8 Problems With Reservoir Dogs Nobody Wants To Admit

7. It's The Tarantino Film With The Least To Say

Not that every film ever made has to have a "point" in the traditional sense, of course, but Dogs is very much an exercise in style over substance - more so, perhaps, than any other picture that Tarantino has ever made. There's also a sense that with this picture, Tarantino has to the least to say. Narratively and thematically, it's the director's shallowest work. Even Kill Bill, Tarantino's most childish filmmaking venture, was an exercise in female empowerment. The Hateful Eight didn't offer anything in the way of emotional cues of course, but even that film - a gory state of affairs packed with violence and obscenities - had something to say about race relations in America. Hell, even Death Proof, his worst movie, was a clever deconstruction of female gender roles in cinema. Reservoir Dogs is only about what is happening in the moment and nothing else. There's nothing wrong with that, except for the fact that - fundamentally - it renders the picture as Tarantino's least progressive and intelligent (and therefore less interesting) movie.