Orange tells Nash he is an undercover police officer and that police are coming.Įddie, Pink, and White return to the warehouse to find Blonde dead. He douses him with gasoline, but before he can ignite it, Orange shoots him dead. Blonde is uninterested and tortures Nash for his own amusement, severing his ear with a straight razor. Alone with Blonde, Nash denies knowledge of a setup. Eddie arrives and orders Pink and White to help him retrieve the diamonds and dispose of the hijacked vehicles, while Blonde stays with Nash and Orange. He reveals he has taken a police officer, Marvin Nash, hostage in his trunk they beat him in an attempt to discover the informant. They argue over whether to take the unconscious Orange to a hospital.īlonde arrives and tells them to wait for Eddie.
Pink reveals that he escaped with the diamonds and hid them in a secure location. They discuss Blonde, who murdered several civilians in the shootout White is angry that Joe, an old friend, employed such a " psychopath". White tells Pink that Brown was killed while escaping and that Blue is presumed dead. Pink arrives, agitated he believes the job was a setup and that the police had the diamond store staked out. Orange has been shot and is bleeding profusely. The others are mob boss Joe Cabot, the organizer of the heist, and his son and underboss, "Nice Guy" Eddie Cabot.Īfter the heist, White drives Orange to the rendezvous, an empty warehouse.
A soundtrack was released featuring songs used in the film, which are mostly from the 1970s.Įight men eat breakfast at a Los Angeles diner before their planned diamond heist. The film was more successful in the United Kingdom, grossing nearly £6.5 million, and it achieved higher popularity after the success of Tarantino's next film, Pulp Fiction (1994). Although it was not given much promotion upon release, the film became a modest success in the United States after grossing $2,832,029, recouping its $1.2 million budget. Reservoir Dogs was generally well received, and the cast was praised by many critics. It was named "Greatest Independent Film of all Time" by Empire magazine. The film has become a classic of independent film and a cult hit. It incorporates many themes that have become Tarantino's hallmarks-violent crime, pop culture references, profanity, and nonlinear storytelling. Tarantino and criminal-turned-author Edward Bunker have minor roles. The film was the feature-length debut of director and writer Quentin Tarantino, and stars Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Chris Penn, Lawrence Tierney, and Michael Madsen. Reservoir Dogs is a 1992 American neo-noir crime thriller that depicts the events before and after a botched diamond heist.
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