10 Double Movie Features From Hell

For a debut feature, Reservoir Dogs is audacious, but not without its faults. Most of what Quentin Tarantino would later be accused of - accusations levelled by people with legitimate grief like Spike Lee - is turned up to eleven in his first film.

Reservoir Dogs is also one of those debuts that is far too impressed with its own hook, and while a heist movie in which the heist occurs entirely offscreen is fairly clever, a better movie wouldn't spend so much time dwelling on it.

For those all in on Tarantino, however, it's a welcome discovery, particularly if you came late and are playing catch-up.

Unfortunately, with Tarantino came a half-decade full of imitators, copycats and wannabes, each with their supposedly unique brand of vulgar, tangential dialogue. There are too many to count, but Doug Liman's Go is arguably the best. If there were an example of all the wrong lessons learned from Reservoir Dogs, it's The Boondock Saints.

Troy Duffy was just a loudmouth bartender who managed to talk the ear off the right guy at Miramax, leading to a once-in-a-lifetime success story. The problem is, as anyone who's seen the documentary Overnight knows, he was better off a bartender than a filmmaker. Duffy's jackassery at Cannes essentially killed his career.

It doesn't help that the film subs Tarantino's casual racism for Duffy's blatant homophobia. It's all style, no substance, something Tarantino often gets blamed for when it was much more an imitator problem.