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It takes some serious sniffing around, not to mention putting all those common household products to uncommon uses.Īgain, there's not a whole lot of time for feelings. He calls up private detective Brian Dennehy (an old buddy from 'F/X') and they follow the investigative trail. He'd look more depressed if he'd been denied Nintendo rights for an afternoon.ĭuring that smoke-machine scam, Brown's hidden cameras find out a little too much. When a child finds out his father's been murdered, for instance, he looks sorta down. On the other hand, too much of the movie's juice goes to special F/X and yuks.

'The microphone is in the left breast,' says Brown.īy keeping things at a slightly comic distance, 'FX 2' never asks you to buy the whole thing. The idea is to lead the psycho into a woman's apartment using a smoke machine, a life-size video image and - there's no other way to put this - a fake pair of breasts on Mason. That bad, real world kicks in when cop Tom Mason (Ticotin's ex) enlists Brown to lure a killer. Brown will also make resourceful use of aerosol sprays, baked beans and dried potato flakes. His latest project is Bluey the Clown, a red-nosed, imitative robot that does exactly what you do if you don a 'telemetry suit.' Naturally, Bluey will figure big later, as will an automatic tennis ball machine that fires sausages. These days, he's hanging with girlfriend Rachel Ticotin and making super toys.

FX DEADLY ART OF ILLUSION MOVIE

In the movie it's been five years since the events of 'F/X.' Brown has quit the flicks business. The movie won't gather classic dust next to the likes of 'The Once and Future King' or 'Thunderball,' but it's an entertaining excuse for gee-whiz gadgetry and the joy of fooling people. If the plot in 'FX 2' is an old routine, Brown delivers a sackful of new surprises. Maybe it's because, from Merlin to James Bond, the magic bag's always good for a spell or two. In 'FX 2 - The Deadly Art of Illusion,' movie special-effects guy Brown tries out his tricks in the real world of cops and Mafia.īut the fun's still there. IN 'F/X,' movie special-effects guy Bryan Brown tried out his tricks in the real world of cops and Mafia. 1.Children under 13 should be accompanied by a parent But watch it on video, paying it half a mind, and you might actually find it entertaining.' Box office

Sit quietly in the theater and watch it, and you will be driven to distraction by its inconsistencies and loopholes. F/X 2 is actually the kind of movie that rewards inattention. Roger Ebert gave the film two stars out of four and said, 'There should be a special category for movies that are neither good nor bad, but simply excessive. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 'rotten' score of 31% from 13 reviews. The sequel was not as successful as the first film. Peter Boretski as Carl Becker, Medallion Thief.Josie de Guzman as Marisa Velez, Police Computer Expert.Dominic Zamprogna as Chris Brandon, Mike's Son.Joanna Gleason as Assistant DA Liz Kennedy.At the same time, an unknown assassin is trying to kill Rollie and his family in an attempt to destroy all evidence of the murder. The antagonists mean to retrieve the stolen Medallions and return them to their proper owner, the Catholic church. He calls on the help of his friend Leo McCarthy ( Brian Dennehy) to investigate the death and they discover the trail leads to an old case involving stolen gold medallions that have been missing for decades. However, when things go wrong and the cop is killed, he begins to suspect a setup and corruption within the police department.

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Rollie Tyler ( Bryan Brown) is asked by his girlfriend's ex-husband, a cop, to use his special-effects expertise to help catch a serial killer.

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