I agree with Beef. I think Nighthawks worked because Sly wasn't trying to be a hero per se. He never tried to upstage Rutger -- just like he didn't try to upstage the Apollo Creed character. The producers were bummed out by the low gross. It was released right after the Reagan assasination attempt and during all that IRA stuff going on in Ireland at the time.
Sheer 80's synthesizer soundtrack by Keith Emerson (Emerson Lake & Palmer) wasn't bad either.
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