This movie was the way that Tarantino tried to say: THIS IS ME, AND THIS IS MY MATERIAL, GET USE TO IT!

Rating: 10/10 (16 June 2013)

If Tarantino is nowadays a legend of cinema, was because of this film; if today's movies have black humor with violence was because of this movie; if Tarantino's films are all great, the 1st would be no different. That's "Reservoir Dogs", the 1st deliver from the master Tarantino movie! As I mentioned before, "Reservoir Dogs" was the great presentation of Tarantino into cinema and the beginning of his lineage of insane dialogs, filled with black humor and violence drenched in blood and even more with unforgettable characters, none of that is missing here in "Reservoir".
Everything starts with 8 guys hanging out in a restaurant to discussion about the meaning of the song "Like a Virgin" by Madonna and also about give tips to the waitresses, whether they are fair or not. Right there at in the beginning we see the philosophy of Tarantino with a simple, intelligent and humorous dialog between these eight characters that have a strange chemistry. But later found out that the group was planning an assault, we deduce that went terribly wrong when we see Mr. Orange (Tim Roth) bathed in blood with a shot in the belly and with the desperate Mr. White (Harvey Keitel) taking him into a warehouse, the supposed meeting point. Soon after enters the "professional" Mr. Pink claiming that someone has betrayed them, that there was a snitch among the group. According to the assault, the survivors arrive one by one: the sinister Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen) and the nervous Nice Guy Eddie (Chris Penn) and the tension between the 8 men increases.
But Tarantino already had his style of different perspectives of a story right at the beginning of his career, throughout the film the story not only focuses attention on the warehouse and increasing tension between the men, but most of the time does flashbacks of each the characters showing how they planned the robbery and what went wrong on it and who is the snitch of the group. All this followed by an excellent writing and direction from Tarantino, full of black humor and racist references and insane dialogs with various themes somehow connected to the story and with the delicious and terrifying violence. But Tarantino not only directs but it also acts as a member of the group, Mr. Brown, it was him that deduced the meaning of the song "Like A Virgin" at the beginning.
The cast, as in any Tarantino film, shines with excellent performances and its unforgettable characters. Harvey Keitel as always superb; Michael Madsen terrifying, Steve Buscemi as always weird and excellent, Tim Roth simply FANTASTIC.
"Reservoir" was the big premiere of Tarantino in the 7th art with a fantastic writing and direction, with a superb cast and a insane at the same time fun story. "Resevoir Dogs" was the first and memorable masterpiece of the legendary Quentin Tarantino.