A Great Directorial Debut

Rating: 9/10 (11 August 2019)

I just watched Reservoir Dogs for the first time in a while.
This movie blew me away when I first watched it in the early 1990's and I still love it. I have always considered this Quentin Tarantino's best movie.
The dialogue is amazing. After watching so much awful dialogue in movies lately, I appreciated this even more, this dialogue just pops!!
We only see parts of the escape from bungled diamond heist in flashbacks, and we do not actually see the heist itself, instead we get the aftermath.
As for the acting, everyone is superb. None more so than Michael Madsen, he has a menacing screen presence only a few actors achieve!! He is amazing. We're it not for Madsen, Harvey Kietel would have walked away with the movie. Steve Buscemi is fantastic as the frantic Mr Pink too. There is seriously not a weak link in the cast.
Amazingly. this was filmed on a budget of $1.2 million.
This is quite an achievement for a first time writer/director. A great movie.
I was shocked to see it only grossed $2.8 million at the domestic box office. It grossed £6.3 million in the UK. True story it did not get a home video release until 1995.