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Odd Ending!

posted 9 years ago by skiptan71
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I liked the movie a lot, seen some of it as a kid but didn't see the ending. Love Robert Blake and Elliot Gould a and wish they could of had some more comedy scenes together like the car birthday cake!
But the ending left me little puzzled, did he kill Rizzo and then credits roll with him in a voice over applying for a new job or did he not kill him and just left the Force?? I know there was no gunshot. He should of killed him and then go to the ending. Either way enjoyable movie if your a fan of '70's cop movies.

[–] Winfield_Browne 8 years ago

I like that it is ambigous. We can have the bad guy dead and the good guy alive in a different job if we want.

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[–] Woodyanders 8 years ago

That's writer/director Peter Hyams as the voice of the man interviewing Gould at the end.

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[–] askmonroville 8 years ago

I just watched the blu-ray release, and I do not think he killed him. By that point, Rizzo was giving up, so if Elliot Gould shot him, he would be charged with murder.. hence the reason he quits the force.

[–] ecarle (14979) 4 years ago

SPOILERS

I watched this the other night, saw that ending and thought to myself: "The ambiguous ending of The Sopranos -- which I hated -- always reminded me of how a lot of 70's movies ended: without an ending, and usually with a freeze frame(as here). Though the Sopranos cut to black.

And now here was a 70's movie that proved my point.

So Busting...a 70's movie with a "Sopranos" ending.

I know that there are more.