Reservoir Dogs - Review

Whenever I see Quentin Tarantino in interviews or acting or just talking in general, I just cringe. I don't really know what it is. Maybe I feel like he is really self-absorbed and pretentious? Who knows. However, I can't lie, the man knows how to make a damn good movie. Or, sorry. Let me re-phrase that. "Dat n**** knows how to make some damn good motha f***in' films mother f***a." Yes. This man uses the N-Word along with other swear words quite a bit in his movies as well as tons of over the top gruesome violence. SPOILER ALERT. A man gets his ear cut off and shot in the face a couple scenes later. It's rather unpleasant. Even with all the gross violence and over the top cussing, you still watch his movies because he knows how to direct his actors to get a great performance. Every single one of his movies are full of great and natural dialogue coming from every single one of this actors and it really shows here. Although Tim Roth may be a bit over the top in some scenes for my liking, he's still pretty good in the role of Mr. Orange. Very few directors can have a scene with a bunch of people sitting around a table talking about a Madonna song and whether or not it's ethical to tip. You'd think you'd be bored in a scene like this, but no, you get intensely invested and you know what? For a moment there, this movie had me on the side of "you shouldn't tip". This is coming from a guy who worked at a bar all summer long. Dialogue and the way his characters speak is definitely one of Tarantino's strengths. His other strength is telling a story out of order. Tarantino does a great job at telling the story based on character's perspectives and allowing the audience to be surprised when events happen followed by a back story about how those scenarios came to be. If this movie was told chronologically, all the suspense, mystery, intrigue would all be washed away and the 'twists' so to speak wouldn't exist because we would see them coming from a mile away. A movie about a bank robbery that doesn't show the actual bank robbery but shows parts before and after in alternating order seems like a mess of an idea on paper, but Tarantino is the man to make it work. If you can handle some mindf***s, then Reservoir Dogs is a good film to check out.