That film also introduced a familiar trope: big, final shootout in large industrial facility with catwalks.
It sounded as if the final big shootout was under way.
Webb, who was a producer and frequent director of the original series, insisted on a realistic approach, making average officers his heroes and doing without big shootouts or noisy car chases.
Frances Ortiz, a bank manager in Manhattan who bought a three-story town house in Mott Haven nearly four years ago, said that within weeks of her arrival "there was a big shootout with rifles and people shooting from the roof.
There'll be one more big shootout over this.
But the spectacular action is saved for the big final shootout, involving a convoy of tank trucks carrying cocaine-spiked gasoline; the possibilities for reckless driving, exploding trucks and flying bodies on a fiery, winding road are countless.
That was when Fred Carrasco had tried to break out of Huntsville back in 1974 with a big shootout.
Having a big shootout with Kyuc and his men leading to Kyuc and Det Parks demise and Danny's leg being shot.
The story moves from Bo Weinberg (Bruce Willis) being sent into the sea with his feet in a tub of cement to the big shootout from which the gang will never recover.
That's why there are no big shootouts; the violence is all very intimate and close-up, hand to hand, face to face.