I am a Phoenix native and I was on location in May of 1977 when they filmed the scene with the bus going east on Adams before it went up the steps of what was shown in the movie as Phoenix "City Hall", it never was city hall, the building was, and still is the Phoenix Civic Plaza.
The movie has a good plot, but the shooting scenes were a little over-done to the point of silliness, especially the one at Gus Malley's house in Vegas when Las Vegas PD officers fire a storm of bullets into the house that tear it down completely. The scene where Shockley was crawling through the house trying to get away from the firestorm of bullets that are flying all around and tearing up everything next to him, and... he never gets hit(???) What are the odds of that happening? There were other scenes they could have done a better job on, like at the end when Malley shoots Blakelock, and all the police officers behind him just stand there as if nothing was happening instead of getting out of the way of the bullet trajectories.
That's why I thought Eastwood could have done a better job with some of those scenes that were a bit far-fetched from reality. But again, this is Hollywood.
The movie has a good plot, but the shooting scenes were a little over-done to the point of silliness, especially the one at Gus Malley's house in Vegas when Las Vegas PD officers fire a storm of bullets into the house that tear it down completely. The scene where Shockley was crawling through the house trying to get away from the firestorm of bullets that are flying all around and tearing up everything next to him, and... he never gets hit(???) What are the odds of that happening? There were other scenes they could have done a better job on, like at the end when Malley shoots Blakelock, and all the police officers behind him just stand there as if nothing was happening instead of getting out of the way of the bullet trajectories.
That's why I thought Eastwood could have done a better job with some of those scenes that were a bit far-fetched from reality. But again, this is Hollywood.