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French Connection II

1975
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
1h 59m
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Rated 16 Jun 2012
72
32nd
Starts off pretty good, even if the fish out of water tropes and Marseilles as mini New York get a bit old. The second half is pretty unbalanced, though, with a tedious character segment followed by a tedious shootout and chase segment. Hackman is what keeps this afloat.
Rated 03 Mar 2007
70
82nd
Very good.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
84
90th
Loses something from the original, but the strength of Popeye Doyle's character and Gene Hackman's acting is more than capable of carrying the film, which remains compelling as Doyle makes a risky but dogged attempt to track down escaped drugs kingpin Alain Charnier, from the first film, in his hometown of Marseilles, France. A good mix of fish-out-of-water antics and tense action.
Rated 31 Dec 2008
74
96th
Opfølgeren er absolut seværdig, også selvom der er passager der synes lidt søgte. Afslutningen er i den grad en befrielse - jeg elsker den.
Rated 21 Mar 2009
30
61st
"...the finality of it is so harsh and so sudden that it draws your attention less to the idea of justice served than it does to the brute simplicity of violent retribution..."
Rated 25 Oct 2009
80
81st
One of the best sequels ever made!
Rated 02 May 2010
87
78th
A very decent follow-up to the masterpiece four years earlier. Gene Hackman is still as great, and again the suspense of the movie is amazing. Especially the last 10 minutes (and the very last scene). Loved it.
Rated 20 May 2010
58
48th
It's The French Connection... in France!!! Frankenheimer makes a valiant effort to recreate the rugged, gritty style of the first movie, but the script is not as realistic and more reminiscent of standard cop movies. Action set pieces in the first one, such as the car chase, were extravagant but somehow plausible. Here, key scenes are hard to swallow (the abduction, the hotel arson and onwards), and characters are flat. Gene Hackman is so awesome that his acting alone props the movie up.
Rated 26 May 2010
77
24th
Gene Hackman is brilliant but the rest of the film lacks some of the original's spark.
Rated 29 May 2012
73
62nd
Hackman ups his game - the film doesn't. Still, it's a lot more memorable than a whole bunch of mediocre cop films that came crawling out of the woodwork after the release of the original FC.
Rated 11 Jun 2013
77
53rd
Excellent cop drama lacks the higher ambitions of the original, but suceeds to a much greater degree thanks mostly to Hackman's sterling performance (especially in the second half) and a screenplay which may bow to the fish-out-of-water convention, but makes Popeye a far more empathic and endearing character. Climactic chase between Hackman and Rey is a real wow, with a wonderful gut punch of a finale.
Rated 11 Aug 2014
80
50th
This is a sequel, but it's also a clean slate with the same character. It makes every effort, it seems, to eschew yet another variation on that car-train chase that sparked abundant attempted duplications. Frankenheimer aspires to get inside Popeye, to comprehend him more extensively. But if that was his purpose, perhaps it's a misnomer to transfer the commotion from New York to Marseille.
Rated 23 Mar 2018
60
47th
Authentic and grounded. Insane performance by Gene Hackman, and a chilling finale.
Rated 10 Dec 2018
60
20th
Liked it at first, until Doyle turns into a junkie and Hackman starts chewing the scenery. I would have preferred a ham-fisted fish-out-of-water romance subplot to that implausible nonsense. Really bad shootouts, too. And, come on, the fucking head of an international heroin-smuggling syndicate is caught red-handed watching his henchmen put the drugs into boxes and has to flee on foot. My suspension of disbelief was well and truly lost by that point.
Rated 29 May 2019
60
39th
bir fransız polisinin sabrı ve insaniyeti? dalgası bir yana hem hikaye hem de senaryoda büyük açıkları olan, takip sahneleri ve bu tarz filmler düşünüldüğünde ilk akla gelen isimlerden olsa da frankenheimer'ın friedkin'i arattığı bir devam filmi. ilk film, karakter üzerinde olduğu kadar soruşturma süreçlerine ve detaya odaklanıyor olmasıyla yükseliyordu ve bu dengenin bozulması, diğer faktörlerle beraber vasat bir devam filmine çeviriyor. kendisini.
Rated 28 Dec 2020
54
21st
Can't recommend this film despite the pleasure of watching Gene Hackman.
Rated 20 Aug 2021
80
37th
Viewed August 18, 2021. Where Friedkin's film barreled forward with increasing intensity, French Connection II deliberately denies us that feeling of movement and momentum. But all of this constrained tension is clearly building towards something, a pay-off that becomes clear in the bravura extended chase scene that serves as the film's climax.
Rated 05 Jun 2022
70
72nd
HARD TO BE A COP. Weird ride, huh? First hour seems like descent to hell as Doyle drinks and walks around Marseille, ending up in the hands of Charnier, forced to be a drug addict. Second is just hard-boiled, paranoid, restrained angry vengeance, from a hotel set on fire to a relentless manhunt under the sun. Both baroque and raw, both disjointed and intense. Gotta love how Doyle gets through nearly everything to take down this dope empire - and then he does it with just a couple of deadly shots
Rated 19 Jun 2023
64
40th
İlk filmin gölgesinde kalıyor. Çok farklı bir devam filmi.
Rated 08 Aug 2023
80
53rd
Almost the opposite of the original,. Crappy setup, they make you hate the protagonist, but then there is the one of the best recovery-from-drug-addiction scenes in all of film. Hackman shows his chops, in spite of the plot. Almost must-see.
Rated 02 Dec 2023
77
48th
Is this what sequels did before the blockbuster franchises took over? Tell a significantly different story? The changes were very unexpected, which is a very good thing, however watching Popeye become an addict & recover (implausibly?) gets repetiive after a while. Hackman also must've loved this as he even gets to overact at one point. It also doesn't help that Popeye's such an unlikeable jerk here, but there's finally some suspense after all that & a climax that's perfectly curt.

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