And with that, there really wasn’t any room for a third film, or at least that’s what I came to realize. It was decent but Leo is killed in the first episode losing the fun “buddy cop” angle. They just needed a better plot to work through than something that plays like a greatest hits album of the first film.Īnd that’s where the franchise ends - unless you count The Series that ran for a couple of seasons. There are parts that work and when Brown and Dennehy share the screen they’re a pretty cool dynamic duo. Also as a PG-13 outing, it’s pretty campy at times with a deadly assassin that can only kills the suspense as he's often the butt of a number of sight gags (robot clown fight, anyone?). ![]() Don’t get me wrong, it’s a fun follow-up, but the stakes aren’t that high on the butcher's shelf and the mystery feels a little thin. Sadly this already pretty thin concept gets stretched one latex application too far with F/X 2. For two heroes in one film who only meet at the very end, it’s a slick thriller that hits all the right notes. Then you have the side story of Brian Dennehy’s shrewd NYPD detective sticking his nose into things and putting the pieces together on his own. One twist after another is uncovered leaving our special effects master Bryan Brown working overtime to keep all ten pints of blood in his body. The first film is a pulpy genre classic with great action and plenty of thrills to keep the blood pumping. The F/Xfilms are a ton of fun even if the second film is nowhere near as good as the first. Once again the only man who can get Rollie out of a jam is his old pal Leo. Only the sting goes terribly wrong leaving Rollie on the run with crooked cops and a mob hitman on Rollie’s tail. ![]() Now when his girlfriend’s police officer ex-husband needs Rollie’s brand of talent to stop a knife-wielding serial killer, the ace special effects man can’t resist the challenge. In F/X 2 we find Rollie happily retired from the visual effects game, in a great relationship with a beautiful woman and her son. Now he’ll have to rely on his bag of tricks from the trade to find out what’s really going on - and he’s going to get some unexpected help from the street-smart burnout detective Leo McCarthy (Brian Dennehy) who smelled a rat in the setup from the very beginning. Only the gig goes sideways when Rollie’s employers try to kill him. As the best in the art of illusion, the Justice Department needs Rollie’s help to make a fake execution of a mobster entering the witness protection program. In F/X we meet ace special effects man Rollie Tyler (Bryan Brown).
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