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anyone else suprised about the the ending?

posted 16 years ago by PeterBlues
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i guess i don't have to say i'm giving the ending away since the topic, i didn't see the entire movie, but still i was rather suprised that he blew the crook away like he did at the end (defenceless, i might add). i mean, to see the "movie hero", the cop here do that, and yet another movie/role not suited for durnings terrific acting. i found the ending quite suprising and abrupt, but as i said, i hadn't watched the entire movie.

i'm so affraid,
i'm so small,
i thought i was on the right track,
now it's too late to go back,
where am i going to go,
i've been drifting and closing my eye for so long,
help me,
i no longer can see,
the track i was on,
was a deserted line i had on my own,
i guess i've come to realise it lately though,
but somehow i couldn't let go,
went from everything to nothing, from rich to poor,
a mountain fall, stripped like the can man at the airport,
i shouldve known,
a turkey like me only can go wrong,
i can't go back to my life as before,
i got absolutly nothing,
all i used to believe in,
i'm back on square one so to say,
i'm so lost on this way,
invisible and insignifigent,
with so much in vain,
i'm so affraid.

[–] Sonatine97 16 years ago

I loved the ending precisely because it didn't follow the usual Hollywood tedium of a happy straight-forward, by-the-numbers conclusion.

Woods' character in Cop reminded me instantly of Clint Eastwood's Harry Callaghan in the Dirty Harry movies. Perhaps there was an intentional link between the two characters.

[–] MiST_SYL 16 years ago

It's an awesome ending and totally fits with the characters ethic

"And by retarded i mean they can do anything!" - Big S

[–] polysicsarebest 16 years ago

ABRUPT. You hit the nail on the head.

There's a similiar ending in a film called BLOODRAGE. This cop is going around the entire movie, looking for a serial killer, and he randomly bumps into the killer in an apartment complex at the end of the film... and throws him out the window. The cop just throws the killer out the window after he recognizes who the guy is. Then, the movie ends.

[–] Doom 15 years ago

BEST

ENDING

EVER.

(shotgun blasts - cut to black - shells hit the floor - credits)

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Wait a minute... who am I here?

[–] agentalbert 14 years ago

I think there are many cop movies that end that way, especially in that time period. You don't see ones like that anymore.

A similar ending is the Charles Bronson movie "Ten to Midnight".

[–] nutsberryfarm 12 years ago

with a poet/ninja being the killer? yeah, those aren't around anymore.

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[–] mail-2775 14 years ago

Yes.

It was kind of disappointing, though, as you had the feeling the Hopkins character was trying to redeem himself, reconcile with his family, and move back into mainstream society instead of making himself into one more serial killer.

[–] Jones70 (6195) 3 years ago

Yeah a little bit.