French Connection 2

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It's a good sequel in that it's well-made and Hackman gives a very good performance. It's a bad sequel in that (spoilers for the first movie)

[Show spoiler]it's a sequel that takes a true story with a dark open ending where the bad guy escapes back to France, and allows the hero to fly over there and catch him.

Funny tidbit: When I interviewed Friedkin I knew about his love for Frankenheimer, so I asked him about this, and he said he refused to see it, and even wrote Frankenheimer an 8-page letter begging him not to make it.