The movie follows Detective 'Popeye' Doyle (Gene Hackman) as he is still hot on the trail of slippery drug trafficker Charnier (Fernando Rey), who eluded him in New York.
may wrap up the story the original began, but it just doesn't have the same magic
Tolucan Times
September 26, 2004
A classic with a terrifid car chase
Apollo Guide
February 23, 2009
If you take away comparisons with the original, it's a reasonably solid, if flawed, crime thriller; but it does shrink into the shadow cast by its vastly superior predecessor.
you can't help but feel a sense of disillusionment ... because the finality of it is so harsh and so sudden that it draws your attention less to the idea of justice served than it does to the brute simplicity of violent retribution and the ultimately cycl
Nearly as high powered and gritty as the first 'Connection.'
Film Freak Central
March 24, 2009
The last ten minutes are the best thing about it (that final shot is one of the best of the '70s), and it's no coincidence that in this ten minutes Frankenheimer returns to his technician passions.
While it certainly is a couple of notches below its action classic original, French Connection II is still a darned good action film that maintains the core of its central character and has some added layers that are genuinely disturbing.
