French Connection 2
The movie follows Detective 'Popeye' Doyle (Gene Hackman) as he is still hot on the trail of slippery drug trafficker Charnier (Fernando Rey), who eluded him in New York.
August 28, 1933 in Dieppe, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France
12 May 1924, Aulnoy-lez-Valenciennes, Nord, France
24 November 1888, Cheshire, England, UK
January 10, 1923 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia [now Serbia]
December 31, 1943 in Choisy-le-Roi, Val-de-Marne, France
28 August 1940, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
1 October 1944, Grenoble, Isère, France
30 October 1938, Long Beach, Long Island, New York, USA
5 February 1916, Vienna, Austria-Hungary
20 September 1917, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
10 March 1914, Montrouge, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
August 11, 1946 in Plancher-les-Mines, Haute-Saône, France
6 March 1931, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
27 May 1931, Reims, Marne, France
30 December 1912, Paris, France
23 December 1921, Novi Pavljani, Croatia, Yugoslavia [now Croatia]
30 January 1930, San Bernardino, California, USA
November 12, 2004
John Frankenheimer's ("The Manchurian Candidate") version outshines William Friedkin's 1971 original.
September 26, 2004
A classic with a terrifid car chase
July 25, 2002
Couldn't even hold the original film's hat, but earns points just for not sucking outright.
February 22, 2009
More conventional than its predecessor, but it's still unconventional by the cop thriller standard set by a wash of anonymous, lesser films. [Blu-ray]
March 24, 2009
The last ten minutes are the best thing about it (that final shot is one of the best of the '70s), and it's no coincidence that in this ten minutes Frankenheimer returns to his technician passions.
February 23, 2009
If you take away comparisons with the original, it's a reasonably solid, if flawed, crime thriller; but it does shrink into the shadow cast by its vastly superior predecessor.
March 14, 2009
While it certainly is a couple of notches below its action classic original, French Connection II is still a darned good action film that maintains the core of its central character and has some added layers that are genuinely disturbing.
December 17, 2009
looks lost in space and time
July 02, 2007
Nearly as high powered and gritty as the first 'Connection.'
April 01, 2009
may wrap up the story the original began, but it just doesn't have the same magic
March 11, 2009
you can't help but feel a sense of disillusionment ... because 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 and the ultimately cycl
March 14, 2015
French Connection II, sequel or no, comes off as more of a felt work, and what I make contact with through it is a director.
