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Orange (the British actor Tim Roth, who, amazingly, played a Cockney contract killer in Stephen Frears' 'The Hit,' yet here seems as American as tacos) lies bleeding to death on the floor. The two seem to struggle for control of the aftermath, as they attempt to figure out whether one of their own is an undercover cop. Blonde (Michael Madsen), who is a psycho killer. White (Harvey Keitel), who is a 'responsible thief,' and Mr. Pink' in another, he contributes a cracked, inane disquisition on the absurdity of tipping.Д«ut the competing centers of authority in the film are Mr. At one point, he breaks up a tense planning meeting with a five-minute kvetch on the agonies of being code-named 'Mr. Pink, is the author of many of these (Buscemi is a performance artist, so possibly he's incorporating some of his material).

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Tarantino writes pointed, vivid comic solos that literally halt the movie in its tracks and take on a life of their own, like performance pieces. Yet as hypercharged and kinetic as 'Reservoir Dogs' is, it keeps stopping for riffs and it's only halfway through when one realizes that, under the torture scenes, the gunfights, the screams of a wounded, bloody man who slowly dies on screen for about 97 minutes, the movie is really a comedy.

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Each is given a color code name by 'Joe,' the leathery old mastermind (Lawrence Tierney, who looks as if he could chew his way out of Alcatraz). The robbers are a hyper-masculine crew of tattooed tough guys who dress like Blues Brothers and carry - what else?. Tarantino's glitziest stroke is never to show the main event: He backtracks in time and point of view half a dozen times, showing what led up to it and what happened after it, but the actual raid itself goes undramatized. The movie is radically structured, after the fashion of Kubrick's first film, 'The Killing,' another famous heist movie but one in which the heist was actually shown. It basically takes place in a single setting, with flashbacks, as the surviving members of a robbery gang gather in a warehouse and try to hash out what happened in a bungled job in a wholesale diamond exchange that left half of them and dozens of square johns and cops dead in downtown Los Angeles. Tarantino's subject - that is, besides B movies and his own damned precociousness - is the honor among thieves and the lack of it among policemen.