New York narcotics detective Popeye Doyle follows the trail of the French connection smuggling ring to France where he teams up with the gendarmes to hunt down the ringleader.... (Full plot summary below)
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New York narcotics detective Popeye Doyle follows the trail of the French connection smuggling ring to France where he teams up with the gendarmes to hunt down the ringleader.
Leave your thoughts about French Connection II.
| Entertainment WeeklySteve SimelsFrench Connection II is not exactly a fun flick (there’s a harrowing sequence where the bad guys shoot Hackman full of heroin, for example), but in its own twisted way it’s something of an art film — perhaps the most profoundly absurdist and pessimistic detective film ever made. |
| The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe concerns of French Connection II are not much different from those of old Saturday-afternoon movie serials that used to place their supermen in jeopardy and then figure ways of getting them out. The difference is in the quality of the supermen and in their predicaments. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe plot, the pursuit, the quarry, are all forgotten during Hackman's one-man show, and it's a flaw the movie doesn't overcome. |
| IGNR. L. ShafferDirector Frankenheimer does his best to keep the film moving, and he succeeds admirably in the final act, but the 90 minutes of dreck that precede the finale are of little interest, perhaps even tainting one's enjoyment of the first film, which is something no sequel should ever do. |
| NewsweekPaul D. ZimmermanA slick reprise of all the elements that clicked in the original with none of the seedy originality that made it work. |
| User ReviewSteven1981Director John Frankenheimer brings us FRENCH CONNECTION II which was made in 1975 and is an action, crime type of thriller drama.. Gene Hackman returns as Popeye Doyle in this sequel to William Friedkin's original 1971 film called The French Connection..... FRENCH CONNECTION II see's the absence of Roy Scheider from the original and played Gene Hackman's partner but Fernando Rey returns in French Connection II as villain Charnier... Popeye Doyle (Hackman) is in France working with French police to find Charnier (Fernando Rey) who deals in drugs but one night after being spotted by Charnier is kidnapped and taken to a isolated hotel where Popeye Doyle is pumped full of drugs by Charnier and his criminal goons then eventually thrown out of a car on the streets and left for dead and full of drugs in his system. The French police save his life with probably the aid of a doctor but can't remember then Popeye Doyle (Hackman) burns the hotel he was drugged up in down and takes revenge on the drug criminals and gives villain Charnier (Fernando Rey) an on foot chase through the streets and eventually killing him as he catches up with a boat that's escorting Charnier. Full of bad language, explosive violence, chases, shootouts and excellent action scenes and a great performance from Gene Hackman I'd say personally this is the best sequel ever made in film history and better, more violent and more entertaining and enjoyable than the original French Connection film. What French Connection II does is take the original and make it more enjoyable and builds on it and makes a sequel of greater violence though more gloomier than the original I think French Connection II also seems a bit darker with the feel of a stronger threat looming on Doyle's (Hackman) character with more violence to the story. |
| User ReviewBroyaxSuite du premier qui se déroule ici intégralement à Marseille, plaque tournante du trafic de drogue de l'époque... et c'est encore le cas de nos jours mais en pire ! en tout cas, l'excellent Gene Hackman reprend du service et traque le vilain trafiquant en la personne de... Fernando Rey ! Il peut compter (ou pas) sur la coopération des policiers français et notamment du non moins excellent Bernard Fresson qui accueille le cow-boy comme il se doit, c'est-à-dire sans égards... (France-Amérique : je t'aime moi non plus). L'amerloque est toujours affublé de son galurin et de sa chemise hawaïenne (sic) et toujours prompt à la détente, brusque et rentre-dedans (le choc des cultures et son lot de clichés). Hélas, le film compte pas mal de lenteurs et s'avère nettement moins intéressant que le premier : le scénario lambine sévèrement comme s'il avait trop pris de produits stupéfiants. Il se rattrape néanmoins vers la fin et bénéficie de la mise en scène assez alerte de John Frankenheimer. Mais tout cela est un peu juste quand même. |
