10 Movies That Missed Out The Money Shot

9. The Heist - Reservoir Dogs

Yes, of COURSE it's the point of Reservoir Dogs that you don't actually get to see the heist that the entire rat's nest plot blossoms around, but that doesn't mean it's not a hugely conspicuous absence. Quentin Tarantino has often been accused of self-indulgence in the amount of dialogue he stuffs into his films, but he also usually balances it with action (and copious lashings of hyper-violence).

But in stark contrast to his later films, which unflinchingly crowned those violent sequences as the jewels in his story, early Tarantino preferred instead to keep some of his cards hidden. Just as he didn't show Butch's fateful boxing match in Pulp Fiction (which is the narrative ground zero there), he chose not to show the diamond store heist.

It somewhat suits the story, since it means it's harder to tell what the TRUE story of what went down is (and we have to follow Mr White's lack of clarity), but it still would have been incredible to actually see it. It would have been a delightfully Tarantino-esque sequence after all, given the testimonies about it.