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Freejack | Year: 1992 Classification: Action/Adventure Directed: - Geoff Murphy Actors/Actresses: - Emilio Estevez - Mick Jagger - Rene Russo - Anthony Hopkins - Amanda Plummer CHILLS ON HIGH!!! Sir Anthony Hopkins, Emilio Estevez, Amanda Plummer, and Mick Jagger. The future is polluted but high tech. If you want to live forever, be rich and able to jack = steal from the past a healthy body from its moments just before death. Excellent Film. When Hopkins says "Welcome to my mind!" I felt Hannibal Lecter chills. Loved it! Great campy Sci-Fi 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. Original and intirguing 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. "I'm ready for that hit between the eyes...." 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. ...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 Alex Furlong: Emilio Estevez Director: Geoff Murphy MOVIE: 5 Buy Freejack at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Freejack Search with the Priority Search Engine on Freejack This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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