Reservoir Dogs

Picking Nits

Eating breakfast together before a heist; the female driver pulling a gun on two carjackers; how Keitel gets two shots off in the three-way shootout; Tim Roth's accent

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  • They would not eat breakfast before a bank heist, already covered; the female driver pulling a gun on two scary carjackers is questioned, though guns and carjacking were an early-nineties thing, especially in L.A., and it makes less sense against two men than one.
  • How Keitel gets two shots off in the three-way shootout has bothered one host for twenty-seven years; the explanation is a vanishing quarter second in which Mr. White, already shot, turns and shoots Nice Guy Eddie, since being shot does not drop you instantly and the story needs them all to die; the curved bullet joke follows.
  • Earlier, during the opening scene, the crew being seen together in public in uniform before the heist was flagged for nitpicks.
  • Roth's accent, meant for nitpicks, goes up and down, sounding Dutch or Rhode Island; his character's surname Neuendijk (as transcribed) might excuse Minnesota, but it is a British guy doing an L.A. accent that does not add up, better in the commode scene than elsewhere.