The central character, Popeye Doyle, is again played by Gene Hackman and seems to be a man to root for, but there is really nothing to home but ignobility and biceps.

| Mar 6, 2024

Frankenheimer's directorial touches abound in this, his best picture in years.

| Sep 5, 2021

It is a free-standing picture, a striking and strongly entertaining work on its own terms, different in setting.

| Sep 5, 2021

Bound to be numbered among the best of the year.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 5, 2021

Riveting entertainment.

| Sep 5, 2021

After watching Gene Hackman curse and stomp his way around Marseilles, one can only say "vive la difference."

| Sep 5, 2021

Although it has some of the contrived air often found in sequels, it's a decent thriller with lots of action.

| Sep 5, 2021

Far superior to Friedkin's original, simply because Robert Dillon's script is much more critical in its probing of the Popeye Doyle character.

| Jan 26, 2006

[A] fairly stylish spinoff from Billy Friedkin's enormously successful 1971 original, "The French Connection."

| May 9, 2005

I kept wondering why French Connection II hadn't stayed on location in New York, where Popeye belonged, instead of going to Marseille, a place it's patently clear no sane superior would ever send him.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 23, 2004