There’s a nice moment when the image of the man is on a monitor, when suddenly the man himself looms out of the dark behind the screen, looking for Rollie. So he works on the tape he shot from a camera during the botched operation, trying to identify the second man in the flat. Rollie tries ringing old friend Leo, Brian Dennehy from the first film, but he’s just got an answering machine on. His boss on the sting is Philip Bosco, so based on the casting principle that you cast a villain actor to play a villain, I will not be surprised if he’s somehow behind this, and Mike was killed deliberately. And Mike gets killed during the operation. You can’t beat some fake boobs for a laugh.īut there’s something awry about the sting – Rollie thinks there were two people there, not just the killer.
FX DEADLY ART OF ILLUSION SERIAL
Ticotin’s ex husband Mike, and actual father of the boy (not Rollie as I said earlier) is a cop, and persuades Rollie to help him trap a serial killer. (Notice the Arabic subtitles, a clue this wasn’t recorded here).īack home, with girlfriend Rachel Ticotin, he gets her to try his new invention – a motion capture suit linked to a creepy clown doll. However, Rollie is watching the filming with his son, and when the robot appears to go out of control, he shuts it down. This much isn’t a surprise if you’re familiar with the first film, but there’s a nice fakeout when it’s revealed that the effects supervisor on this film isn’t star Bryan Brown as Rollie Tyler, but some other guy.
I’m not sure the health and safety on this set is very good.
FX DEADLY ART OF ILLUSION MOVIE
The film opens with a scene that looks like it belongs in a different movie – which it does, as they’re filming some science fiction film, obviously with lots of special effects (the F/X of the title in case you’d never heard that) and the scene ends with an explosion not going off at the right time. It’s the sequel to the moderately well received F/X Murder By Illusion. So first on this tape is FX 2: The Deadly Art of Illusion. Picture quality is awful, too – I don’t know if that’s bad Satellite reception. Star is obviously another News Corp company, so they are reusing graphics.
FX DEADLY ART OF ILLUSION TV
So the first recording is from a channel called Star Movies (Satellite Television Asian Region), and when you see the pre-movie ident, you might find it rather familiar if you had Satellite TV in the 90s. It’s been recorded off a satallite or cable service, probably in the Middle East, as I think this tape was given to me by a friend of my wife’s family, who lived and worked in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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.This is an unusual tape, because I think it wasn’t recorded by me. 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. Follow-on from the 1986 film 'FX - Murder by Illusion' in which Tyler (Bryan Brown) is now semi-retired.