| 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 | August 09, 2005 | | Summary | Amazing achievement | Content
 | 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.
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| 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. |
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