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FX - Murder By Illusion [DVD]

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In his review for The Globe and Mail, Jay Scott wrote, " F/X is simply out to give a good time, which it does superbly". Stuff Blowing Up: The opening prologue of the sequel starts off with a cop car failing to blow up on cue, only for the effects team to do so just after the director chews them out. He and Brian Dennehy make a great pair, although they don't appear together until the end of the film. MacGyvering: Rollie uses his special effects wizardry to survive a number of scrapes throughout the films. Celebrity Paradox: The Rambo films exists in the film's universe, evidenced by the poster for the second film in Rollie's apartment.

F/X (also known as or subtitled Murder by Illusion) is a 1986 American action thriller film directed by Robert Mandel, written by Gregory Fleeman and Robert T.Master of Disguise: Rollie makes full use of his makeup skills to appear as different people, or to disguise other people as part of his plans. DeFranco wears Rollie's rig to an Italian restaurant and the public "assassination" goes flawlessly. Rollie more effectively uses this against his would-be assailant by jerry-rigging some hair spray and canned beans at a supermarket. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

A movie special effects man is hired to fake a real-life mob killing for a witness protection plan, but finds his own life in danger. It stands out with a slick basic idea developed to a proper script that offers twists and surprises all the way to the end, but luckily not as much as "Mission: Impossible" did. Staged Shooting: What Rollie is hired for in the first movie, based on the success of one he helped execute for a movie. It turns out to be a double bluff where Rollie is framed for the death of DeFranco, but he was indeed only Faking The Dead.

DeFranco is set to testify against his former Mafia bosses and go into witness protection, but the DoJ is afraid he will be killed before the trial. The shoot ends in failure when the effects technician's explosion doesn't go off when it's supposed to.

Brian Dennehy, Diane Venora, Cliff De Young, Mason Adams, Jerry Orbach, Martha Gehman, and Joe Grifasi).Jump Scare: Rollie has a latex movie monster set up to leap at his door while a recording of the monster's roar is played, whenever somebody comes in.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. and Doug Drexler); Eric Allard and his team at All Effects for the sequel, with Allard also serving as one of the Second Unit directors doing the actual effects. These include a robot head from Class of 1999 and a toy robot from a pre- Energizer Bunny Energizer commercial.Hired by the Justice Department to fake the death of Mafia boss-turned-informant Nicholas DeFranco, Rollie pulls the job off without a hitch.

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