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.

Gene Hackman is brilliant but the rest of the film lacks some of the original's spark.

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.

Very good.

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.

"...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..."

Opfølgeren er absolut seværdig, også selvom der er passager der synes lidt søgte. Afslutningen er i den grad en befrielse - jeg elsker den.