FX - Murder By Illusion [DVD]

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Vincent Canby praised the look of the film in his review for The New York Times, writing, "the movie, which looks as if it had been made on an A-picture budget, has a lot of the zest one associates with special-effects-filled B-pictures". They did not want to hire an action director, [3] but instead wanted a director who would bring a realistic touch to the film and make the audience care about the main character having been impressed with Mandel's direction of actors in Independence Day. DeFranco wears Rollie's rig to an Italian restaurant and the public "assassination" goes flawlessly. He contacts Mason, who is shocked by Lipton's actions and instructs him to wait for other agents to take him to a safe location; however, another man thought to be Rollie is killed by the agents, proving that Mason is trying to kill him too. 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.

Danish ( Subtitles ), Finnish ( Subtitles ), Norwegian ( Subtitles ), Swedish ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1. it works a little too well, as the killer and the person used as bait are both taken out at the same time by a third party.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. It stands out with a slick basic idea developed to a proper script that offers twists and surprises all the way to the end, but luckily not as much as "Mission: Impossible" did.

It turns out to be a double bluff where Rollie is framed for the death of DeFranco, but he was indeed only Faking The Dead.

Enhance Button: Makes an appearance in the second film to spot the killer in the reflection of a mirror. Practical Effects: The point of both films, with Rollie himself being an effects technician using his skills to help solve crimes. For the second, a sci-fi alien movie inspired by The Terminator featuring an alien cyborg Disguised in Drag is being filmed.