Sorry people, don't believe the hype...HORRIBLE!

Rating: 6/10 (11 January 2003)

SPOILERS WITHIN (EVEN THOUGH YOU SHOULDN'T EVEN BOTHER SEEING THIS MOVIE ANYWAY)
A movie simply has to have a good ending. It just has to. This does not. In fact, it barely comes close. What the heck is wrong with the people that call this one of the best of all time? Have they been locked in a closet watching Ishtar or Vegas Vacation over and over? Tell me seriously, what makes this movie good? There wasn't any music to add to the suspense (what suspense?) until the movie was half over. There wasn't any build up of Jack and Faye's characters caring for each other, so how can I feel for Jack that Faye died at the end? I felt nothing. And the ending was so unbelievably HORRIBLE, it left so many open-ended questions. Is the old man really going to run off with his daughter/granddaughter from incest? Is the old man really not going to atone for the murder he committed? What a crappy movie.
I've really been trying to beef up on my 1970's movies because I realized that I haven't seen too many of them from that decade. So I started with the French Connection and now this one. Wow, who would've thought that both of those two movies had the most notoriously horrible endings? What a coincidence! And yet, people loved the French Connection too. Stay away from both of those movies.