Poster of F/X2

F/X2

Action, Thriller

Director: Richard Franklin

Release Date: May 10, 1991

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F/X2 is fun in its shamelessness. If you saw F/X, then you will think that none of the events of F/X2 should occur. Shouldn’t Rollie be in hiding? Shouldn’t he know better? Oddly enough, I had no problem shoving those questions aside since F/X2 clearly just wanted to capitalize on whatever success it found on its first go-round. Sometimes you just want to watch a movie about a movie special effects guy getting one over on government officials and the criminals at the same time. Did you like Rollie and Brian Dennehy’s cop character, but wanted them to spend more time together and pal around? F/X2 has tons of male buddy interaction. Do you like Rachel Ticotin? I do. Oh, she is in F/X2! Great! Did you like the nerdy computer expert at the NYPD, Marisa Velez, and her banter with Dennehy? F/X2 has that. I should hate F/X2, but when Rollie, his girlfriend and her kid hide in a supermarket from an assassin, and I see an inexplicable barrel of popcorn kernels not in any packaging and get excited because I know that Rollie is going to get up to his usual shenanigans, somewhere along the line, I happily signed a waiver regarding critiquing plausible plot points and decided to just enjoy F/X2 in all its ridiculous Rube Goldbergian glory. Somehow Hollywood got one over on me. F/X2 won’t change the world or even one life, but it is so ridiculous that it becomes fun again.

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