French Connection II

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.

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.

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.

İlk filmin gölgesinde kalıyor. Çok farklı bir devam filmi.

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

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.

Can't recommend this film despite the pleasure of watching Gene Hackman.

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.

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.

Authentic and grounded. Insane performance by Gene Hackman, and a chilling finale.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

One of the best sequels ever made!

"...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.

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.

Very good.