I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Some things I liked some I did not.

I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Re-viewing this after its first run in 2000, due to the new (2016) network version, I am even more impressed. After too many sloppy-script films of late, too many gimmicky and overdone-effects film, Frequency comes back as a tight and very involving film. Dennis Quaid is a brave NYC firefighter who has been killed rescuing a runaway girl from a burning warehouse, while the Amazing Mets stun everyone with a World Series victory in October 1969. Jim Caviezel (The Thin Red Line, Person of Interest) plays his son, now a cop thirty years later. Somehow linked to the Aurora Borealis in both time frames, the two make contact with each other across years by Dad's ham radio. The son is able to prevent his father's death, but changing the past also has other consequences which continue to get more complex. Family dedication with many twists! All of the major actors do a stellar job, and the tension is powerful but not pushy. See this one...

I love this movie very much. When I searched the movie which is recommended to people who like fantasy genre, I found this movie. I had longed to watch it for a long time, and finally I can watch it. I understand the reason why this movie get a high evaluation from many people. This is not just fantasy movie. Its genre is changed in the movie. we recognize it's a heartfelt fantasy movie including human drama elements at the first time, but from the middle of the movie, mysterious elements appear, and after that, suspenseful elements are added to that, and finally all those genre are mixed and movie ends happily. The son connects his dead father who is living in the past time and they try to change the past. In that scene most of viewers may cannot help crying and that scene makes our hearts so moved. But mysterious and suspenseful elements increase gradually, and we become excited so much. I like the ending of it because every character become happy. Some people might say there is no reality, but all of things which are happened in the story make the ending together. So I think the ending of this movie is excellent.

It's 1969 and a serial killer is loose. Frank Sullivan (Dennis Quaid) is a risk-taking firefighter. He's happily married to Jules (Elizabeth Mitchell) with a son John. In 1999, John Sullivan (Jim Caviezel) is a hard-drinking cop and his girlfriend leaves him. His best friend is still Gordo (Noah Emmerich). They find his dad's Ham radio. When he starts it up, the strange atmospheric conditions connect the son to the father 30 years apart. John warns his father of his impending death and saves him. However it sets off changes that includes the murder of his mother along with more nurses by the serial killer Nightingale. John uses his police files to guide his father to track down the killer.It's a terrific premise. There is a change in the middle with the introduction of the serial killer story. It probably needs to get there a little sooner to change gear. The thriller is actually quite compelling despite splitting the time and the two main actors. It's able to connect the two sides very effectively. Both Quaid and Caviezel are able to keep the tension high.

This is a good example of a "time travel" science fiction movie, in a genre where there are many examples and most of them break at least one concrete law of time travel that leaves anyone with even a little common sense and intelligence scratching their heads and wondering "how does that work?"Of course you still have to suspend your disbelief but as far as this sub-genre goes Frequency was a surprisingly good, and I would even go so far as to say it is a great example, of these time travel themed movies.The acting is great. The star is recognizable of course and this is one of his best roles to date, but the cast around him is also very good in their roles.Highly recommended if you like science fiction.