F / X - Deadly Tricks
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| German title | F / X - Deadly Tricks |
| Original title | F / X |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1986 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Robert Mandel |
| script |
Gregory Fleeman , Robert T. Megginson |
| production | Michael Peyser |
| music | Bill Conti |
| camera | Miroslav Ondříček |
| cut | Terry Rawlings |
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F / X - Deadly Tricks (Original title: F / X ) is an American thriller from 1986 . The director was Robert Mandel , the screenwriter wrote Gregory Fleeman and Robert T. Megginson . Bryan Brown and Brian Dennehy played the leading roles .
action
Born in Australia, Rollie Tyler works for the film industry in New York , where he is an expert on special effects (F / X). In this role, the producer Jim Leitner approaches him for a job. In Tyler's apartment, Leitner reveals himself to be a lawyer named Martin Lipton , who asks Tyler to help. The mafia boss DeFranco , who has been involved in criminal business for 40 years, has changed sides and wants to testify against his syndicate . In order to prevent possible attacks, DeFranco is supposed to die in appearance and get a new identity. Tyler is supposed to do the fictitious murder. After consulting with Lipton and his boss Mason, he finally agrees. The film-ready murder takes place in a restaurant, Tyler plays the perpetrator himself and escapes from the restaurant to the back seat of a waiting car of the Ministry of Justice, which drives off immediately. The plan seems to have worked, Tyler asks Lipton why there is foil in the back seat, Lipton turns from the passenger seat with a gun and says there should be no evidence. Tylor is able to swing the pistol aside, a shot hits the driver in the head, the car crashes, Tyler escapes and calls Mason from a phone booth. Mason gets their location and tells Tyler to stay there. Because another man wants to make a phone call, Tyler waits in a doorway. The other man is shot dead by the police a little later - Tyler now recognizes the plot and suspects that Lipton has exchanged the blank cartridges in the gun for the apparent murder for real ones.
Hunted as a murderer, Tyler goes into hiding with his girlfriend, actress Ellen . The next morning, Ellen is shot standing by the window. Tyler is able to kill the sniper, who is a police officer in the Ministry of Justice, with an iron and flee - supported by his colleague Andy , who supplies him with his FX equipment.
At the same time, the police officer Leo McCarthy , who was able to arrest DeFranco, is no longer investigating his murder. McCarthy then investigates on his own and gets Tyler on the track - not only with regard to his relation to the whole crime, but also various discrepancies in the murder case.
Through their different investigation methods - Tyler through his special effects and masquerades, McCarthy through the police information system - both arrive at the same solution: DeFranco lives and is in cahoots with Mason and Lipton. The judicial officers are corrupt and want to move abroad with the Mafioso and his syndicated millions.
While McCarthy is suspended for his investigative methods, Tyler arrives at Mason's secret home, where the bad guys are hiding. Using his special effects equipment, Tyler manages to kill the gangsters. DeFranco, wearing a pacemaker, dies of a heart attack after an electric shock prepared by Tyler. The only remaining Mason offers Tyler to share the 15 million with him, which only he or the Mafioso can withdraw personally from a Geneva bank. But Tyler prepares an MP without cartridges with super glue and apparently lays it carelessly on a chest of drawers. Mason does not recognize the trap, takes action and is pushed outside by Tyler, where he cannot comply with the police's request to drop the gun and dies in the hail of bullets. Tyler sticks artificial skin on his wrists and neck, lies down on the floor and is pronounced dead without a pulse. McCarthy, who also came to Mason's house on his own initiative, meets the supposedly dead Tyler while he is fleeing the morgue and joins forces with him.
Together they set off for Switzerland , where Tyler - wearing a DeFranco face mask - withdraws the millions.
Reviews
"Exciting, well-photographed thriller that draws its charm from the ambiguous effect of familiar cinematic means, but neglects the logic of action and character drawing in favor of the trick effects."
“Original thriller that shows how amazing illusions can be created without a computer. Conclusion: exciting and full of surprising shots. "
“ With this mixture of thriller and film-in-film, Robert Mandel (' Murderous Exchange ') shot an extremely entertaining work that also throws a funny look behind the scenes of filmmaking and thus conveys something to the audience about the creation and functioning of cinematic images . "
Awards
The film was nominated in 1987 in the category "Best Picture" for the Edgar Allan Poe Award .
background
- "F / X" was shot on locations around New York City and in England .
- The title song of the film is "Just an Illusion" by Imagination . The song can be heard during the credits.
- In 1991 a sequel was made with the title F / X 2 - The Deadly Illusion . Directed by Richard Franklin and again starring Bryan Brown and Brian Dennehy.
- The 40-part action series F / X followed in 1996.
Web links
- F / X - Murder by Illusion in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ F / X - Deadly Tricks. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 9, 2017 .
- ↑ F / X - Deadly Tricks at cinema.de
- ↑ F / X - Deadly Tricks. In: prisma.de. prisma-Verlag , accessed on September 9, 2017 .