Sudden Impact take place weeks or maybe months apart." Roger Ebert was more positive; while noting that the film was "implausible" with "a cardboard villain", he also praised it as "a Dirty Harry movie with only the good parts left in" and "a great audience picture". "Sudden Impact" is best remembered for Harry's catchphrase, "Go ahead, make my day". United States President Ronald Reagan used the "make my day" line in a March 1985 speech threatening to veto legislation raising taxes. When campaigning for office as mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, in 1986, Eastwood used bumper stickers entitled "Go Ahead — Make Me
Go Ahead and Break My Heart you just to get me through" and "You know I'm broken, I don't trust anymore / Last thing I needed was to fall in love". "Go Ahead and Break My Heart" was generally well received by music critics. Janine Schaults from "Consequence of Sound" enjoyed the track, claiming that the "rousing duet [was] destined for hitsville", with her thanking Stefani for "com[ing] in to save the day" with her "pouty vocals". Erlewine from AllMusic thought the song would qualify as "an adult contemporary hit". Scott Stroud from "The National" favored it for being "the least subtle" of the "hard-to-miss observations