Reservoir Dogs is an exceptional 1990's classic and is the film that began the career of one of the greatest directors!

Rating: 10/10 (25 January 2013)

Now, I'm a big fan of all of Tarantino's big movies such as Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained and Inglorious Basterds having loved all and appreciated his brilliant style and entertaining dialogue. As a writer, I believe Tarantino is the best of all time and that Pulp Fiction is easily one of the best movies ever. Now, I've been excited to see this movie for a while as I adore Tarantino's work.
Reservoir Dogs is a mob movie about a mob who begin to suspect each other to being an undercover police officer, and thus a traitor, after a jewellery robbery is tracked down by police. This film is so cleverly done, making this Tarantino's first movie in which the film is chronologically mixed up. Most of the flashback scenes are done well...to me, I did find the dialogue in the movie not as great as that in Pulp Fiction and the characters no where near as good as they were in his '94 masterpiece but still enjoyed them nevertheless.
The problem I had with this movie, despite it being a Tarantino movie is the extended runtime in the movie. Despite being a 90 minute movie, I found myself thinking that a good 10 minutes could've been cut from this movie, especially since the dialogue wasn't as good as Tarantino's later work. Don't get me wrong. I did enjoy them but they didn't strike me the same way that his other films did.
The acting in this movie is very well in this movie even with a nice cameo role from Tarantino himself in his first movie. I really liked the style in which Tarantino approached his debut movie. He could so easily have made a basic movie but decided to try a new method to film making which takes real courage to do so.
The film was very violent, funny and entertaining despite this being my least favorite Tarantino movie by a tiny bit. I thoroughly enjoyed it still for its acting, the story, the characters and the dialogue, despite it being his weakest.
Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs is an absolute must see for any lover of classic movies and it certainly deserves to be called one!