Review of Deadly Hero

This film has a good cast and is all around good except for the ending. I appreciate that they wanted the heroine to square off with the rogue cop without anyone else's help but it would have worked better if she had had some help--maybe a friend or a boyfriend or someone who could have come to her aid. In the end we don't even know what happens. The screen freezes on a shot of the cop pointing a gun at her. Possibly he has died and he is somehow holding the gun anyway. I kind of had that feeling but there is no reason to leave things open ended like that, it adds nothing to the film. You have to wonder if something happened while they were filming the last scene and they just went with this. I think something similar happened with City of the Living Dead. Or maybe some imbecilic friend of the director showed up on set and said to the director, "Hey I know, why not end the film with a freeze frame of the villain so you don't know what happens?" Surely everyone else there was like, "Oh my god don't do that," but he didn't listen.

Hell I would have even been happy if the cop ended up killing her and sweeping the whole situation under the rug. Not a cheerful conclusion but at least it would have been more realistic and definitive. And let's say she did kill him. With no one else there to witness what actually happened they probably would have arrested her for killing the cop.

So really I don't get how they make a good movie up until the end and then ruin the whole thing like that. Again was no one else there who could have talked him out of it?