Lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of gore

Rating: 9/10 (10 October 2005)

SOME POSSIBLE SPOILERS: There's more blood shed in Reservoir Dogs than in many a military battle. So if you find that kind of thing sick-making (and many do), this is DEFINITELY not the movie for you. But if you have seen other of Quentin Tarantino's films and liked them, this is a must see. Although the acting is quite good -- I'd single out Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth and Steve Buscemi -- this is Tarantino's movie. Nobody does controlled menace and uncontrolled violence the way he does. If it weren't a movie but something happening in front of our eyes, we'd trample one another to death in the rush to the exit. There haven't been many movies in my lifetime that inspire that sense of being in the middle of something absolutely dreadful. That goes especially for the scene in which one of the hoods carves up a young cop he's captured and prepares to burn him to a crisp before he is blown away himself. Definitely not for the squeamish. Some of the sci fi, horror and "action" movies may be equally violent. I wouldn't know because I don't go to those types of movies. But this is pretty damn strong stuff.