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Strange ending

posted 9 years ago by mherch2833
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I've always felt the ending to this was abrupt, and tonally jarring. In the last 20 seconds of the film we see Burt shoot a guy out of a skyscraper, then immediately cut to kids playing on the playground with Sharky and Dominoe while a corny love song plays in the background. Then roll credits. It all happens in about 20 seconds, then that's it!

Besides that I really love this movie.

[–] KobiyashiMauru 8 years ago

It is different. I noticed that too, but didn't feel like it was TOO out of place. 👀

Luke Skywalker, your Mom was hawt! Darth Vader

[–] heelmaster2000 8 years ago

I thought I was the only one who thought it was a bit strange.

[–] heelmaster2000 8 years ago

I thought I was the only one who thought it was a bit strange.

[–] R_Kane (15828) 6 years ago

A loving, sweet and appropriate ending is not strange. Your comments, on the other hand . . . I guess this is why there are no more IMDb boards.

[–] shatterhand (39) 3 years ago

I just watched it last night and I totally agree! Never really noticed it before.

[–] seagal72 (2016) 3 years ago

Five years late to the convo, but to the OP:

SHARKY'S MACHINE (despite it's release date) still has that free-wheeling slack narrative (associated largely, with seventies cinema) Dirty Harry (1971) also ends on a rather abrupt note.....but both have the cinematic economy, to not waste time with pointless trivialities oe exposition, to a story that (for all intents and purposes) is over.

The 'Bad-Guy' is dead...The 'Good Guy' has triumphed...Run end credits.

Stick with the credits though, because they neatly dovetail to a helicopter shot *back* to the (now boarded-up) window, in which Henry Silvas fell through.