Okay…I admit to being one of the few who liked the movie Tango & Cash. But there’s one thing that’s always bothered me about it.
I don’t feel the need for a spoiler box, as the movie’s been out for well over 10 years.
First of all, Gabe Cash (Kurt Russell) confronts Skinner (Michael Jeter), and gets an audio cassette where Skinner was contacted by Yves Perrett (Jack Palance) to compile a tape of Ray Tango (Sylvester Stallone) and Gabe Cash that would indicate that they were crooked cops. By Skinner’s (and Cash’s) own admission, Skinner is the foremost expert on authentification of audio recordings. Cash was in the studio with a shotgun. I’m sure that any attorney would argue that Skinner made the tape under the threat of violence.
For that matter, is a tape recording admissable evidence in a case like that?
Later of, when Kiki (Teri Hatcher) is kidnapped, Tango and Cash to to Perrett’s hideout (in the RV from hell), kill Perrett’s henchmen, and Perrett himself.
So there’s NO way that anyone can verify the story, or bring the supposed mastermind of their imprisonment to trial, as they killed him.
WHILE they were on the lam. Granted, they were cops, and I’m sure that counts for something. But the fact remains that, while attempting to clear their name, they escaped from prison (the fact that they were innocent shouldn’t have any impact on the fact that they DID break that law, as it was committed at a time when they were presumed guilty…remember, they did plea bargain to a lesser charge. Even though they were transferred to a different prison than they were supposed to go to, they still pled to a charge with a sentence of not more than 18 months), potentially coerced/threatened someone, and killed the person who supposedly was the cause of all of it.
At the end of the movie, they give each other a high-five, and the screen freezes on the image, turns it into a newspaper photo, and said that the cops were back on the force.
How? Did anything really get resolved? Would LA county (or whoever would investigate such charges) REALLY turn a blind eye to all of the damage done by their escape and killing spree?
Isn’t the “feel-good ending” asking us to suspend disbelief a little too much?