THE DEADLY ART OF ILLUSION MOVIE
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But when his girlfriend's ex-husband (Tom Mason), a police detective, persuades him to devise an illusion to capture a serial killer, Rollie is once again lured into the lethal world of make-believe. Five years after his first deadly adventure, Rollie Tyler (Brown) has left the special effects business and now designs sophisticated toys for a living. Brian Brown and Brian Dennehy are back for an all-new action-thriller that continues the F/X saga with stylish wit, unrelenting suspense and amazing high-tech action. When the latter is murdered, Tyler investigates with the help of his old police partner (Brian Dennehy) and soon they are trapped in a dangerous web of murder, treachery and deceit. However, his girlfriend s ex-husband talks him out of the quiet life after five years and into taking part in a police-sting operation. but only if he can stay alive!įollow-on from the 1986 film 'FX - Murder by Illusion' in which Tyler (Bryan Brown) is now semi-retired. And soon, he finds himself trapped in a murderous maze of deceit and treachery in which he must depend on his ingenious tricks - and his friendship with detective Leo McCarthy (Dennehy) - to expose a terrifying underworld conspiracy.

THE DEADLY ART OF ILLUSION MOVIE

Or, as a private eye in a 1940s movie might have said, too clever.Follow-on from the 1986 film 'FX - Murder by Illusion' in which Tyler (Bryan Brown) is now semi-retired. Faced with an armed madman who wants to kill him, Brown uses resourcefulness, such as combining a display of baked beans and an aerosol can into a device that heats the cans of beans until they explode in the killer's face. Brown and the bad guy are trapped inside along with Brown's girlfriend ( Rachel Ticotin) and her child. It wants to demonstrate wall-to-wall special effects, visual gags, scientific resourcefulness, and the ways that a supermarket can be turned into a minefield. The problem with 'FX 2,' I think, is that the movie has a more important agenda than telling a story. Sometimes a Hey, Waitaminut movie can be fun, and sometimes this one is, but they can be frustrating, too. was Bluey the Clown? I call movies like this 'Hey, Waitaminut!' movies, because all during the film I'm repeating, 'Hey! Wait a minute!' as the plot twists and turns in illogical and incomprehensible developments. It's a clever scene, but ask yourself this question: If you were getting into a helicopter, especially with a fortune in loot under your arm, would you look to see who was piloting the helicopter? Or would you get in blindly, and wait until after takeoff to notice that the pilot. Below the helicopter, in a boat, wearing the suit, Brown twists and gyrates so that the clown turns the helicopter trip into an insanely terrifying ride. That suit leads to the movie's single most incredible scene, in which a villain is trying to escape in a helicopter, and the helicopter pilot turns out to be, not a human being, but a robot. He has retired from his original profession to devote time to his more advanced projects, including an invention of truly Tom Swiftian proportions: A suit you put on that registers all of your body movements and then duplicates them exactly with a robot. It stars, once again, the dependable and laconic Australian actor Bryan Brown, as a special effects genius ('F/X' is movie shorthand for 'effects'). In 'FX 2,' all of the crucial plot developments have already escaped before the movie even begins. Home video is a medium that invites distractions, and 'F/X' was the kind of film where you could casually glance at the screen, see something utterly amazing, and then look away again, secure in the knowledge that no crucial plot developments would escape you.

The deadly art of illusion