Reservoir Dogs

Most filmmakers wish that they could make a picture as excellent as Reservoir Dogs once in their careers - much alone as their feature debut. While this is hardly Tarantino's greatest work, there could not be a more strong and secure career debut. Not only does it have all of Tarantino's markings, but it also touches on topics that Tarantino would revisit, as he concentrates on power relations, masculinity, and self-destruction.

Of course, you do not notice these things right away in Reservoir Dogs. What you see first are some nice people in cool suits, conversing in the manner in which we hope we could do with our buddies. Overall, the movie works brilliantly because, rather than establishing his group of robbers as the absolute pinnacle of cool, he has made a film about destroying them. It's no coincidence that the movie begins with the men laughing and joking - tossing about phrases like "You kill me in a dream, you must wake up and apologize” - and then cuts to one of them screaming in anguish and bleeding to death.

Release year: 1992

Stars: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth

IMDB score: 8.3/10