Reservoir Dogs is a American crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino in his feature-length directorial debut. The film incorporates many motifs that have become Tarantino's hallmarks: violent crime, pop culture references, profanity, and nonlinear storytelling. The film is regarded as a classic of independent film and a cult film. It achieved higher popularity after the success of Tarantino's next film, Pulp Fiction A soundtrack was released featuring songs used in the film, which are mostly from the s.
It was named "Greatest Independent Film of All Time" by the British film magazine Empire , who in also named it the 97th-greatest film ever made. Eight men eat breakfast at a diner. Brown, Mr. White, Mr. Blonde, Mr. Blue, Mr. Orange, and Mr. The men carry out a diamond heist. White flees with Orange, who was shot during the escape and is bleeding profusely in the back seat of a car driven by White.
At their hideout, White and Orange rendezvous with Pink, who believes that the job was a setup and that the police were waiting for them. 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 Blonde, whom he describes as a psychopath. Pink has hidden the diamonds nearby and argues with White over whether to get medical attention for Orange, and the pair draw guns on each other. They stand down when Blonde arrives with a kidnapped policeman, Marvin Nash. Sometime earlier, Blonde meets with the Cabots, having been paroled after a four-year prison sentence.
To reward him for not giving Joe's name to the authorities, they offer him a no-show job. Blonde is grateful but insists that he wants to get back to "real work", and they recruit him for the heist.
