8 Problems With Reservoir Dogs Nobody Wants To Admit

5. It's Incredibly Self-Indulgent

Yes, it's mostly brilliant and yes, the dialogue really sings, but Reservoir Dogs is also an exercise in its director's own ego: Tarantino literally opens his debut movie with a scene in which he himself is talking. Tarantino talking? You could say that said intro to the filmmakers' world was a sign of things to come as far as his career is concerned, huh? Tarantino didn't open the movie was somebody else, though, and then opt to squeeze himself in at a later point in a tiny cameo, à la Alfred Hitchcock or Martin Scorsese; he's the first person we hear talking. The man has Tim Roth and Michael Madsen and Harvey freakin' Keitel at his disposal, and he opts to open the film with Mr. Brown delivering a monologue that, for all intents and purposes, has nothing to do with the film. Indulgence is and always will be a part of a Tarantino film, and sometimes it works in his favour. But there's no pretending that the his debut flick isn't the acclaimed filmmaker showering in his own words. It's a fantastic script; the big problem is, Quentin knows it.