How stupid was the RC Car Chase?
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chrt — 19 years ago(March 28, 2007 02:38 PM)
Watch more closely: after the RC car faceoff, as the bomb runs under Harry's car Harry reverses rapidly. As a result, the blast is into the engine compartment, not into the passenger compartment, and they are partly screened by the engine block and the bulkhead. Hence the frontal chest injury to Harry's partner, rather than massive lower-body injuries and burns to both. Credible? Well, if you believed the RC car chase
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fierywafarer — 18 years ago(May 19, 2007 03:22 PM)
"Do you know what a lawman is, Crowe? He is a killer of men" Jared Maddox in "Lawman"
It was entertaining, but it was unfortunately done at the cost of a big loophole. I am talking about the moments just before the explosion when Harry and his partner were boxed into that dead end, and the RC car was approaching them slowly. Why didn't they shoot the RC car? Of course it would have spoiled the fun of the scene, but does anyone see any other feasible reason I might have missed? -
c-huddleston — 18 years ago(September 09, 2007 10:13 PM)
Funny isn't it?
We all (I include myself) find the RC Car chase far fetched.
But then we swallow so much implausibility in action movies without batting an eyelid!
Maybe we need to remember to put our brains in "Park" (neutral for those with manual gear change) mode before watching an action movie. -
jack-upland — 13 years ago(January 19, 2013 07:25 PM)
I find it hard to believe a toy car could match a real car for speed over that distance. Also, the villain is driving his own car at speed while at the same time controlling the toy car over terrain he can't see. And when the toy car takes the pavement, it never hits anyone or anything and people just jump out of the way, rather than stopping it.
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transmentalist — 18 years ago(November 30, 2007 04:39 PM)
How'd they wind up in the alley? I forgot. Was it Harry's intent to dead-end themselves and force the killer's hand? Seems odd that an experienced cop would let himself get boxed in by accident in his own city.
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jamasian_man — 18 years ago(February 04, 2008 12:09 PM)
You're all wrong. It was obvious that the Lilliputians had harry's name on their Dead Pool list and wanted him out. They were gonna get him kamikaze style.
Harry's partners
Dirty Harry - latino and white
Magnum Force - black
The Enforcer - white and woman
Sudden Impact - none
The Dead Pool - asian -
tehck — 9 years ago(September 13, 2016 11:08 AM)
Harry does have a partner in Sudden Impact Horace (played by Albert Popwell, who appeared in every DH film before this one, as Mustapha, Bradford Dilman's "black militant" in the Enforcer, as the pimp with the Drano can in Magnum Force, and as the first "do you feel lucky, punk" bank robber in Dirty Harry). But in Sudden Impact Harry is suspended from the SFPD and goes to Carmel on vacation where he runs into Sondra Locke's revenge play. So he has Horace meet him at a gun range there (I can't remember if he's there testing the .45 auto or if Horace brings it to him). The scene is played for suspense with Horace being made to look like a bad guy sneaking up on Harry until Harry wheels and draws down on him before realizing who he is. Soon after, the evil rape-gang murders Horace, which upsets Harry . . . until he sees that they have also injured his bulldog, and then he really gets peesed.
In America, nothing is lower than a dog killer.