F/X is one of the few Movies from the 80's that I remember because of it's inventive premise.
It Stars Aussie Actor Bryan Brown (An actor who never really made it to the big-time) who plays Special FX Expert Rollie Tyler who works on various Low Budget Slashers and becomes well known to the Department of Justice which hires him to perform a fake assassination of a Gangster on the Witness protection Program (Law & Order's late Jerry Orbach)...But things very quickly become complicated as Tyler finds he's being double crossed by the very people who hired him (Mason Adams & Cliff De Young)
Co-Starring Brian Dennehy as the veteran cop Leo McCarthy who tries to find out who killed who and why.
It was a minor hit on it's original release back in '86 and was followed by a Sequel in '91 and a TV series from '96-'98.
***1/2 out of *****
It Stars Aussie Actor Bryan Brown (An actor who never really made it to the big-time) who plays Special FX Expert Rollie Tyler who works on various Low Budget Slashers and becomes well known to the Department of Justice which hires him to perform a fake assassination of a Gangster on the Witness protection Program (Law & Order's late Jerry Orbach)...But things very quickly become complicated as Tyler finds he's being double crossed by the very people who hired him (Mason Adams & Cliff De Young)
Co-Starring Brian Dennehy as the veteran cop Leo McCarthy who tries to find out who killed who and why.
It was a minor hit on it's original release back in '86 and was followed by a Sequel in '91 and a TV series from '96-'98.
***1/2 out of *****