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. Special effects man Rollie Tyler (Bryan Brown), is recruited to help stage the fake death of a mafia don who wants to rat on his organised crime pals, and then finds himself pursued by hoods and cops, and having to rely on his movie magic skills to defend himself. Danish ( Subtitles ), Finnish ( Subtitles ), Norwegian ( Subtitles ), Swedish ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1. 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.

The site's consensus states; "Smart, twisty, and perfectly cast, the effects-assisted neo-noir F/X reminds viewers that a well-told story is the most special effect of all.

Principal photography began in the spring of 1985 in New York City, with additional filming taking place in nearby Orange, New Jersey and Rye, New York. In the second movie, he employs a remote-controlled clown lying in wait for anyone anticipating the monster! The shoot ends in failure when the effects technician's explosion doesn't go off when it's supposed to. With his sly eyes and little can opener of a nose, his shoulders a yard wide, his hair massing in gray curls behind his ears, he dances through the movie like a mastodon in toe shoes. DeFranco wears Rollie's rig to an Italian restaurant and the public "assassination" goes flawlessly.

Mason picks up the gun and demands the key back, but Rollie reveals the gun is empty and has Krazy Glue on its grip, before shoving Mason out of the mansion toward the police, who misinterpret his actions as a threat and fatally shoot him. However, when the Mafioso kingpin goes missing for real, it is the SFX man who is collared for his murder.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.

Always a Bigger Fish: The plot of the sequel kicks in when a third party kills both the ex-husband of Rollie's girlfriend and the killer he was going to catch at the same time during a sting operation.

The world of movie make-believe meets the gritty New York crime scene in this taut and clever suspense movie. Bringing the near impossible to life took skill and imagination, now with CGI anything is possible, so some of the reality has been lost.

Rollie rigs a gun with blanks and gives DeFranco a rig with radio transmitters and fake blood packs to simulate bullet hits. For the second, a sci-fi alien movie inspired by The Terminator featuring an alien cyborg Disguised in Drag is being filmed. A film technician is hired by the US government to stage the fake assassination of a mobster turned informant.In the struggle for Lipton's gun, the driver is killed and the car crashes, allowing Rollie to escape. Lighter and Softer: The PG-13 sequel is this to the R-rated original film, due to less profanity, gore and violence. Mason tries to bribe Rollie by giving him the key, proposing that they split the money, but Rollie refuses and puts his gun down. 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. 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.