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Freejack

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I saw this originally at the movies, picked up the laser disk years ago, and now the DVD. It's one of my favorite campy Sci-Fi flicks. Big name actors in second rate rolls, pretty good special effects, a decent plot. Mick Jagger as a merc with plenty of gadgets and bizarre vehicles is a good opponent to "freejacked" race car driver Emilio Estevez. Estevez is grabbed through time at the moment of death (a freak race accident) - in a practice called FreeJacking. The result is supposed to be a flatlined brain with a healthy body. The wealthy few that can afford this service can then download their own consciousness into the new, young, healthy body. Immortality of a sort. Well, Estevez is not braindead (not in the movie anyway), and winds up as the prize in a power struggle between the two most powerful people on the planet - the #1 and #2 execs at the company that runs the whole FreeJack biz. A fun ride and worth the bucks.

i saw this film at the theaters and though it was ok. not great but a nice little sci-fi action movie and the added actraction of mick jagger in it. well years later the place i work was one of the concert dates the stones played, so i got the work the show for free and meet the band. well mick asked the workers after the band thanked us for our hard work if any of us had seen any of his movies and a few of us raised our hands, so he asked if we had seen "freejack" to witch i raised my hand alone. he asked if i saw it at the movies witch i said i did. he then took a $5.00 dollar bill signed it and gave it to me with a sorry for my having wasted my money . he said it read great and they had a great time making it but somewhere it got "F__kup"! i own this movie and it's ok but the $5.00 and the sigiing of it makes this film a little more special to me so enjoy even if mick doesn't!!

Somehow, it's possible to put Emilio Estevez, Rene Russo, and Anthony Hopkins together in a movie, and get a mediocre result. I didn't know it could be done.

Estevez (as Alex) and Russo (as Julie) are madly in love. She gives him a kiss for luck and he's off in the Formula 1 racer. Next, the car goes airborne, explodes in a ball of flame, and Alex is --

A "freejack," an escaped body, a piece of property. The time travel thingie yanked him out of the car at the last instant, into the future, where his strong young body was harvested to house some aging, sick rich guy (Hopkins). Problem is that Alex isn't through with that body yet. The rest of the movie is a gun battle/chase scene (he's a race driver, remember?) with Mick Jagger as the bounty hunter. Jagger does a fair job of sneering, and it's probably good that he was called on for little else.

Effects are minimal. There are lots of cars and armored vehicles running around, put together with colorful but cheesy effect. There are a few humorous moments, like the nun or the recipe for river rat. There's a happy ending. That's enough to make it passable amusement. If that's all you wanted, it may meet your needs.

//wiredweird

It looks great, it's fast-paced, it has good actors, but it's a turkey.
What went wrong?

Firstly, one of those actors - Rene Russo - doesn't have her heart in it. And since she's the love interest, that kills the love story. There's been plenty of negative comment about Mick Jagger in this, but he's fine. It seems most people just can't get their heads around such a famous rock star being an actor.

The major problem is the script, which probably had merit when written, but ended up after the rewrites making very little sense. You can watch this movie and enjoy the ride, but at the end you just ask yourself, "What the hell was that?".

None of it makes much sense. Every scene has been designed as a photo opportunity to make the film's technicians look good on show reels - and they do. But the price paid is to alienate the audience from any identification or lasting enjoyment.

Ultimately,the producers Hollywoodie-ed this one.

Few things Regarding "Freejack" (June 1, 2004) DVD Release:

- It is NOT "Letterbox" as described on the back of the case. It is in fact WS enhanced Anamorphic transfer with a 2.35:1 or 2.40:1 ratio. The transfer quality is excellent !!

- Special Features are lacking, some Cast Bio's in Menu form and a Trailer of "FreeJack". The Trailer is Pan/Scan 1.33:1.

- Audio is either 5.1 English or 5.1 French, NO commentary tracks. Subtitles are English, Spanish, and French

DW

This film was lambasted by the critics,but I urge you to watch it for yourselves!Jagger shines as Victor Vacendak,he is the highlight of the entire film!Estevez gives a good performace, as does Ruso.The plot is second to none,the effects are good and the chase sequence has to be watched,simply excellent!If you're looking for a sci-fi action film with some humour and even more Jagger,this is the one for you!

Emilio Estives is a race car driver. In fact, he's a great race car driver with a beautiful girlfiend (Renee Russo) and a typical slimeball manager who would sell the guy's shoelaces, if he could make a profit. On the day of The Big Race, Emilio flies down the track then up into a billboard! The crash is stupendous and they can't even find a pinky finger after the flames and dust settle.

Meanwhile, back in the future, good old Mick "the lips" Jagger is preparing to snatch Emilio from the past - milliseconds before the fatal crash. Why? you want to know? Wellllllll, it seeams that man has succeeded in two major areas - he has totally poluted the world to the point that most people are deseased and he has created the Cosmic Switchboard where a person's "being" can be transferred to another host body, thereby creating virtual immortallity. The plot thickens! But, it's still your basic love triangle with a bit of power playing and sneacky backstabbing. Bad guys turn out to be good guys, good guys end up being barbequed because they're really bad guys, and the hero gets the girl, the money, and the power!

This is a science fiction film with a novel approach, suspense, and plot twists. Someone in the future hired people to hijack Alex, a handsome, healthy, much loved racetrack driver and haul him eighteen years into the future. The plan is to simulate his death, rescue him without anyone noticing, and bring him to the future unconscious. Matters go wrong; Alex wakes up in the future conscious, and escapes. He has no idea what happened to him and where he is. He looks around and finds that he is in his city after a cataclysmic revolution, people look sick, and move about with guns. They have been affected by the carbon dioxide and other dangerous chemicals in the air. The film is filled with chases and crashes in futuristic vehicles and pursuits by foot with the firing of futuristic guns.

Alex and his girl friend had been very happy together. When he realizes that he is in the future, he looks for her. He discovers that he was brought to the future by an unknown official of a company. She is an executive of the company. She meets him and has mixed feelings. She is wrestling with the idea that she had thought he was dead for eighteen years, she now has a high-level job, and she is now eighteen years older, while he is the same age he was eighteen years ago.

Who is behind the plot to haul Alex into the future? Why did he or she do it? What will happen to this person? Why of all people from the past was Alex chosen to be high jacked? How can Alex relate to his girl friend who is now eighteen years older, and can she relate to him? Does love endure such time travel? Can Alex get back to his own time? Will he leave his girl friend behind? If he does what happens to her?

I like this movie because it brought so many things I like to the table. The stars: Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, Rene Russo, Anthony Hopkins. The action: F1 racing, futuristic cars & chases, space guns & gear. The romance between Emilio & Rene. The psychedelic images at the end, etc. Definitely worth watching.

I liked this movie. I am biased. I like any movie with Anthony Hopkins in it, but this one was fast paced, lots of superb special effects, and had a good plot. A racing car driver dies in a fiery car crash and is propelled into the future by a man who wishes to purchase his body, a common practice in this future world. He (the racing car driver) is called a FreeJack, and everyone is on the hunt when he escapes the brain/mind transfer and runs for his life to find the one girl who he knows will save (and believe) him. Anthony Hopkins plays a small role, it is he who wants the body, but he plays it excellently. Emilio Estevez and Mick Jagger are fabulous as virtual enemies playing spy vs. spy. There is surprise after surprise in this movie, and just a hint of mind games.