Actor Brian Thompson actually got injured during the final chase scene as his character is chasing Bridgette Nielsen through the manhole leading into the sewers. Prior to the shooting of the scene, Thompson questioned both George P. Cosmatos and the Special Effects person about the Bondo squib hits that had real charges that were supposed to go off when Sylvester Stallone shoots at him in the scene. Thompson asked to hold the shot and asked "What would happen if these charges go off?" in which the F/X person told him "It's not going to happen you have the leather jacket" and Thompson said "What about the bottom of my chin?". However, Thompson states that Cosmatos wanted to do it in one take and Thompson disputes that it could've been done in several takes, one involving him and then a shot of his stunt double. Cosmatos refused to listen to Thompson and what Thompson had said actually happened and left him with a bloody chin and neck. Thompson wishes he had punched the guy in charge of the effects to this day and because of his experience with Special Effects has personally imposed a rule in which he asks every Special Effects person working on his films if an effect goes wrong the way he's thinking it and the effects person doesn't nod or say anything, he will not do it.

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