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Tarantino intends to retire after his 10th feature film, plans he has had in place as early as 2009. The director even considered capping his career with a Reservoir Dogs remake but ultimately decided to leave his fan-favorite film alone.
His earliest films were more subtle affairs, with Reservoir Dogs perhaps being the smallest. Play-like in scope, the majority of the story takes place in one room, with a The Thing like approach to paranoia amongst a group of men.From this simple premise, however, Tarantino works wonders, elevating what could have been a conventional criminal tale into one with so much idiosyncratic style and originality that it couldn’t help but inspire and influence a whole generation of filmmakers who arrived in its wake. For a film debut, Reservoir Dogs is remarkable. Supremely confidant and self assured in its mould breaking risks, it often feels like the work of a veteran filmmaker as opposed to a kid from LA who hadn’t even hit his thirties. Rarely has there been such a self assured cinematic debut, where confidence can be found not just in the story being told, but far more importantly, in how that story is told.
Cast:Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel, Chris Penn, Edward Bunker, Kirk Baltz, Quentin Tarantino, and Lawrence Tierney This is an absolutely amazing, ground breaking film and I adored it! Below, more of my impressions, with some very limited SPOILERS. The color coded names they use are of course Tarantino's tribute to the great 1974 thriller "Taking of Pelham 123". One of those six men is a traitor - and another one hides an even bigger, uglier, more horrible secret. For many of them this is the last day of their lives... Nothing more will be said. Lionsgate is excited to announce the arrival of RESERVOIR DOGSon 4K Blu-ray for the first time to celebrate the film’s 30th anniversary. The SteelBook and regular edition 4K Blu-ray available on November 15, 2022. An amazing start to a highly succesful career and no doubt we will see more of Tarantino’s genius converted to 4K in the future. A must own for fans and a great start for anyone who has yet to sample his work.Reservoir Dogs comes with a brand new 2160p UHD 4K transfer with Dolby Vision. This is the first time this timeless film has been released in the 4K format. When Blu-ray first debuted all those years ago, Reservoir Dogs was one of the first releases. Since then, it's only been released a couple of times in either a boutique set or a limited release - and even that was several years ago. When it opened in 1992, this film was clearly an almost revolutionary event. Nothing like that was ever shown on screen before and it changed the whole face of world cinema - FOR EVER! It begins with eight dangerous criminals eating breakfast at a Los Angeles diner. Being what they are it is clear from the first moment that they are up to no good. The breakfast is hosted by Joseph "Joe" Cabot (Lawrence Tierney), an important, respected (and feared) figure in local criminal world and his seemingly less formidable son Eddie "Nice Guy" Cabot (Chris Penn). Although the atmosphere is supposedly light-hearted, it becomes very fast obvious that this is in fact a kind of solemn farewell party before the six guests go on some BIG mission. Those six men are: The director was long-attached to the Star Trek franchise after pitching his idea for an R-rated entry to Paramount Pictures in 2017. The project would have been Tarantino's first foray into franchise filmmaking, but he moved away from the prospect in November 2019. Tarantino also expressed interest in directing a James Bond film set in the 1960s and was briefly connected to Casino Royale before Daniel Craig's casting.
EXTRAS....Some fine deleted scenes and alternate takes of the ear cutting scene. Also a Criminal Minds type profiling of the members of the gang that I found psychologically interesting. From the old SD DVD, there was also included a 'Playing it Fast and Loose' Documentary and an interesting 'Pulp Factoids' extra that pops up little tidbits of info during the course of the film. I discovered this feature after I had finished watching the film. Next time I watch it, I will be sure to have it turned on. Reservoir Dogs tells us the tale of a group of hardened criminals brought together by old gangster Joe ( Lawrence Tierney– Born To Kill, Dillinger) for a simple diamond heist. The men are mostly strangers to each other, with the exception) of Joe’s son Eddie ( Chris Penn– Footloose, Starsky and Hutch) and Mr. Blonde ( Michael Madsen– Kill Bill Vol. 1, The Hateful Eight), a close friend of the family. As the film opens we see our crew sitting together dissecting the songs of Madonna and discussing the relative merits of tipping. Most all are familiar with this film and have discussed its storyline, music, acting, directing and everything else...so I won't. I will just review the transfer of this film to Blu Ray. If you're a Tarantino fan, this is one for you if you don't already have it. It firmly established him as a director while still early in his career and he has made many great movies since.
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Another thing, used earlier, but NEVER on such scale, was to take low life characters and make them have really elaborated conversations on all kind of unexpected topics. And it worked BIG TIME. There is very little film grain throughout, but don’t worry, the transfer hasn’t been DNR’d to death. It looks wonderfully rich, filmic and organic, with a very good encode to boot. Overall, the 4K presentation of the film is absolutely beautiful. Reservoir Dogs is Zavvi's first Mondo Steelbook release, and is every Steelbook collector's dream! This limited edition Steelbook comes with a translucent sleeve so you can protect the fantastic, blood-stained artwork by Mondo illustrator Tyler Stout. By this stage, Reservoir Dogs surely needs little introduction. The debut film from Quentin Tarantino already felt like an established classic when it was first released in 1992; as the decades have rolled on, not only has film itself remained a consistent high point of Tarantino’s career, but the cinematic language, style and tone that it introduced have seemingly never left us. For 90s cinema especially, and perhaps even for cinema in general, Reservoir Dogs stands as a Rubicon moment, a definitive before and after that helped herald in a stylistic shift that shunted film towards its modern era. What can be said that Reservoir Dogs that hasn't already been said? A seminal piece of filmmaking, not to say controversial due to the moral outcry that followed it after its release due to its scenes of violence. Probably not helped by the campaign only just having been waged by the gutter press against, Child's Play 3, which it was erroneously said to have influenced the murder, of two-year-old Jamie Bulger in the UK, by two 10-year-old boys in 1993. In fact, the VHS release of the movie at the time was postponed until 1995 due to the British Board of Film Classification initially refusing the film a home video certificate (UK releases are required to be certified separately for theatrical release and for viewing at home). Fortunately, we now live in more liberal times, and the movie has gained a major cult following, and understandably so.
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