FX - Murder By Illusion [DVD]

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Automobile Opening: used in the sequel as part of the Fake Action Prologue, with the camera following the car driven by the alien cyborg through the city before crashing it near a wino. In his review for The Sunday Times, George Perry praised the film's premise as a "nice idea, but the effects themselves are merely ingenious when they might have been spectacular". Chekhov's Armory: Any and all special effects equipment that is shown at one point in either movie will come in to play by the end for more than Rollie's work. Also the case in a meta sense, with both films having notable, experienced effects technicians note Conrad 'Connie' Brink and James Bond vet John Steers for the first (with makeup effects by the uncredited duo of John Caglione Jr.

Megginson, and starring Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, Diane Venora, Cliff De Young, and Angela Bassett in her film debut.

s witness protection program to use his special effects skills to fake the death of notorious mob boss Nicholas DeFranco ( Jerry Orbach). Where F/X floats above the crowd are in its performances; in the perfection of Miroslav Ondricek's photography, Mel Bourne's production design, John Stears' effects and Terry Rawlings' crisp, succinct editing; in the virtually unpredictable twists and turns of its plot, and in the sheer joy of watching a hero use his skill and his wits to solve a problem. Set a Mook to Kill a Mook: In the climax of the first movie, Rollie deals with Mason's mooks by using special effects tricks to make them kill each other while trying to kill him (for instance, by making a reflection of himself appear to a mook who shoots at it and kills another mook who was standing behind it). Celebrity Paradox: The Rambo films exists in the film's universe, evidenced by the poster for the second film in Rollie's apartment.

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. These include a robot head from Class of 1999 and a toy robot from a pre- Energizer Bunny Energizer commercial. Rollie more effectively uses this against his would-be assailant by jerry-rigging some hair spray and canned beans at a supermarket. The movie was followed up in 1991 with F/X 2: The Deadly Art of Illusion, in which Rollie, now retired from special effects, is asked by his girlfriend's ex-husband to help him catch a killer. Initially he was not impressed with the film's screenplay, which he felt was not well-crafted but felt that it provided for "a lot of action and a lot of things I did not have under my belt".To pull off the film's special effects, the producers hired John Stears, who had worked on the first eight James Bond films and shared a special effects Academy Award for Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. 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. 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. 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. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.