I actually have a copy of QT's Resevoir Dogs screenplay. In the beginning he thanked a bunch of people and I remember seeing Chow YunFat's name in it. So he did, very indirectly thanked/ admitted his influence. Personally I thought Dogs made too big a deal--it was a movie he made to showed how much he liked the other genres: Scorsese/ Coppolla gangster flicks, Hong Kong gangster flicks, Blaxpoitation...etc. Good thing he was a video clerk in the 70's and 80's--hate to see a major American director paying tributes to The Young and Dangerous movies.

Okay with QT aside, let's talk about the movie. I loved it. The chemistry between Chow and his girlfriend, his superiors, and Danny Lee, are impeccable. The car chase is really good, since it actually serves some purpose in the storyline. The twists and turns here aren't too far-fetched but I do not find them to be predictable. This movie has a soul, a general compassion towards almost all of its characters. A lot of good stuff here, but the best part of the movie is still the relationships and the chemistry these actors bring out among themselves, along with Ringo's screenplay.

Couple of thugs/ cannon fodders are a little too one-dimensional. The "evil cop" that's been sooooo overplayed has a substantial amount of screentime. The movie seems to blame all the problems encountered in this movie on this "evil cop" which I find very unconvincing. Another complaint is the near-sadistic way the movie treats Chow Yun-Fat. Chow Yun-Fat seems to be doing alright balancing between his exterior nonchalance and his inner struggle between his job and his girlfriend and loyalty and honor--but the movie has to go out of its way to torture him during the interrogation and slo-mo the painful process of duct-taping the tape recorder to his stomach. I want to feel for Chow on his own merit, not by watching him getting the crap kicked out of in a sequence that's almost gratuitous to the plot.

Sounds like a lot of complaints for a film to love. But the actors have really really elevated the movie. Good job. Props.

One thing I didn't get is the color-name thing. Maybe that's because I don't speak Cantonese, but in my version they go by the names of "Fu", "Joe", "Ko Chow"...etc. Where are the colors?