Now, for the bad. RESERVOIR DOGS really isn't that great of a movie. There isn't much of a plot: a bunch of criminals who don't know each other get together under a crime lord to pull of a diamond heist and everything goes wrong. We never see the actual heist and that's okay because the movie isn't about the heist, it's about the criminals. However, movies that are based largely on character development aren't usually that interesting and RESERVOIR DOGS is not an exception. The little action that there is usually involves people shooting each other or cutting off ears or soaking prisoners in gasoline or someone bleeding to death. That's the extent of the action. The film is full of gratuitous ultraviolence that serves no purpose. The witty dialogue is dragged down as well, by the constant unnecessary use of foul language (Richard Pryor didn't use the f-word that often).

RESERVOIR DOGS showed promise. However, even though it was Tarantino's directing debut and made a dent in the fabric of popular culture the movie dies faster than any of the bleeding men in the story.