F/X2 (1991)

Director:

Richard Franklin

Writers (WGA):

Robert T. Megginson (characters) &
Gregory Fleeman (characters) ...

Release Date:

10 May 1991 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller

Tagline:

Outgunned by the mob, outmanned by the cops..... their effects had _better_ be special!

Plot:

F/X man Rollie Tyler is now a toymaker. Mike, the ex-husband of his girlfriend, Kim is a cop. He asks Rollie to help him catch a killer...

Plot Keywords:

Policewoman Killing | Sequel | Special Effects | Plastic Over Face | Murder

Cast

Bryan Brown	...	Roland 'Rollie' Tyler
Brian Dennehy	...	Leo McCarthy
Rachel Ticotin	...	Kim Brandon
Joanna Gleason	...	Liz Kennedy, Assistant DA
Philip Bosco	...	Lt. Ray Silak, NYPD
Kevin J. O'Connor	...	Matt Neely
Tom Mason	...	Mike Brandon, NYPD
Dominic Zamprogna	...	Chris Brandon, Mike's Son
Jossie DeGuzman	...	Marisa Velez, Police Computer Expert
John Walsh	...	Rado
Peter Boretski	...	Carl Becker, Medallion Thief
Lisa Fallon	...	Kylie, Model for Decoy
Lee Broker	...	DeMarco
Philip Akin	...	Det. McQuay
Tony De Santis	...	Det. Santoni

Also Known As:

F/X 2: The Deadly Art of Illusion
FX2

Runtime:

108 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (DeLuxe)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:12 | Iceland:16 (video rating) | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Canada:14A | Finland:K-14 | Germany:16 | New Zealand:R13 | Norway:15 | Singapore:PG | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:PG-13

Filming Locations:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Company:

Dodi Fayed - Jack Wiener

Trivia:

When Rollie calls young Chris on the phone, the movie Chris is watching on television is F/X (1986), the prelude to this movie.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Rollie, Kim and Chris are trapped in the mall with the killer, they try to escape into a meat locker but it’s padlocked. A few minutes later they try again and now it’s inexplicably unlocked.

Quotes:

Leo McCarthy: Rollie, tell me those aren't the real medallions.
Rollie Tyler: Yeah, I swithced 'em.
Leo McCarthy: Rollie you dumb bastard, the mob wasn't stealing them, they were returning them, to the Vatican.
Rollie Tyler: Nobody told me.

Movie Connections:

Features F/X (1986)

A waste of precious time!

Not even worth a talk.This comment is only meant as a warning to people who value their free time.The movie has a ridiculous script, with countless points where it's obvious that the course of action was decided on the set(for example the chase in the supermarket where Rollie seems not to know what he's doing, and why), and a whole series of ridiculous and unnecessary fx-tricks display(like the can-explosion in the supermarket), meant only to deceive the audience into not thinking about the numerous flaws(bad camera-work and even worse directing and pyrotechnics).Basically it's an attempt to sell the characters form the original(which is not a great, but a quite watchable movie) in the same packing, just like a remake, but without any story.

A waste of Brian Brown's, Brian Dennehy's (both decent actors), but most of all a waste of our free time.