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Reservoir Dogs (R)
production: Dog Eat Dog Productions; release: Miramax Films; distribution: Artisan
reference: IMDb; Movie Tome; Rotten Tomatoes; Wikipedia

Okay, this movie jumps around in time alot. It starts before a jewel heist, with the criminals sitting around in a diner having breakfast and some random conversation, which is rather interesting. I pretty much agree with Mr. Pink about tipping, by the way. Then we see Mr. White, after the robbery goes awry, driving Mr. Orange, who has been shot, to the rendezvous, to wait for the others, including the guy who hired them all, Joe Cabot. Oh, and Joe's son, Nice Guy Eddie. I should mention that none of the criminals know each other, and they're all going by code names. At one point prior to the crime, there's an amusing argument about who should be called which color.

Mr. Pink shows up at the rendezvous, certain that someone has betrayed them (since the cops were at the scene of the crime far too soon), and that it isn't safe to stay at the warehouse. Whichever one of them was working with the cops knew about the place, so the cops would probably be there soon. Mr. White also contemplates taking Mr. Orange to a hospital, since he's dying. But they never leave. There's also talk about how crazy Mr. Blonde is, since he started unneccesarily shooting people back at the crime scene. I believe Mr. Blue and Mr. Brown both were killed by cops.

Well, eventually Mr. Blonde shows up at the warehouse. And he has a cop he's captured, and tortures him. And at some point Eddie shows up, and later Joe. And, um, more stuff happens. I really don't know what to say about this movie. I don't want to give anything important away, so I can't say too much. But there's lots of flashbacks, stuff that happened prior to the crime. And after the crime. We never see the crime itself. It's all vaguely confusing, and there's a ton of violence, and profanity. It's also funny and interesting and dramatic and cool. All of which one can of course expect from a Tarantino film. Oh yeah, and I really liked the song that was selected to close the film. Anyway, this film, objectively, almost certainly deserves to be on a higher tier, but from my own personal perspective... well, I just thought it was pretty damned okay.