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French Connection II (1975)

French Connection II (1975)

GENRESAction,Crime,Drama,Thriller
LANGEnglish,French
ACTOR
Gene HackmanFernando ReyBernard FressonPhilippe Léotard
DIRECTOR
John Frankenheimer

SYNOPSICS

French Connection II (1975) is a English,French movie. John Frankenheimer has directed this movie. Gene Hackman,Fernando Rey,Bernard Fresson,Philippe Léotard are the starring of this movie. It was released in 1975. French Connection II (1975) is considered one of the best Action,Crime,Drama,Thriller movie in India and around the world.

New York narcotics detective Popeye Doyle follows the trail of the French connection smuggling ring to France where he teams up with the gendarmes to hunt down the ringleader.

French Connection II (1975) Reviews

  • Good sequel with excellent acting by Gene Hackman and splendid support cast

    ma-cortes2005-09-23

    The movie concerns on Popeye Doyle (Gene Hackman), an unorthodox New York narcotics cop investigating the flow of drug that follows the trail of the French connection . He travels to Marsaille following the foreign connection and tries to track down the eluded evil Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey) , the smuggling ring chief , who escaped from N.Y.C. There , he joins forces to the French gendarmes (Bernard Fresson and Jean Pierre Castaldi , among others) to hunt down the ringleader . Then , Popeye getaways his French escorts and goes himself into action . The picture is the follow-up to ¨French Connection¨(by William Friedkin) but didn't achieved the same success and was a flop at box office . However , being , nowadays , considered a very good film and highly rated . In the movie there is action , suspense , violence , intrigue and a little bit of humor in charge of Popeye Doyle , as he begins to find himself as a fish out of water in France and particularly on his relationships with the French people . The film develops a certain social critical to the French habits and there's specially a banter to the Police called Gendarmerie . The motion picture has action-packed but in the intervening period when the starring ends up being abducted by Alain Charnier's henchmen , it results to be a little bit boring , with overlong scenes ; besides , quite disagreeable as Popeye is injected heroin . Gene Hackman's interpretation as the rebel and nonconformist Popeye Doyle is top-notch as well as the previous film that's why he gained deservedly an Academy Award . Fernando Rey repeats perfectly his role as the elegant and cunning nasty and the secondary casting formed by French actors are very fine . The picture was stunningly directed by John Frankenheimer. Rating : Very good and well worth watching.

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  • Popeye in limbo

    manuel-pestalozzi2003-08-05

    This certainly must be the strangest of all sequels in motion picture history. The two main characters of French Connection I are still there, played by the same actors, Don Ellis composed another compelling musical score – but everything else has changed. The script is by someone else, the director is not a young experimentalist but an experienced and highly respected professional, the location is not New York but Marseilles, France for the whole duration of the movie. If you like FC I it is not at all certain you will like FC II, they did not use the same recipe (and I thought that's all the sequel business is about!). I, for my part, think this unusual kind of dealing with a sequel is fascinating. I like both FC I and FC II, but for entirely different reasons. FC I is, as I see it, a situation. The actors, the events and their surroundings constitute a whole. Everything fits, that makes FC I a great movie. In FC II we meet Popeye Doyle in Marseilles. And from the first moment it becomes very clear: Popeye does NOT fit - and this is basically the story of FC II. A man finds himself on foreign ground, where all is incomprehensible, where every step is dangerous. Popeye is a fish out of the water, he nervously gasps for oxygen. All his contacts are French and Popeye can't figure them out, be they policemen or criminals or just common individuals. POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD So FC II focuses on the person of Popeye Doyle (all alone, without his buddy "Cloudy"). At first sight one might think, knowing the story of FC I, that Doyle is on a personal vendetta. But no, he is in France on official business! His commission is to assist the French police in the capturing of drug kingpin Charnier as he is the only one able to identify him. Being under the command of some frog he can hardly understand, that's not to Popeyes taste. Soon he strikes out on his own. Charnier's men capture him, hold him in a dingy room somewhere in the old town for weeks and make him a heroin addict. He then is deposited at the stairs of the police commandature. The French police take Popeye in, lock him in an underground cell and force him to go cold turkey. His contact in the French police monitors Popeye and stays close to him during that time, without really becoming his friend. The harrowing scenes during the "rehabilitation process" are probably Gene Hackman's best on screen performance (apparently much of it was improvised). The movie resembles here a stage play and is far from mainstream moviemaking. The "rehabilitation" is a success, but Popeye is not the person he was before. Somehow the viewer gets the impression that he is a broken man (or maybe he has just become more mature?). The French police officer confirms Doyle's suspicion that his superiors in New York did not send him over to act but had an agreement with the French police to use him as a bait for Charnier – a mere puppet. So it becomes clear – more so than in FC I – that Popeye Doyle is nothing but a small cog in the big, incomprehensible system.

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  • rocks to a different tune than its predecessor

    dr_foreman2004-10-09

    "The French Connection" is a great movie. And so is its sequel. "French Connection II" (strangely, there is no "the" in the title) does not just retread the same ground as the first film. Instead of concentrating on surveillance and the nuts-and-bolts of police work, this film delves deeper into Popeye Doyle, eliciting tremendous sympathy for him as he faces alienation, culture shock, and ultimately drug addiction. Yet his character remains true to form; he's still violent, grumpy, and prejudiced, and all the more real for these flaws. Of course the concept is a bit silly; the first film was a true story, and this is a Hollywoodized tale of revenge. But even with such a terrible premise, "French Connection II" manages to excel, largely because it's so well directed. I'm something of a John Frankenheimer apologist, and I don't see how he represents a big step down from William Friedkin; they're pretty much equal talents in my view. And that makes the two French Connection movies roughly equal, too. Make sure to shelve your anti-sequel prejudice before watching this one; you may find yourself pleasantly surprised. Oh, and props to Gene Hackman, as always.

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  • Gritty Street-Wise Cop Action With Teeth

    orthodoxhedonist2005-11-12

    The French Connection and its sequel are the Grandfather to such classics as To Live and Die in L.A., Copland, and Narc, and the anti-thesis of all of those 80's flops either far too "Hollywood" or far too "by the book". Hackman is still the "knock down, drag out", shoot first ask later 2-fisted narc that doesn't know what Miranda means that he was in part I, but with a change of scenery that takes him across the pond. The terrain has changed, but the raw unadulterated character acting of Hackman still makes it one hell of a roller coaster ride. Rife with dirty cops, drug smugglers, and French thugs, this movies direction and writing reminds instantly that it is part of the production catalyst that would later see series like The Shield have such success in prime time TV. The 70's rarely pulled punches when it came to top billed cop movies, starting with Dirty Harry, the original French Connection and then snowballing into classics like Serpico. The French Connection II is no exception. This movie won't disappoint any fan of either the original, or anyone that wanted to see for themselves Gene Hackman carrying a lead action role almost through the screen.

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  • Brilliant.

    Adam Frisch1999-12-19

    I actually saw this one before seeing the first. Now that I've seen both several times, I must admit that rarely have I seen a better follow up. Gene Hackman is brilliant in this cat and mouse chase in the french town of Marseilles. Especially his acting in the cold turkey scenes are just amazing. It's a sad fact that they don't do these types of movies anymore. Today it's all about overloading your senses, thinking that more is always better. This is a masterpiece in sparingly used soundeffects, music and cinematography. If you've seen the first one, make sure to see this one. At all cost.

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