There is the occasional cheesy set piece to plague filler, while dramatic material goes plagued by some histrionics, or at least dramatics which feel histrionic under the influence of a rather sentimental atmosphere.
Of course, the film isn't too shabby either, although, unlike Hackman, it can get a little cheesy. In retrospect, it is a little hard to take Hackman all that seriously in this film, when he was about three years away from getting his butt kicked by a flying alien in tights, but make no mistake, in this film, he's a good deal more groovy than Queens' "Another Bites the Dust". To be an old dude who has never been young, Hackman is still a man I wouldn't want to cross, unless, of course, I was Superman or something. Yeah, if this film's title is a metaphor for death, then it's a little more comprehensive than "bite the dust", although it might just be telling us that Gene Hackman is so awesome that he can catch a bullet with his teeth. You know, I was wondering why Gene Hackman retired a whole decade ago, if he did, in fact, quit because of his age, but he was getting up there back in 1975, so at any time, he might really bite the bullet. "Another one bites the bullet, another one bites the bullet and another one gone, and another one gone another bites the bullet!" Man, that's a lazy reference, but then again, the song was a little lazy to begin with, though not necessarily when this film came out, because it's somehow older than the song in question.
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