8 Problems With Reservoir Dogs Nobody Wants To Admit

4. All The Characters Sound The Same

It's a problem that has plagued Woody Allen for the sum of his career; no matter which character it is who's talking in a Woody Allen movie, they all sound like Woody Allen. Whilst one could definitely make a case for the fact that all Tarantino movies suffer from a similar flaw, his characters have tended to find their own unique (but still Tarantino-esque) voices as his career has move forwards. Reservoir Dogs, however, is the one Tarantino movie where he doesn't quite get away with it: everybody sounds the same. Granted, the filmmaker was yet to "perfect" his skills at this stage in the game; he was just 27-years-old when Reservoir Dogs went into production, so you can cut the guy some slack. Thing is, the characters here all talk in the same voice; no character has an individual style of communication that feels unique to them. They're all carved from exactly the same aggressive, pop cultural-addled, racially-questionable tree. It's not so much of a problem the first time you watch the movie, but repeat viewings reveal a picture built from characters who express themselves in the same voice.