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French Connection II, sequel or no, comes off as more of a felt work, and what I make contact with through it is a director. Mar 14, 2015 | Full Review…
French Connection II, sequel or no, comes off as more of a felt work, and what I make contact with through it is a director.
Richard T. Jameson
looks lost in space and time Dec 17, 2009 | Rating: 5/10 | Full Review…
looks lost in space and time
Dragan Antulov
may wrap up the story the original began, but it just doesn't have the same magic Apr 1, 2009 | Rating: 3/5
may wrap up the story the original began, but it just doesn't have the same magic
Christopher Null
The last ten minutes are the best thing about it (that final shot is one of the best of the '70s), and it's no coincidence that in this ten minutes Frankenheimer returns to his technician passions. Mar 24, 2009 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
The last ten minutes are the best thing about it (that final shot is one of the best of the '70s), and it's no coincidence that in this ten minutes Frankenheimer returns to his technician passions.
Walter Chaw
While it certainly is a couple of notches below its action classic original, French Connection II is still a darned good action film that maintains the core of its central character and has some added layers that are genuinely disturbing. Mar 14, 2009 | Full Review…
While it certainly is a couple of notches below its action classic original, French Connection II is still a darned good action film that maintains the core of its central character and has some added layers that are genuinely disturbing.
Ryan Cracknell
you can't help but feel a sense of disillusionment ... because 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 and the ultimately cycl Mar 11, 2009 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
you can't help but feel a sense of disillusionment ... because 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 and the ultimately cycl
James Kendrick
If you take away comparisons with the original, it's a reasonably solid, if flawed, crime thriller; but it does shrink into the shadow cast by its vastly superior predecessor. Feb 23, 2009 | Rating: 73/100
If you take away comparisons with the original, it's a reasonably solid, if flawed, crime thriller; but it does shrink into the shadow cast by its vastly superior predecessor.
Brian Webster
More conventional than its predecessor, but it's still unconventional by the cop thriller standard set by a wash of anonymous, lesser films. [Blu-ray] Feb 22, 2009 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
More conventional than its predecessor, but it's still unconventional by the cop thriller standard set by a wash of anonymous, lesser films. [Blu-ray]
Peter Canavese
Nearly as high powered and gritty as the first 'Connection.' Jul 2, 2007 | Rating: 4/5
Nearly as high powered and gritty as the first 'Connection.'
Steve Crum
John Frankenheimer's ("The Manchurian Candidate") version outshines William Friedkin's 1971 original. Nov 12, 2004 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
John Frankenheimer's ("The Manchurian Candidate") version outshines William Friedkin's 1971 original.
Dennis Schwartz
A classic with a terrifid car chase Sep 26, 2004 | Rating: 5/5
A classic with a terrifid car chase
Tony Medley
Couldn't even hold the original film's hat, but earns points just for not sucking outright. Jul 25, 2002 | Rating: 3/5
Couldn't even hold the original film's hat, but earns points just for not sucking outright.
Scott Weinberg
Not as exciting as the first installment (at least not until the final 15 minutes of the film), Perhaps too much time was spent on the addiction/recovery aspects of the story, and I did not feel the international political intrigue was played up as well as it might have been. Still, it is a worthy sequel.
Super Reviewer
A great follow up to the first and in many ways just as entertaining. It’s more about Popeye Doyle rather than the case, but that’s basically what I would want. Gene Hackman plays the character so well that you could watch him for hours and not get tired. I love the fact that it actually ties into the first one without becoming dependent on it. While it might have the same look, it’s a very different film. The characters change and it becomes more about revenge. The heroin scenes really do have an effect on you and I think it’s a step that was necessary to make it as gritty as the original. Definitely a great movie that can stand on its own as a crime epic.
Incredibly grim sequel to one of the best hard-boiled cop movies of the 70s, Popeye Doyle blusters into France to find himself out of his depth and completely ineffectual in this strange land. Add to this the humiliation of being kidnapped and completely broken by the bad guy who deliberately hooks him on heroin, and a wrath-filled vengeance is assured. Sometimes difficult to watch, but a powerful sequel.
Released in the summer of 1975,Gene Hackman returns as hard-boiled NY Cop Popeye Doyle in the sequel to one of the greatest cop movies of all time. "French Connection II",has Hackman again as Popeye Doyle trailing and going after the notorious heroin drug kingpin from the streets of New York all the way to dangerous towns of France. And this time around Popeye is not only out for revenge,but to settle a score once and for all. And he does. Action galore and non-stop suspense. Directed by John Frankenheimer.
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