There is very little film grain throughout, but don’t worry, the transfer hasn’t been DNR’d to death. It looks wonderfully rich, filmic and organic, with a very good encode to boot. Overall, the 4K presentation of the film is absolutely beautiful. from The Killers to Django (the latter film obviously inspired another Tarantino effort, at least vis a vis Hindsight is a wonderful thing, and watching Reservoir Dogs now, when the opening credits start to the dulcet tones of Steven Wright’s ‘K-Billy’s Super Sounds of the Seventies’ radio show, you know you are in for a treat. Even more so when we are presented with the opening scene of the main characters sitting around a table discussing Madonna’s ‘Like a Virgin’ in what still ranks as one of Tarantino’s finest moments, the dialogue sharp, witty and, above all, real, especially when Mr. Pink waxes lyrical about tipping and why he doesn’t believe in it. version of Reservoir Dogs for a very appealing looking argument to the contrary. While both the 1080 and 2160 versions offer

In 1992, Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) came bursting onto the scene with a crime thriller so unlike anything else that had come before that it changed the face of the genre overnight.

Reservoir Dogs Extras

a Pavlovian fear response to things at this point (Lionsgate releases seem especially prone to really chunky, almost dirty, looking grain on Reservoir Dogs tells us the tale of a group of hardened criminals brought together by old gangster Joe ( Lawrence Tierney– Born To Kill, Dillinger) for a simple diamond heist. The men are mostly strangers to each other, with the exception) of Joe’s son Eddie ( Chris Penn– Footloose, Starsky and Hutch) and Mr. Blonde ( Michael Madsen– Kill Bill Vol. 1, The Hateful Eight), a close friend of the family. As the film opens we see our crew sitting together dissecting the songs of Madonna and discussing the relative merits of tipping. Extras wise, this release certainly comes up light. I only received the 4K disc for this review, which contains no extras at all (not even a commentary). An accompanying Blu Ray will contain some deleted scenes and two featurettes, Playing it Fast and Loose and Profiling The Reservoir Dogs. It is a great shame that the wealth of extra features from previous special editions has not been included. I also cannot confirm if the new 4K transfer appears on the Blu Ray (although one thinks that it would).

par, and fans of the film will probably be chomping at the bit to see if Lionsgate has upped the ante with this release.The film tells an over-the-top story of the heist of a Los Angeles diamond store. Five thugs are recruited for the job by mastermind Joe Cabot (Gene Tierney) and the heist is carefully planned. The trouble is that one of the thugs is an undercover cop. The heist goes awry with much senseless killing. Coming housed in a gleefully gruesome Steelbook, the extras (on the Blu-ray disc only) include deleted scenes and a couple of archive featurettes covering the movie and the characters, but you aren’t getting this for the extras – you’re getting it because it is the perfect upgrade of a classic movie that still feels like it was only released last week. really beautifully "tight" resolution for the most part, I was especially buoyed by the appearance of grain on the 4K UHD disc, since I have what's This is an absolutely amazing, ground breaking film and I adored it! Below, more of my impressions, with some very limited SPOILERS.