Reservoir Dogs

It's been said that Reservoir Dogs is Quentin Tarantino's most disturbing film. It's not the most violent, or the most realistic but it's at a certain middle point. I'm not sure I totally agree, because although movies like Kill Bill and Django Unchained are more outlandish and not as dark, they still obviously have much more death and pain. I was personally more disturbed by Inglorious Basterds, but I guess that's just my opinion. One thing I found especially interesting about Reservoir Dogs was that it's a heist movie where you never see the heist, but rather, all the before and after parts. We just have to imagine the robbery that went totally wrong. I can't exactly tell what type of film it is, but I can say that it's not easy to watch. It's full of people getting shot, and there's also one scene where a guy gets his ear cut off. I wasn't especially scarred mentally by this because in both Watchmen, and The Big Lebowski, people get their ears bitten off, so it's not the worst I've seen. I liked how each of the main characters had their own small segments of which they were the focus. We got to learn each of their pasts and what type of person they each were. When they all interacted, it felt like I knew each of them in depth and it was all just a matter of how these personalities would collide. Then we got to see what happened after their first mission as a team. It's safe to say it didn't turn out too great. One thing I didn't like was the way these super professional people who seemed to know what they were doing were so unprofessional so often. They weren't acting like the characters they were made out to be in the beginning. I couldn't understand their actions in that way. I wanted to see all these different people act together and try desperately to keep their professionalism, as it's a good way to make a story, but I didn't really get that from Reservoir Dogs, though it was still excellent in many other ways. B+