Reservoir Dogs - (Mr. White) 10th Anniversary Special Limited Edition |  | Director: Quentin Tarantino
Actors: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi
Studio: Live / Artisan
Category: DVD
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Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Full Screen, Live, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 99 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 012236120506
EAN: 0012236120506
ASIN: B000068U00
Theatrical Release Date: October 23, 1992
Release Date: August 27, 2002
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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
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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
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We Used to Play This Game ... January 1, 2010
Giordano Bruno (Wherever I am, I am.)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
... my country cousins and I, when I was 10 or 12, in the summer when there was nothing to do and we had no sports equipment or playing fields in the 1950s, just backyards without fences and scrappy vacant fields, and we could have listened to Sky King on the radio or some of us could have watched daytime TV but the last thing we wanted to do was sit at home where our mothers could harp at us, so we'd go play 'gangsters' across the whole neighborhood though sometimes we'd still play World War 2 but there wasn't much difference, we'd squabble over who called the script until we reached some kind of concord that I'd go first and Olle would take over after a half hour and then Peter. We didn't call the game 'Reservoir Dogs' because we'd never heard of such and the movie was still decades away, but it was just the same game as these actors -- Keitel and Roth and Buscemi and Tarantino himself -- play on screen, with the same boyish glee at flinging the big F every third word and the same appreciation for chaos and betrayal. It was all about "pecking order" of course, and the power of a good bluff, and we knew it was deadly serious, that our futures depended on it, but the knowledge was unconscious. Usually, by the rules of group improv, we'd all wind up dead, and then the older ones of us would start bragging about peeking at each other's sisters in the bathroom...
Tarantino and his Hollywood home boys were probably already too old for this kind of circle jerk when they made it in 1981...
Great blueray except..... December 16, 2009
John J. Kim (Japan)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The movie and picture quality is great but I really missed the retrospective interviews with all actors (TIm Roth, Chris Penn, etc) on the 10th anniversary edition. Overall a good disc to have but cut it to 4 starts due to the deletion.
 Dunno what the title means December 10, 2009
Bradley F. Smith (Miami Beach, FL)
I guess I hadn't seen this since it came out, and I thought I remembered. But I didn't. The script here is fabulous, and of course, everything that's been said about the great cast and directing is all true. The time-shifting technique pioneered here went on to be used in quite a number of other films. And the coffee shop scenes, of course, resurfaced in Pulp Fiction and many more following movies. There's a lot of blood, but somehow it's not that gory, despite some torture that is one of the movie's most memorable sequences, set to Stealer's Wheel music. Ha. This is one of the few dvd's I have watched lately all the way through without a pause, my new standard for whether a movie is at the top of the pile. This one certainly is.
Classic November 6, 2009
M. Belken (south-USA)
If you have never seen, one of my favorites. A lot of twists and turns in plot. Masterful suspense.
Tarantino's First Feature Sets The Pattern October 25, 2009
Zarathustra (Sacramento, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Many of the techniques, such as violence and time shifting, used in Reservoir Dogs can be found in Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill, but this gangster film of a robbery gone terribly wrong is worth owning for the fine actors involved (Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney and Michael Madsen) and the excellent direction by Quentin Tarantino.
Reservoir Dogs looks great in blu-ray.
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