Product Description

Quentin Tarantino came out of nowhere (i.e., a video store in Manhattan Beach, California) and turned Hollywood on its ear in 1992 with his explosive first feature, Reservoir Dogs. Like Tarantino's mainstream breakthrough Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs has an unconventional structure, cleverly shuffling back and forth in time to reveal details about the characters, experienced criminals who know next to nothing about each other. Joe (Lawrence Tierney) has assembled them to pull off a simple heist, and has gruffly assigned them color-coded aliases (Mr. Orange, Mr. Pink, Mr. White) to conceal their identities from being known even to each other. But something has gone wrong, and the plan has blown up in their faces. One by one, the surviving robbers find their way back to their prearranged warehouse hideout. There, they try to piece together the chronology of this bloody fiasco--and to identify the traitor among them who tipped off the police. Pressure mounts, blood flows, accusations and bullets fly. In the combustible atmosphere these men are forced to confront life-and-death questions of trust, loyalty, professionalism, deception, and betrayal. As many critics have observed, it is a movie about "honor among thieves" (just as Pulp Fiction is about redemption, and Jackie Brown is about survival). Along with everything else, the movie provides a showcase for a terrific ensemble of actors: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen, Christopher Penn, and Tarantino himself, offering a fervent dissection of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" over breakfast. Reservoir Dogs is violent (though the violence is implied rather than explicit), clever, gabby, harrowing, funny, suspenseful, and even--in the end--unexpectedly moving. (Don't forget that "Super Sounds of the Seventies" soundtrack, either.) Reservoir Dogs deserves just as much acclaim and attention as its follow-up, Pulp Fiction, would receive two years later. --Jim Emerson

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #118077 in DVD
• Brand: Artisan Home Entertainment
• Published on: 1992
• Formats: NTSC, Color, Subtitled, Full Screen
• Subtitled in: Spanish, English
• Number of discs: 2

Features

• 2 DVDs Set, Newly remastered 2.35:1 Widescreen enhanced 16:9 and 4:3 Full Screen Versions
• 22 Chapters, 100 minutes
• Digitally Mastered/Interactive Menus/Scene Index/Special Features with never-before-seen Deleted Scenes and much more
• Spanish Subtitles/English Closed Captioning
• DTS Digital Surround Sound/5.1 Dolby Digital Audio/2.0 Dolby Digital Audio

Customer Reviews

Still a classic.
Tarintino classic. What else needs to be said. This is the remastered version with special features, commentaries, etc. etc.,...great gangster/robber/bad cop/undercover cop movie. Cult classic.

"Why I am I Mr Pink"?
I changed my major form music to film because of this movie. Everything is done so meticulously it oustounding.One of my favorite scences is the opening sequence where Steve Buscemi's character Mr. Pink is talking about the reasons that he does not tip waitress's his little speech was so convincing that I almost stopped tipping.Tarantino is one of the greates film writers that we have today and his talent really show with this script.The dialoge is fast paced yet perfectly timed the camera movements are fluid yet interesting and the characters are classic of course who can forget Mr. Blonde in the scene involving the cop and his ear (those who have seen this film know the scene I mean)with the violence over the top and the profanity at the max this has to be one of the greatest films of all time.