Saturday, March 1, 2008

Reservoir Dogs (1992)

A heist film without the heist. A crime film with no set up and no pay off. No jewels are seen, we don't even see where the crime takes place. The film starts after the heist and via flashbacks, we see the outskirts of planning and a hint of an undercover sting operation. When the film begins, we know none of this and we take the characters word that they are honest. 

It's interestingly set up and works reasonably well, minus the few scenes which serve only the pop culture reference crowd, not the movie watching, story advancing type of viewer.

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