Freejack | | Cast : | Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, Rene Russo, Anthony Hopkins | | Director : | Geoff Murphy | | Studio : | Warner Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | January 17, 1992 | | DVD Released Date : | June 01, 2004 | | Language : | Unknown (Dubbed), English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 20, 2005 | | Summary | Is Renee Russo supposed to be Emilo's mother? | Content
 | Because she sure looks like it. Emilo didn't get the good looks of his brother Charlie Sheen, or the talent. But he's cute in a little boy way. I thought Mick Jagger was pretty good in his role, he underplayed his part and it worked for me. The vehicles look cheesey now but the premise of the story was new. Anthony Hopkins is brilliant as always but his part was very small. If you can over look some of the cheezieness it wasen't a bad movie. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 28, 2003 | | Summary | "I'm ready for that hit between the eyes...." | Content
| Alex Furlong (Emilio Estevez) is a race car driver with a beautiful girlfriend (Rene Russo), a good manager (David Johansen), and an up-and-coming career. However, as in most movies,fate moves its huge hands, as Alex is seemingly killed in a crash. End of story? Nope. You see, several tenths of a second before impact, Alex was snatched from the driver's seat and brought to the year 2009 to be used as a new body for a rich guy.
The medical van transporting him is attacked, and Alex escapes. On the run now, Alex must find his girlfriend, now working for a huge corporation, and evade a relentless bonejacker (Mick Jagger) who can collect $7 million by bringing him in....Emilio Estevez, Rene Russo, and Anthony Hopkins (as Russo's boss) turn in great performances, and Jagger (in his acting debut) gives a sinister performance as Vacendak, the bonejacker assigned to bring in Alex. The movie is presented in crisp, clear widescreen, with nicely done Dolby Digital 5.1 audio. The extras are sorelym lacking, with the movie's trailer, trailers for other Morgan Creek movies, and a plug for the Morgan Creek website. Two words for this so-called turkey: SPECIAL EDITION! FREEJACK
(1992, R) Alex Furlong: Emilio Estevez
Victor Vacendak: Mick Jagger
Julie Redlund: Rene Russo
McCandless: Anthony Hopkins
Mark Michelette: Johnathan Banks
Brad Carter: David Johansen Director: Geoff Murphy
Writers: Robert Sheckley (Novel "Immortality, Inc.), Stephen Pressfield (story and screenplay), Ronald Shushett (story and screenplay), Dan Gilroy (screenplay) MOVIE: 5
VIDEO: 5
AUDIO: 5
EXTRAS: 4
MENUS: 4
OVERALL: 5 |
| Rating | | | Date | April 26, 2003 | | Summary | Original and intirguing | Content
| Well casted, great performances from everyone. Totally original concept, I've never seen another film like it, or with Mick Jagger! He can actually act. After all these years since I first saw this film, there are still many scenes that stick in my head. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 18, 2003 | | Summary | Futuristic, Sci-Fi/Thriller/Drama, exciting... | Content
| 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. |
| Rating | | | Date | October 25, 2001 | | Summary | Great campy Sci-Fi | Content
| 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. |
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