Best heist movie ever.

Rating: Null/10 (3 April 2004)

That's not saying too much, really. But its still one of the best crime story films I've ever seen. The story centers around five career criminals who get hired by a a big-time gangster boss named Floyd (I think). He gives them all color coded names: Mr. Pink, Mr. Orange, Mr. White, Mr. Brown, and Mr. Blonde (played by Michael Madsen, who has black hair). He assigns them to steal diamonds from a jewelry store. But one of them tips off the cops. Then it all goes downhill from there.
The first great thing about this film is that we never see the heist itself. We get the before and after. I'm sure the budget didn't allow Tarantino to shoot it. But, he wrote his script around it, so we don't need it. Second, it freed indie filmmakers from the liberal points of view the indie scene held so dearly. It made the indie world safe for the use of the words "nigger" and "bitch". It also intro'd the indie world to explosive violence, to which its usually averse. It also proves just how crucial editing is to the storytelling process.