Blow Out was moderately intriguing until the end. Whether they were going for maximum drama or they just didn't know how to finish it, it went south the moment Jack (John Travolta) decided to wire Sally (Nancy Allen). The ending was beyond bad and so was the music that went with it.
OK, just to catch you up to the ending I want so badly to mention: Jack is a soundman for movies. While he's in a park recording sounds he catches the sound of a car skidding off the road and plummeting into a creek. He dives into the water, saves Sally, but the other occupant of the vehicle, Governor McRyan, drowns.
Jack knows that it was no accident because he hears a bang before the car skids off the road and nothing is adding up. Jack also gets a hold of video evidence of his supposition that the car going off the road was no accident. After some introspection he decides to go public with what he knows and Sally is instrumental in that.
Now the ending...
Jack wires Sally as she goes to give the tapes to who she thinks is the news anchorman, but is actually the assassin (John Lithgow). This course of action didn't even make sense because the anchorman wanted to meet Jack and Sally, so there was no need for Jack to hide in the background while Sally delivered the audio and video tapes. It was done solely to advance the plot because Sally didn't watch news hence she would never know who the anchorman was. It's a dumb plot device to say the least, but let's move on.
When Sally and the assassin hop on the train Jack couldn't keep up, so he jumped in his vehicle and sped across the eerily empty streets of Philadelphia to catch up to them. He busted through a police barricade and even a parade to eventually crash into a department store window and knock himself out in the process.
When he awoke in the back of an ambulance--unrestrained I might add, even though he nearly killed dozens of people--he resumed his pursuit of Sally and the assassin because apparently the assassin patiently waited for Jack to regain consciousness before he resumed his plan of killing Sally.
Jack didn't get to the assassin in time to save Sally from being strangled to death, but he got there in time to prevent her body from being mutilated with puncture wounds from an ice pick. He was even able to guide the assassin's hand to his own chest cavity several times because clearly the assassin was so weak as to let a guy grab his hand and force him to stab himself over and over.
Look, the movie wasn't going to be great, but it had a chance at being decent. There was no need for such a sloppy and ludicrous ending. Travolta and Allen were barely watchable but I thought the plot would be intelligent enough to bail them both out. Not the case. As it was, the movie took itself from being an edible meal to being a twice heated microwave dinner.
OK, just to catch you up to the ending I want so badly to mention: Jack is a soundman for movies. While he's in a park recording sounds he catches the sound of a car skidding off the road and plummeting into a creek. He dives into the water, saves Sally, but the other occupant of the vehicle, Governor McRyan, drowns.
Jack knows that it was no accident because he hears a bang before the car skids off the road and nothing is adding up. Jack also gets a hold of video evidence of his supposition that the car going off the road was no accident. After some introspection he decides to go public with what he knows and Sally is instrumental in that.
Now the ending...
Jack wires Sally as she goes to give the tapes to who she thinks is the news anchorman, but is actually the assassin (John Lithgow). This course of action didn't even make sense because the anchorman wanted to meet Jack and Sally, so there was no need for Jack to hide in the background while Sally delivered the audio and video tapes. It was done solely to advance the plot because Sally didn't watch news hence she would never know who the anchorman was. It's a dumb plot device to say the least, but let's move on.
When Sally and the assassin hop on the train Jack couldn't keep up, so he jumped in his vehicle and sped across the eerily empty streets of Philadelphia to catch up to them. He busted through a police barricade and even a parade to eventually crash into a department store window and knock himself out in the process.
When he awoke in the back of an ambulance--unrestrained I might add, even though he nearly killed dozens of people--he resumed his pursuit of Sally and the assassin because apparently the assassin patiently waited for Jack to regain consciousness before he resumed his plan of killing Sally.
Jack didn't get to the assassin in time to save Sally from being strangled to death, but he got there in time to prevent her body from being mutilated with puncture wounds from an ice pick. He was even able to guide the assassin's hand to his own chest cavity several times because clearly the assassin was so weak as to let a guy grab his hand and force him to stab himself over and over.
Look, the movie wasn't going to be great, but it had a chance at being decent. There was no need for such a sloppy and ludicrous ending. Travolta and Allen were barely watchable but I thought the plot would be intelligent enough to bail them both out. Not the case. As it was, the movie took itself from being an edible meal to being a twice heated microwave dinner.