Excellent crime drama is loaded with black comedy.

Rating: 9/10 (8 April 2007)

A band of criminals (Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Edward Bunker, Quentin Tarantino and Lawrence Tierney) are planning the perfect crime by rubbing diamonds for their upcoming heist. The heist isn't well planned as they thought and the criminals also thinks that there's a rat in their gag. But time is running out for these criminals.
Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill Vol.1 & Vol.2, Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction) made an fascinating crime film with interesting characters, sharp dialogue and moments of dark humour. This independent movie was well received by the critics and did fine at the art-house circuit. The performances are excellent, especially by Buscemi, Roth and Madsen. Madsen has the most talked about infamous sequence in the movie. The picture was certainly a hit big on video.
DVD has an sharp anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1) transfer and an strong DTS 6.1 ES Audio (Also in Dolby Digital 5.1 Ex Audio). Disc One two informative commentaries. Commentary one is the cast & crew. Commentary two is by the film critics. Also Disc One has amusing Pulp Factoids opinion. Disc two has plenty of features for the 15th anniversary edition. Although there's some features are not in this new DVD, back from the 10th anniversary edition. This is certainly a breakthrough movie, it was Tarantino's first film. Since Tarantino has a top cast and crew. Keitel co-produced this movie as well. One of the best pictures of 1992. Super 35. (**** 1/2 out of *****).