F/X (1986)

Bryan Brown is a special effects expert who agrees to help a government agency in staging the fake assassin of a well-known gangster. When he’s double-crossed, he must use his skills to evade and trap gangsters and corrupt government agents alike. I remember when F/X 2 came out wondering about the original which I had never heard of and it has stayed on my radar since. Unfortunately there’s not a whole lot of special effects seen in the film other than a pretty twisty climax, it remains a decent action film with Brian Dennehy playing a good cop working the other side of Brown to also get to the bottom of the conspiracy.