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Summary: I loved this movie
Review: This is one of my favorite movies. The acting was very good and the story line was excellent. It is about a son who is able to talk to his dad on his ham radio even though his dad has been dead for thirty years. He is able to warn him about a fire he was going to where he would die. This changes the course of the future and some interesting things happen. This is a very good film.
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Summary: A Great Movie
Review: This is a great movie, with superb acting by Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel. It is a great science fictiony type film that is sure to entertain you for two hours. This is definitely of Quaid's best movie if not the best. I highly recommend it! It is a truly amazing film.
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Summary: Unique idea, great movie!
Review: The premise of this movie is absolutely fascinating! In 1999, John Sullivan, a lonely and bitter 36 year old, starts playing with his dad's old ham radio during a Northern lights display and somehow happens to get in touch with his dad (who died 30 years earlier) in 1969, a time of innocence and the age of the Amazin' Mets. As John and his dad start to change the past, they also alter future events in both good and bad ways. Can they put things right before they lose their special connection for good?The idea is unique and stays so throughout. The underrated and execellent drama/thriller is well written and acted. The movies deals with several interesting issues, is exciting without falling to the typical thriller antics and is touching without being maudlin. Definitely one of the best movies I've ever seen. All those who had even a small part in this movie should be proud of the wonderful movie they helped make. I recommend this movie in the highest terms.
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Summary: Tense Science Fiction that borders on syrupy sentimentality
Review: Just a short and quick recommendation here... a wild two thumbs up for FREQUENCY, the new Dennis Quaid flick. It's great science fiction in the tradition of the old Outer Limits series. It really played like an extended Outer Limits or Twilight Zone show, with great character development, suspense and action. It's also a good mystery! The plot revolves around strange sunspot activity which makes it possible for a NY City policeman to use a ham radio to talk to his father, a former NY City fireman who died 30 years previously in a fire. Taking advantage of the opportunity, the son warns the father of his impending death and saves the man's life -- altering forever the future timeline in a strange and HORRIBLE way that the two race through the remaining two-thirds of the film to set right. The filmmakers try really hard to put current quantum physics explanations for what's going on into the film, using an interview with a physics professor with Dick Cavett on the tele in the background on night... it's subtle, yet obvious to the audience that their conversation has to do with the events unfolding in the narrative. This of course anchors the film in the realm of science fiction rather than science fantasy or scifi, and gives it an air of suggestible believability that helps propel the plot foreward. It also has one of the most suspenseful and tense opening action sequences of any film I've seen in recent history -- a definite armrest grabber! Three solid stars for this entertaining and at times engaging film which at least attempts to deviate from the old cliche' of time travel plots, even if it fails in a few of those attempts. It's not easily predictable, but once you get a taste for the director's methodology, you'll start figuring things out. And the film's ending is a bit overly sentimental, with drawn out slo-mo sequences that border on the worst of the old Kodak "special moments" tv adverts.
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Summary: Suspend your disbelief and enjoy a great time travel tale
Review: The paradoxes of time travel are enough to convince most people that it is impossible, along with warp drive, transporter beams, and lots of other staples of science fiction. Still, writers persist in telling time travel stories and we continue to enjoy them, usually because they are about something else besides time travel. The deciding factor is not the scientific logic of the method of time travel, because ultimately the rationale simply has to be plausible enough to engage our willing suspension of disbelief. There are many people who enjoyed "Somewhere in Time" and that involved Christopher Reeves' character THINKING himself back to the past. In the end all that matters are two things. First, that there is a logical consistency to the rules of the game, whatever they might be. Second, that there is an emotional payoff to the story that is told under these circumstances. This is why the "Star Trek" episode "The City on the Edge of Forever" and the very best episodes of "Quantum Leap" were so fantastic. The script for "Frequency" written by Toby Emmerich meets both of those criteria. On the logical consistency axis the twist is to have a time travel story where nobody actually travels through time. Instead the aurora borealis allows a father, Frank Sullivan (Dennis Quaid) and son, John Sullivan (Jim Caviezel) living in the same house in Queens to talk over the same ham radio set despite the difference of thirty years. On the emotional payoff scale there is the fact that the father died thirty years ago fighting a fire and the son, who was only 6 at the time, is desperate to reach back into the past, not only to save his father's life but to stop his own life from going into the gutter. Now, that could be an entire movie right there. But for Emmerich and director Gregory Hoblit that is just the opening act of the story, because no good deed goes unpunished and if the old chestnut about stepping on a butterfly in the age of dinosaurs could chain out and change the fate of humanity you can imagine what the saving of a life accomplishes. What starts off as a science fiction/fantasy story suddenly becomes a thriller. I thought the ways the rules of the game were exploited in "Frequency" was brilliant from a narrative standpoint. Of course if you change the past you change the future, but in "Frequency" this does not happen instantly from John's perspective. He can tell the new "memories" from the old as things change. Granted, this is a dramatic device that comes into play big time in the film's climax, but that is why the logical consistency matters more than the scientific and the ending is set up by more subtle examples of the principle at work earlier in the film. I also like the way that the 1969 World Series was used in this film (I got up in the middle of the night to listen to the games on Armed Forces Radio in Japan that year, so I have strong memories of it as well) and the way that John and his father try to figure out ways of working together to change the past so they have a future. I never took physics, so I did not having any annoying scientific facts gnawing at my brain while enjoying this film, which may be why I had no problem seeing what happened in this movie as being logically consistent. I just understood the rules and thoroughly enjoyed the film. I thought I had the ending pegged, but was pleasantly surprised with what happened instead (however, on the audio commentary by the director Hoblit reveals that the ending he wanted to shoot was the one I envisioned). For those of little scientific faith there are a series of explanations offered on the added attractions on the disc, which includes the usually deleted and extended scenes, and three audio commentary tracks by (1) the director Hoblit, (2) the writer Toby Emmerich and his brother Noah, who plays Gordo Hersch, John's next door neighbor and best friend; and (3) composer Michael Kamen. When you do any of those be sure to turn on the trivia captions as well. This is one of those DVDs where any doubts about rating are erased by the bonus features. Ultimately, I found "Frequency" to be almost as good as the "Leap Home" two-part episode of "Quantum Leap," the best time travel story I have ever seen. That is high praise indeed. Final Note: That was not just any episode of "Hill Street Blues" on the television that John is watching in his home early in the film but "Trial by Fury," the season premier for the show's third season. It was not only directed by Hoblit, but was the show that earned the series another Best Drama Emmy and remains one of the Top 10 television episodes I have ever seen in my life.
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Summary: Magnificent movie, but...
Review: Thrill, love, action, agony, mystery, science fiction, cool music, a fine screenplay, strong on details & a careful edit. This movie was about to reach excellence if it wasn't for that
stupid line that came out of Quaid's mouth: A thousand years from now when school kids study about America they gonna learn about 3 things, the constitution, rock'n'roll & baseball.
Hey man, I'm sure about the second one, I don't give a sh_t about the third one but as far as I'm concerned American governments wouldn't know democracy even if it fell upon them. After all this years of reading, hearing and seing things about America (The US of A) one thing is clear in my mind: To the majority of the population of the US of A & their governments, Democracy is a joke. And you can take that to the Bank. The Global United States of Fasci_stan Bank.
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Summary: Cant Get Enough
Review: All I can say is....Wow. Well actually I can say more than that. I totally loved this movie. The storyline is fantastic. Makes you wish you could have that chance with a lost loved one. The icing on the cake is having two HOT men playing the leads in this movie. I can't think of another actor who could have played the killer better not even Christopher Walken and that says a lot. Anyone who has loved suspense should love this one.
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Summary: Great Flick. Very Clever Concept. Complete DVD
Review: Why didn't I hear more about this movie before I watched it...??? I don't know. Maybe I was hiding under a rock. This movie has it ALL, action, great sci-fi, romance and that super special father-son bond that was so perfectly caracterized. Acting was phenomenal, great cinematography... it makes you fell as if you were right there at all times. The concept was infinitely clever and ingeniuosly developed. My macho pride is nor hurt when I admit I cried to this movie... the end was just perfect! Now one of my all time favorite movies. Great flick! Enjoy.
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Summary: JUST SAY WOW
Review: AN AWESOME MOVIE!JUST WHEN YOU THINK THE PROBLEM IS SOLVED THERE COMES ANOTHER TWIST WHICH KEEPS YOU ON PINS AND NEEDLES. HELD MY ATTENTION FROM START TO FINISH. ONE OF THE BETTER FILMS I'VE SEEN AND ONE I WILL WATCH MUCH MORE THAN ONCE. 5 STARS FOR THE CREATIVITY OF THE WRITER. HARD TO GET OUT OF YOUR MIND FOR DAYS AFTER SEEING IT.
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Summary: AN EVENTUALITY CONCEIVABLE !
Review: Yes this movie can be real and true !
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