Tarantino strikes gold with his first film

Rating: 9/10 (18 August 2019)

As far as entertainment goes, you don't get much better than Reservoir Dogs. Tarantino's feature film debut is not a profound piece of work but it is bursting with energy and is a whole lot of fun. A witty, stylish, funny and bloody paranoid heist flick, that has a brisk pace, memorable characters and great dialogue. There is not much depth to the story; it's basically a robbery gone wrong, where the survivors end up in a warehouse and try to figure out who set them up. But when a movie is this much fun and this well made, having a light plot is not a hindrance to the overall quality. The performances by Keitel, (Mr. White) Roth, (Mr. Orange) Madsen, (Mr. Blonde) Buscemi, (Mr. Pink) Penn (Nice Guy Eddie) and Tierney (Joe Cabot) are intense, witty, funny and bursting with so much vitality, that they literally jump off the screen. Tarantino hits it out of the park with his first film. What a way to kick off a career that has now spanned for almost three decades. Every film that he has made since Reservoir Dogs owes a debt of gratitude to this indie darling that started it all.