White shoots Orange and collapses as gunfire erupts. In the background, Pink is heard attempting to escape as the police storm the warehouse and order White to drop his gun. As White cradles the dying Orange in his arms, Orange confesses that he is an undercover officer White, upset at the betrayal, reluctantly presses his gun to Orange's head. Pink, the only uninjured person, takes the diamonds and flees. All three fire both Joe and Eddie are killed, and White and Orange are hit. Eddie promptly aims at White, creating a Mexican standoff. Before Joe can execute Orange, whom he suspects is the traitor, White intervenes and holds him at gunpoint, insisting that he doubts Orange is responsible. Joe then arrives and announces the police have killed Blue. Eddie impulsively kills Nash and accuses Orange of lying, as Blonde was a longtime friend of his father. Shortly thereafter, White befriends Orange.īack in the present, Eddie, Pink, and White return to the warehouse where Orange tries to convince them that Blonde planned to kill them all and steal the diamonds for himself.
Blonde then retrieves a gasoline can from his car and douses Nash with gasoline, but before he can ignite it and set Nash ablaze, Orange suddenly awakens and shoots Blonde to death, afterwards assuring Nash that he is an undercover police officer and the police will arrive shortly.Įarlier, Orange fabricates an elaborate tale of drug delivery to gain acceptance into the gang. Whilst dancing to Stealers Wheel's " Stuck in the Middle with You", Blonde tortures Nash, slashing his face and cutting off his right ear with a straight razor. Eddie arrives and orders them to retrieve the stashed diamonds and ditch the getaway vehicles, leaving Blonde to handle Nash and Orange. In the present, White and Pink beat Nash for information. Blonde insists on returning to "real work", and they hire him for the heist. To reward him for concealing Joe's name from the authorities, they offer him a no-show job. Sometime earlier, Blonde meets with the Cabots, having completed a four-year jail sentence. They yield when Blonde arrives with a kidnapped policeman named Marvin Nash. Having hidden the diamonds nearby, Pink argues with White over getting medical attention for Orange, and the pair end up arguing and draw guns at each other. White informs him that Brown is dead, Blue and Blonde are missing, and Blonde murdered several civilians during the heist White is furious that Joe, his old friend, would employ a "psychopath" like Blonde. At one of Joe's warehouses, White and Orange rendezvous with Pink, who believes that the job was a setup, and that the police were waiting for them.
After discussing the Madonna song " Like a Virgin" and arguing over Pink's habit of not tipping, the group leaves the diner to execute a diamond heist.Īfter the heist, White flees with Orange, who was shot in the stomach by an armed woman while hijacking her car, and is bleeding severely. Brown, White, Blonde, Blue, Orange, and Pink. Except for leader Joe Cabot and his son Nice Guy Eddie, all of the other men use aliases: Mr. 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. It achieved higher popularity after the success of Tarantino's next film, Pulp Fiction (1994). Despite not being heavily promoted during its theatrical run, the film became a modest success in the United States after grossing $2.8 million against its scant budget. Although controversial at first for its depictions of violence and heavy use of profanity, Reservoir Dogs was generally well received, with the cast being praised by many critics. The film is regarded as a classic of independent film and a cult film, and was named "Greatest Independent Film of all Time" by Empire. It incorporates many motifs that have become Tarantino's hallmarks: violent crime, pop culture references, profanity, and nonlinear storytelling.
Kirk Baltz, Randy Brooks, and Steven Wright also play supporting roles. The film depicts the events before and after, but not during, the heist. It stars Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney, Michael Madsen, Tarantino, and Edward Bunker as diamond thieves whose planned heist of a jewelry store goes terribly wrong. Reservoir Dogs is a 1992 American crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino in his feature-length debut.
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