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(1 - 5) of 5 OFCS Rating: 80% Fresh Page   1   3/5 "may wrap up the story the original began, but it just doesn't have the same magic"   Filmcritic.com   Christopher Null B+ "John Frankenheimer's ("The Manchurian Candidate") version outshines William Friedkin's 1971 original."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 3/4 "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"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick "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."   Movie Views   Ryan Cracknell 2.5/4 "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."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw  (1 - 5) of 5 OFCS Rating: 80% Fresh Page   1