FX - Murder By Illusion [DVD]

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s witness protection program to use his special effects skills to fake the death of notorious mob boss Nicholas DeFranco ( Jerry Orbach). 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.

Hired by the Justice Department to fake the death of Mafia boss-turned-informant Nicholas DeFranco, Rollie pulls the job off without a hitch. Megginson, and starring Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, Diane Venora, Cliff De Young, and Angela Bassett in her film debut. Jump Scare: Rollie has a latex movie monster set up to leap at his door while a recording of the monster's roar is played, whenever somebody comes in. For the second, a sci-fi alien movie inspired by The Terminator featuring an alien cyborg Disguised in Drag is being filmed. 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.A film technician is hired by the US government to stage the fake assassination of a mobster turned informant.

Mason tries to bribe Rollie by giving him the key, proposing that they split the money, but Rollie refuses and puts his gun down. A preview screening in the San Fernando Valley produced some of the best statistics Orion Pictures had seen in some time. Faking the Dead: The professed intent of Rollie's first job is to do this for DeFranco being put into witness protection. Using an elaborate phone setup, Rollie lures Lipton out in the open and kidnaps him in his official car, taking him on a rough ride in the trunk to get Mason's address out of him. In his review for The Globe and Mail, Jay Scott wrote, " F/X is simply out to give a good time, which it does superbly".

The shoot ends in failure when the effects technician's explosion doesn't go off when it's supposed to. 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. Rollie retreats to his girlfriend Ellen's apartment, but she is killed the next morning by a sniper, whom Rollie kills in a fight. Special effects expert Rollie Tyler (Bryan Brown) is widely acknowledged as the best in the business. 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.

In the first movie, it's a crime thriller involving a mysterious trenchcoated man shooting up a fancy restaurant. In the second movie, he employs a remote-controlled clown lying in wait for anyone anticipating the monster!

It contains fights and shootouts and big chase scenes, but they're all firmly centered on who the characters are and what they mean to one another. 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. Movie special effects expert Roland "Rollie" Tyler is hired by the Department of Justice to stage the murder of Mafia informant Nicholas DeFranco. 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). Justified as the crew behind the film's effects were also responsible for the robotic effects in Short Circuit and Class of 1999, with a skull from the latter being seen among Rollie's belongings as an Easter Egg.