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Summary: Refreshingly different
Review: This was a video that held many pleasant surprises. What a great original piece of writing.Most movies can be figured out before the ending, this one held my interest and kept me guessing. The ending was magnificent. This movie could also apply to living a full and happy life today.
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Summary: Frequency
Review: This movie is a great movie that will keep you guessing all the way till the end. I enjoyed seeing it at the movies, and enjoy it even more on DVD.
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Summary: One of the best movies I have ever seen!
Review: This movie has it all - action, drama, suspense, and emotion. I have never been touched so deeply by a movie. It is definitely worth buying and watching over and over again. Dennis Quaid and James Caviezel, along with the rest of the cast, were excellent. This movie was highly underrated and did not get the level of advertisement it deserved. By far the best movie of the year!
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Summary: A masterpiece!
Review: I am 14 years old, and I may be a little young for a movie critic. But take my word for it, Frequency is one of the best movies I've ever seen! I saw it in a hotel in Phlidelphia, when my parents and sister had nothing really to do. So we ordered this movie for $9.99. But, whoa, this movie is worth far more than 10 bucks! It's a brilliant time-warp adventure, a powerful love story, and a gripping thriller--all in one movie. Wild, intricate, powerful, and amazing! Frequency is a masterpiece. Buy it immediately!
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Summary: Frequency: Incredible! This movie has it all.
Review: I first saw Frequency the day it was released in theatres, after I saw a preview that got me extremely interested in the movie. I didn't know quite what to expect, but what I found was well written movie, with excellent acting performances and a very gripping storyline, a truly enjoyable moviegoing experience. The story focuses on a cop named John Sullivan (played brilliantly by James Caviezel in a breakthrough big screen performance) who lives in Queens, NY in early October 1999, which happens to be the date of an appearance of a phenomenon that allows John to communicate with his father Frank (with a very solid and emotional performance from Dennis Quaid), on the same radio, in the same house. The interesing part is that John talks to Frank thirty years earlier, merely days before Frank, a firefighter, dies herocially trying to rescue a person trapped in a blazing fire. Frank and John end up making catastrophic changes in the timeline, which leads to the brutal murder of John's mother(in an excellent performance from Elizabeth Mitchell) only days later in 1969. The movie is really a combination of several different elements. First of all it focuses on a father-son relationship between Frank and John. The interaction between Caviezel and Quaid is superb, and leads to some of the films most emotionally moving moments. The emotion is skillfully achieved, as Caviezel and Quaid don't act face-to-face, but across a HAM radio. The interplay between the two time periods really adds to the movie without overshadowing the its story. Frequency also combines elements of suspense, action, mystery, and tense drama. Frequency covers all of the bases, and does so very skillfully. This brings us to the DVD disc itself, which comes from New Line Home Video, who completely loaded the disc with a huge amount of special features, including many interesting DVD-ROM features that can be accessed by any PC with a DVD-ROM drive and PC Friendly installed. If you don't have PC Friendly on your computer, the DVD will install it for you if you so choose. The disc also has deleted scenes, as well as several feature legnth commentaries(by the director, producer, and actor Noah Emmerich who plays the adult Gordo, John's best friend). The disc also includes an interesting original documentary, as well as a trailer and animation galleries. If you are are willing to let your mind go a little bit to accept the science of the storyline, it actually becomes a fascinating part of the movie. This movie would definitely be a worthy addition to any DVD collection. Frequency also offers an extremely exciting and rewarding finale that will not disappoint anyone who watches it. The bottom line is this: Frequency is a wonderful movie, with incredibly strong emotional performances from the entire cast, very moving dramatic moments, as well as tense, gripping action sequences, and a rousing finale. Frequency is definitely one to remember. This movie truly has it all!
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Summary: Very Pleasant Surprise!
Review: I went to see this movie because it was one of the only movies at the theatre I hadn't seen (and wasn't Pokimon!).Very pleasantly surprised! It had a good plot, acting, and many twists. All in all, a really good movie! One of the better movies to come out in the last couple of years.
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Summary: Frequency's On the Right Wavelength
Review: Frequency starts like a story you'd expect to hear from your grandfather, reagiling at the past, builing it up as a better time. But director Gregory Hoblit has no intention of letting this movie sit on it's laurels or to rely so heavily on this sentimental tripe we've been forced to endure too many times. Like Pleasantville it gentally tugs at our idealic recolections of the past before blantantly tearing them down before our eyes. That's when things really pick up and we realize that this isn't the movie New Line'd built it up as being. It's an edge of your seat thrill ride with intesity to spare and not the weepy overdone meaning-of-life story we've seen done to death since Titanic. Realitively unknown actor Jim Caviezel plays a New York cop still scared by the the loss of his firefighter dad (Dennis Quaid) thirty years ago. We bounce back and forth between time as both 1969 and 1999 are unfolding parrellel to eachother. One night while playing with his father's old ham radio Caviezel finds himself talking to his dad days before his death. After the typical skeptism you'd expect from any protagonist in a sci-fi yarn, he realizes that he's been given a second chance, one in which he can use to save his father's life. But there are unexpected consequeces to his fiddling with time, the most notable of which is the continuance of a serial killer who now goes on to kill seven more victims, one of which is his own mother (I won't give too much away). It's an interesting premise and overdone as it my be the serial killer gere is still facinating stuff. Reviews have hailed it as Back to the Future meets Seven and though both films are far superior Frequency does a remarkably seamless job of interweaving elements of the two. The DVD offers a few extended scenese (nothing too exciting) and commentary tracks which to my amazement include neither the director of it's notable stars. Still, the movies is good enough itself to justify it's purchase.
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Summary: Suspense, Thriller, Love Story, & Sci Fi all in one movie
Review: Without a doubt, this movie will appeal to both men and women (when's the last time you agreed on what movie to watch??? lol). Anytime Dennis Quaid is in a movie, I'm guaranteed to watch it and this one didn't disappoint. I found that everytime I *thought* I had it figured out....I was wrong. It kept me guessing throughout. Which is good because it wasn't predictable. The constant "shift" of events in the past kept changing the future that the movie because suspenseful and interesting. I remember reading a review of this movie before I went to see it. The reviewer said that just about every man that sees it will come out of the theatre remincising about their childhood and especially their father. Sure enough, my husband talked about his dad almost all the way home from the theatre. Buy it.... you will love it!
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Summary: Underrated Thriller
Review: This underrated thriller was marketed as a father-son drama, and that's part of the equation. But what you get is also part sci-fi, part murder mystery. I hven't seen a suspense movie this good since The Fugitive, and I don't say that lightly.
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Summary: Wonderful Movie with a Great Cast
Review: Don't discount Frequency for it's far-fetched plot. (A son makes contact with his deceased father 30 in the past using an old ham radio.) It works for this movie. After the son of a firefighter learns he can communicate with his father through an old radio, he warns his father of his impending death, and thus changes history. While this bodes well for them, others soon become victims of a serial killer, who had disappeared before their interference with time. Father and son work together to solve the mystery of the serial killings, racing against the clock to save a loved one who is now to be the next victim. This movie is a fantasy. It's about family, and how being ripped apart from the ones you love can affect your life. It's a heartwarming story, filled with suspense, action, humor, and drama. There's a wonderful score, and an finale that has to be seen to be believed. This movie is highly recommended.
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