Movie #48: Reservoir Dogs

Movie #: 48
Movie Title: Reservoir Dogs
Year Released: 1992

Director: Quentin Tarantino
Notable Cast: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney, Michael Madsen

Short Description: After a simple jewelry heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: N/A
IMDB.com: #71
Ranker.com: #47
Lifed.com: #62
Empire.com: #97
FilmCrave.com: #44
FlickChart.com: #25

Note: This is the first movie on my list to appear on six of the top 100 lists I used to compile the 251 movies I’m watching.



Date Watched: 9/17/2016

Grade: 4 out of 5 (Excellent)

Rationale: Upon finally seeing Reservoir Dogs, my opinion of not liking Quentin Tarantino movies has certainly changed for the better. There was just the right amount of classic Tarantino action, even with a small cast confined to a small area for most of the movie, and I found the story to be very smartly written. The few characters that you get back stories for had plenty of depth to explain their part in the crime and I wanted more as I thought it ran a bit short at 1 hour 39 minutes. The audience wanting more is one of the qualities of a great movie, though.