Product Details

• Actors: Tim Roth
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: February 13, 2007
• Run Time: 196 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000LC3IBK
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #43,947 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

RESERVOIR DOGS - Four Perfect Killers. One Perfect Crime. Critically acclaimed for its raw power and breathtaking ferocity, it's the brilliant American gangster movie classic from writer-director Quentin Tarantino. They were perfect strangers, assembled to pull off the perfect crime. Then their simple robbery explodes into bloody ambush, and the ruthless killers realize one of them is a police informer. But which one? BAD LIEUTENANT - He has survived on the streets for twenty years. He's a gambler...a thief...a junkie...a killer and a cop. Now's he's investigating the most shocking case of his life, and as he moves closer to the truth his self-destructive past is closing in. Harvey Keitel gives a searing performance as an out-of-control police detective on a collision course with disaster in director Abel Ferrara's brilliant and deeply disturbing melodrama.

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars 2 modern-classics on 1 dvd, August 31, 2009

By	B. Kring "Becky" (Florida) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Two great Harvey Keitel movies - convenient packaging. Unfortunately someone IMMEDIATELY borrowed this dvd from me! D'OH!

5.0 out of 5 stars Both are raw, stark, graphic, brutal portrayals of very nasty characters! Fantastic movies...but not for everybody!, November 8, 2007

By	D. Gorman "Crystalline Structure Moon" - See all my reviews

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These are both very intense, graphic, very real views of some slimy characters. They make a tremendous double-feature! Harvey Kietel (the common link between these flicks) is absolutely supurb in both roles. He makes a great scumbag! "Bad Lieutenant" I'd seen before, and was my main reason for this purchase. Harvey plays a dirty cop who is investigating the rape of a nun. His character has a gambling problem, a coke (and other drugs) problem, he's into sex, and does a lot of things no decent cop will do. He abuses his authority in ways that shock you, and all of it is portrayed openly in graphic, vivid detail. I'd never seen "Reservoir Dogs" before, but was interested because of the recommendations of friends. I'd heard it was about a robbery that was supposed to be the perfect crime, but went terribly wrong. I expected the run-of-the-mill bank hold-up where the cops show up, robbers take hostages and contemplate shooting their way out sort of thing. It was nothing like that! The actual crime (a jewelry store heist aimed at a particular incoming shipment) is never shown. Instead, the movie dances back and forth showing scenes before the heist (such as when the main organizer brings all the strangers together to explain the plan) and scenes after the perpetrators shot their way out, escaped and had to figure out how to save the situation while arguing about who in their group may have set them up. Both movies are brilliantly written, raw, graphic, portrayals of very slimy characters. Harvey K., while playing a dirtball in both flicks, shows more redeeming qualities as a robber in RD than he does as a cop in BL. These movies are not for general audiences, or the faint of heart.......they are very graphic!!! But, if you like raw portayals of dirty characters, then like me, you will find both of these movies quickly becoming all-time favorites!