Great film, really enjoyed it BUT...

.. well, to be quite frank what a shit ending!!

This was on the other night on BBC 4 (UK) so, being a Hackman fan and having never seen it before I grabbed it. It was good, really good. A gritty, raw thriller.

But that ending man, it was awful. I mean after all that, all the way through the film this guy evades the cops and then, at the end the screen goes black and we get a gun shot and the MF gets away?? Come on! How the hell did he get away? There was no 'pay off' for the audience at all, it was terrible. A shame as what had come before was good.

Also, who was the guy that Hackman nailed at the end? I mean the one he kills before running off to find the main French dude. I was a tad confused.