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Let down by the ending? Warning spoilers

posted 12 years ago by Riding46
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Anyone else feel the film was marred by the downbeat but trendy ending?

Surely a better ending would have been to pull over the hippies for a 2nd time, give him back his drivers licence, then say *beep* it, throw away his badge and climb aboard the VW and make his identification to the hippies complete as he quits being a cop and joins them.

[–] cfinde 12 years ago

The cop had the driver's license of his killer...so he would be caught.

[–] oregon-5 12 years ago

Unless the license fell out of his hand and it was never found.

[–] balducci2 9 years ago

We saw him tuck the license into the bag / satchel on the front of the bike. So it probably would have been found.

[–] baheidstu-351-733122 12 years ago

No, I think the ending makes perfect sense the way it is. Earlier in the film John is a by-the-book kind of guy. He gives a fellow cop a ticket, he doesn't give a fellow vet a break. Then at the end, after all that he has gone through has given him a "eff-it" attitude, he pays for it.

[–] JellyFish19 11 years ago

I liked the ending to this outdated little film, it came kinda suddenly and reminded me a lot of how "Easy Rider" ended. They even show a poster of that movie as in some sort of foreshadowing.

[–] CathodeRayTubesRock 8 years ago

You might not have been around watching movies in the 70's. The hero (when the hero was imperfect) almost always died at the end. See Billy Jack, etc...

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[–] Riding46 8 years ago

In the 70's audiences didn't want a happy ending, is that it?

Let down by the ending? ***Warning spoilers***

Let down by the ending? Warning spoilers