Spoiler Alert: The lead-up to the final scenes
I remember watching The French Connection with Gene Hackman many, many years ago and have always considered it a grossly over-rated movie. This one, I thought, was much better and more engaging.
However with about three minutes left in the film, I somehow got un-engaged... as in, 'lost'. Can someone help out?
Spoiler, Spoiler, Spoiler.......
After 'Le Fou', Madman? - Benoit Maginal - agrees to testify, there is a scene in which Bad Guy #2 returns to a jail cell and announces to Bad Guy #1, "It's no use, there's too much security around him."
Bad Guy #1 thinks, then announces, "We'll have to (do what they do) but they'll get/blame Tany."
Who was Bad Guy #1 that he could order that action taken? How did he know that Tany would be blamed?
Also... in nearly the final scene where President Jacques Mitterand is at a press conference announcing "Vive la France, Comment-vous diddley-spit?", was one of the characters to his left not one of the corrupt police officers?