the audience applauded

Thanks for the memories!

Simply A Masterpiece

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

I first saw this movie on TV in 2009, seventeen years after it came out and the very year it ended up being set in. Like many others, I ended up feeling it was better than average due to many factors. Yes, the idea of snatching people from the past the moment before they die was covered in "Millenium," but it was done on an individual basis for a different reason, here. The actors were great, particularly Mick Jagger as the relentless bounty hunter. The one thing that really got me was the scene where Emilio Estevez, from 1991, first views the 2009 Manhattan skyline. The scene pans from the Empire State Building south to the Battery and we see that the Twin Towers have been replaced by a single taller building (the top of which ends up as the scene of the film's climax). Has anyone asked how that scene was thought up in 1992? The first bomb attack in the parking garage of the World Trade Center was in 1993, and was intended to bring down both towers by knocking one into the other. This prophetic film moment lifts "Freejack" into the "must watch" category!

Freejack is one of the BEST SciFi movies of this decade. The others are as follows... Dark City-1998, The Matrix-1999, Twelve Monkeys-1995, The Fifth Element-1997, eXistenZ-1999. There are others I like however, Men In Black is not really a SciFi movie (on and on). But for any list not to include Freejack is dreadfully mistaken!!Everyone in this movie does a nice job INCLUDING Mick Jagger!! The story is the mainstay and gridiron of this movie. It doesn't need special effects (or dumb CARTOON -computer generated people like avatar). The story is a wonderful depiction of how rich people in the future will buy immortality. I highly recommend this move for anyone but especially for SciFi aficionados!!!

Nothing very imaginative here. The SFX are serviceable, but badly dated. The story is not too bad, though the script is very clunky. The actors have virtually nothing to work with, though I'm not sure that any of them (perhaps with the exception of Hopkins) could have made anything of a better script. Estevez alternates acting like a madman and an idiot...a typical example of an irritating lead character who both survives and gets the girl for no apparent reason.But do you know what sticks in my mind? (If you don't have an idea of the plot, better check elsewhere or you won't understand this.) Estevez's character is pulled to the future, apparently using a process that is uncommon and is very expensive and complex, and then he escapes. Astonishingly, there is not only a term for such a person ("freejack") but it is in common use by everyone. I mean, does this happen all the time? "What, ANOTHER freejack wandering around? What is the neighborhood coming to?" Watch the movie and see if you don't feel the same way. Just weird.OK for SF fans, but don't expect too much.

This is a great film for film's sake and the fact that it is a good take your-girl-to-the-movies film but falls short of being as epic or as special as something like Bladerunner, which is still played in the theaters today, alas, therefore you'll be watching this with your girl at home and not in the theaters.The movie generally keeps you stimulated from the beginning through the rest of the film and you get interesting glimpses at what 2009 is perceived to be like. I wonder if the makers of Freejack knew that 2009 isn't as crazy as they thought it would be.Still the concepts in this movie are fresh and sci-fi, down to traveling back in time, replacing your about-to-be-killed corpse with a clone with the intention of kicking your supposed-to-be-dead soul out of your body and replacing it with a high paying client's well-to-do spirit, among other things! I give this movie a 7 because I would normally give a movie like this a 5 or 6 but they get an extra point for the increase in entertainment value by virtue of the neat sci-fi.Warning: Mick Jagger is in this movie. :p