for)...other than him, they were all evil characters... there was tension when the cop was found out, and then you had to realize what he had to go through watching the other cops die and the innocents get shot, he could do nothing, he had to stay undercover. I wonder how Mr.Brown died though, he just had what looked like a bad cut on his head, then he was dead, did Mr. Orange shoot him? then why didn't Mr. White notice that? perhaps the heat ofthe moment. Anyways, i enjoyed it.... Q