

Roger Ebert was less enthusiastic he felt that the script could have been better and said that the movie "feels like it's going to be terrific", but Tarantino's script does not have much curiosity about the characters. Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times also enjoyed the movie and the acting, particularly that of Buscemi, Tierney and Madsen, and said "Tarantino's palpable enthusiasm, his unapologetic passion for what he's created, reinvigorates this venerable plot and, mayhem aside, makes it involving for longer than you might suspect." He similarly complimented Tarantino's directing and liked the fact that he did not often use close-ups in the movie. Vincent Canby of the New York Times enjoyed the cast and the use of non-linear storytelling. Bernard claimed that Reservoir Dogs had a similar effect and people were not ready for it. Steven Wright (voice) as the K-Billy DJ Īt the movie's release at the Sundance Film Festival, movie critic Jami Bernard of the New York Daily News compared the effect of Reservoir Dogs to that of the 1895 movie L'Arrivée d'un Train en Gare de la Ciotat, where audiences watched a moving train approaching the camera and ran away frightened.Harvey Keitel as Larry Dimmick, a.k.a.Pink, who hid from the shootout, steals the diamonds and runs away.

The rest of the men argue and are in a Mexican standoff and are all shot. Orange who is actually an undercover police officer. Blonde tries to torture the police officer while the rest of the men are away but is killed by Mr. Blonde has captured a police officer, Marvin Nash ( Kirk Baltz) and beat him to try to get an answer.

The rest of the men return to the hideout and talk about what went wrong. The robbery goes wrong and several of the men are killed, and Mr. They work for a gangster Joe Cabot ( Lawrence Tierney) and his son, "Nice Guy" Eddie ( Chris Penn). The men are given nicknames with colours so that they do not know each others names Mr. The movie shows the events before and after a robbery at a jewelry shop in Los Angeles, California, that went wrong.
