Not as good as City on Fire

Rating: Null/10 (28 November 2000)

I had the rare chance to see Reservoir Dogs and its inspiration Ringo Lam's City on Fire in the same day, and I must say that the City on Fire version is far better than this film.
I cannot pin the reasons why Dogs isn't as good as Fire, they are both very well made, highly directed films. Perhaps because Fire has something more to offer than the "who shall we blame" story of Dogs.
I'm not saying that Dogs is a bad film, its very, very good. Its a 90s classic. Taratino shows that he is a good director but his inspirations (Woo, Lam) cloud this film and his direction.
Even so, this is a good film, but you'd probably enjoy City on Fire more. 7/10