Question: At the start, why does Tango empty his gun (of unused cartridges) and reload with different bullets before shooting the tanker? Unless I missed something, it's never explained.
Jon Sandys
Tango & Cash (1989)
1 question
Directed by: Albert Magnoli, Andrey Konchalovskiy
Starring: Jack Palance, Kurt Russell, Sylvester Stallone, Teri Hatcher
Continuity mistake: When Stallone stops the bad guys in the semi full of cocaine, they fly through a windshield that is apparently made of plate glass, and not the safety glass found on almost every other vehicle windshield on earth.
Ray Tango: I think that with your IQ, you're unarmed and still very dangerous.
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Answer: He was doing a combat reload, where you eject all the rounds, spent or not and fill the revolver with new ones. It guarantees six shots, rather than relying on "indexing" where you count every round fired.
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