Tarantino's Original Masterpiece

Rating: 9/10 (1 July 2004)

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There may be what are considered as spoilers in the below paragraph.
From the opening scene in the family restaurant in which all of the characters are having breakfast and having candid conversation, you are left questioning...What does this have to do with the movie? And that is the brilliance of Tarantino's films. He lures you in by intriguing you with regular everyday things that shouldn't intrigue you. And yet you are drawn in by this quirky and wonderful dialogue that can require deeper thought or even laughter...many times both. It is both the trivial nature and great directing and camera work that really draws you into this first scene of Reservoir Dogs. The same will recur throughout the rest of the film, but you never can really know when. You are just hit with this conversation between characters....Why? You don't know, Quentin is probably the only one that truly does, but you love him for it. The extended continuous shots at odd angles and in odd positions make this and all other Tarantino films just great to watch. If you like movies, you like Tarantino, because it is his love of movies that produce such original and amazing pieces of film-making. This movie is very brutal and gut-wrenching throughout, but this is broken up by, again, the great dialogue and light-hearted intermissions from the nerve-racking. Tarantino gives you a great picture of each character, telling you certain information only when he wants you to know. He may show a character's background at the beginning, he may wait until the very end, but his movies keep you guessing, and he always finds the perfectly twisted finish that nobody could guess the outcome. It is just the curious nature of his best, and earliest films....and Reservoir Dogs is a great example. It is one of the most brutal films that I have seen, yet it is also one of the best.