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Summary: The best movie of the year 2000!
Review: Frequency, is the best movie of the year 2000, it has everything, lots of action, great perfomances, and it's quite very smart, the only problem is the plot twists and plot holes, but still it's quite an excellent, movie, it's sooooooo great, that i watch it a lot of times on DVD, and by the way, the DVD edition it's also very cool, the trailer, is very cool, and it's recorded on Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround audio, unlike most trailers on DVD's, also they are some deleted scenes, and extended scene, such as the one, when there was a Noah Emmerich cameo, and a extended scene when little Gordo talks to John on the radio, also a behind the scenes documentary, and the DVD-Rom features, are great, they contain the script, the original theatrical website, a "Lord of the Rings" web browser, a playable game demo of "Ground Control", this is truly a great movie and a great DVD, too bad that there isn't a DTS Digital Surround Sound.
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Summary: Great Thriller
Review: A rare atmospheric phenomenon allows a New York City firefighter to communicate with his son 30 years in the future via short-wave radio. The son uses this opportunity to warn the father of his impending death in a warehouse fire, and manages to save his life. However, what he does not realize is that changing history has triggered a new set of tragic events, including the murder of his mother. The two men must now work together, 30 years apart, to find the murderer before he strikes so that they can change history--again.
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Summary: A great sci-fi/ thriller.
Review: This film it's completly fantastic, the perfomances are great, lots of action and suspense, the DVD was also very cool, and so the DVD-Rom features, you will definetly love this movie,and by the way all fathers and sons must see this movie!
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Summary: A pleasing, entertaining film for everyone!
Review: How best to describe "Frequency," one of the most pleasing and interesting films I've seen in a long time?To start with, it gives a fresh and fascinating approach to time travel. It stars Dennis Quaid and lesser-known James Caviezel as father and son. To sum up the story, some sort of phenomena allows father and son to communicate through time over an old CB radio. The film is simultaneaously heart-warming and fascinating. It's part murder-mystery suspense that will keep you guessing 'til the end on a thrilling roller-coaster ride, and it's also part science fiction that will leave you pondering circumstance and chance & make you wonder how the small decisions you make in life ultimately effect the timeline, and it's also a good old-fashioned story of family and love and baseball that will make you feel like the American Dream is a real thing and not just an ideal of the past. "Frequency" is simply a wonderful film that is sure to please all types of viewers. It is emotionally satisfying, with a nail-biting and intelligently written plot, and enough action to please mainstream audiences. With that said, go watch the movie. I don't want to give any more away. It's a wonderful, brilliant movie, and the DVD itself is fabulous.
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Summary: Intelligent and heart-wringing
Review: This is one of the few satisfying movies I can remember seeing. Apart from loving Dennis Quaid, who puts in a great performance, I like this film for its unabashed good storytelling. It is tense because it allows us to grow incredibly involved with the characters. Moreover, apart from the usual coincidence thing, the science fiction plot doesn't have holes. May you enjoy this movie as much as I did!
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Summary: This is good thriller making!
Review: The year 2000 was a banner year for New Line Cinema, with the releases of such successful movies as the science fiction thriller "The Cell" and the horror film "Final Destination." One of the movies among this group of terrific releases is "Frequency," which takes a scientific occurence and turns it into a genuine thriller with tons of surprises and twists. With a truly original plot and a cast of superb actors, this is as good as thrillers get. Police officer John Sullivan is having a tough spot in life. He can't stop thinking about his father, who died thirty years ago when he was a small child. Being a firefighter, Frank Sullivan cares for his wife and kids as much as any husband and father can, so when someone starts using the same frequency as he is on his ham radio, he becomes even more freaked out when he starts realizing that he is talking to his son who is 30 years in the future. Likewise, John is also confused yet exhilarated that he has the chance to talk to his father, and when he gives Frank a piece of information that saves his life, newspapers and family photos magically transform to show his life prolonged until the 80's. However, when a string of murders is set in motion in 1969, Frank and John must work together to catch the murderer before he can reach his next victim: Frank's wife and John's mother. If you think this all sounds confusing, believe me, the only confusing thing about it is trying to think of how to write a synopsis of it. It's not that difficult to comprehend, and while it is not over-simplified, everything is pretty straightforward and understandable. The audience will be able to tell the two time periods about by either looking for the characters' age and appearance, or by the sweeping shots of the aurora borealis, which serves as the link that connects father and son on the radio. Being a student of science, I think I can speak accurately in saying that the science behind the movie is very precise and careful not to stretch credulity. The whole idea for the connection is based on the aurora borealis, or northern lights, which are particles from the sun hitting the surface of Earth's atmosphere, causing interference in most broadcasts and transmissions. The idea that some of those particles can carry transmissions from the past is perfectly fitting for the movie, and hardly makes it not worth watching. The film has an incredibly high amount of intense action and suspense, especially in the second half. Most notably is the sequence in which Frank is caught in the burning building and must make a decision as to where he must go to get out. Most pessimists out there will shrug this scene off with the notion, "Oh, he's going to live because there's another hour of movie to go." But don't say I didn't warn you if you don't find yourself on the edge of your seat the whole way through. Casting for this movie was a big plus, one of the better ensembles I've seen for a movie like this. It works because everyone fits, molded to the roles they play. Dennis Quaid's performance as Frank Sullivan is incredible, and since he is most of the movie's life force, he carries it off in a fashion that makes the tension even tighter. John Caviezel plays John Sullivan, the slightly emotional and yet smart police officer and grown son of Frank. His acting really brings out the character's strength and heroicism. Because I don't want to ruin the ending for you, I'm not going to mention the actor who plays the villian, but I can say that he is the true embodiment of a movie villain: dark, sinister, and a slick character when faced with possible defeat. The thriller genre is becoming quite tired these days with the same old plot and character development, and it's quite a refreshment to watch "Frequency." A terrific action piece and even a family film by most standards, you'll find it to be quite original, entertaining, and thrilling in all the right places.
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Summary: Some things just are meant to be great.
Review: Let me ask you a question: when you think of a science fiction movie (fantasy included), what do you think of?......If you thought either "Star Wars" or a lot of special effects, you are like every other person in this world. However, we have been mislead. Today, we don't need computers to do the work. In reality, a good plot with good acting does the job quite well. Frequency is one of those films. I saw this when it came to video, and I watched it several times thereafter. However, I expected the son to be a teenager, not a 35 year-old. He was a little annoying at the beginning, but maybe that was his character. As John's character progressed throughout the film, he became somebody to cheer for. Well, here's the plot if you don't know already. When John was a child, his son was killed in a fire. When he is 35, he takes out his Dad's old ham radio and experiments with it, only to find himself talking to his father from the past. He even talks to himself when he was a kid! Yeah, it seems strange and unbelievable, but it works very well. (Mainly because of the sun-spot theory in the film.) The special effects are nearly non-existant. There are very few in the entire film, and they are not needed. The plot--the great plot with a lot of twists!--, carries the movie completely from start to finish. You won't even notice the slowness of some scenes because of this. However, I did have a few questions: one was a question as to why his father could suddenly become a super hero when he was just a fireman. I didn't fully believe that, but it's small, therefore you don't think of it. The acting is supurb--and even the New York accents are believable. I haven't said much about the plot because I don't want to give anything away. All I said is what you'd see on your average TV commercial, and that's it. At this point I am trying to persaude each and every one of you out there to get this film for yourself and watch the surprises. I can't say enough about this movie; it deserves high ranks...it was certainly a lot better than a lot of movies I've seen that have one Oscars for pure junk! I won't elaborate on those movies here, however.
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Summary: A film you should see with your Moms and Dads
Review: "Frequency" is one of the year's best films and unfortunately, will go unnoticed in 2000. It's a touching, first rate drama that combines science fiction and family drama via a ham radio. Caviezel plays John Sullivan, an NYPD detective who contacts his dad, Frank Sullivan (Quaid) thirty years into the past. As a result, their contact results in a trigger effect of events that will affect both their lives and they've got to do something about it. My mother said she loved the film because it's about the bond between a father and son. Everyone I've talked to has something positive to say about "Frequency" and when I finally saw it, I loved it. It touches on the subject of father and son working as a team and trying to race against time. One review said "Frequency" is finally an excuse for grown men to cry because of it's story. "Frequency" is definitely a film you should see with your dad and your mom regardless because it's a very touching film that tugs the heart strings. Quaid is always good at playing Everyman characters that people can identify with an audience and Caviezel shows his talent as John. Definitely a film worth watching.
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Summary: THE ULTIMATE FATHER-SON REUNION...HEARTWARMING FANTASY FILM
Review: This is a wonderfully nuanced fantasy flick with a bravura performance by Dennis Quaid who plays the father and a compelling one by Jim Caviezel who plays the son. Another reviewer hit the nail on the head when he claimed this film to be reminiscent of a Twilight Zone episode. It certainly has that feel to it. The premise here is a simple one. A son, haunted by the premature, though heroic, death of his fire fighter father thirty years earlier, is reunited with him through an old ham radio which had belonged to his father. He finds himself speaking to his father over the air waves, when an aurora borealis-like solar storm provides a conduit into the past. This connection to the past allows the son to alter the one event which has so profoundly marred his life, that of his father's death. Over the airwaves he tells his father of the fire to which he will be dispatched and of his impending death. He also tells his father what he needs to do in order to avoid his premature demise. The father is dispatched to the fire about which his son has told him and acts upon his son's suggestion, forever altering the future. This change, however, alters other events, and it results in his mother's premature death at the hands of a serial killer. Father and son now go to work in tandem, each in his own time and way, to try to alter this event, forever changing their respective lives. The son, who is a cop, finds that the case which he has been working on is now the unsolved serial killer case involving his mother. As the father effects subtle changes in his respective reality, this causes shifts in his son's present day reality. While this may seem a little confusing, it is to be expected when you are dealing with time shifts and the ramificatins of altering past events through future information. Ultimately, this causes an interesting convergence of the past upon the present. A nice touch to this film is the fact that it takes place in Queens, New York, home of the New York Mets, and both father and son are die hard Mets fans. More specifically, the father's death occurs in 1969, the year in which the New York Mets won the World Series. This will turn out to be a pivotal event in the movie for more reasons than the obvious one. Baseball fans and nostalgia buffs will love its inclusion in the film. This is a wonderful movie which is sure to both fascinate and tug at your heart strings.
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Summary: Movie Review - Frequency
Review: Synopsis: Communication is re-established between family members separated by 30 years and an untimely, heroic death. By the use of a HAM radio and coincidental flaring of major sun spots/flares a father and son are granted a reunion. The question is: "If you have the chance to alter the past for your own betterment do you worry about reprecussions, if any, in the present/future?" As much as this story tries to make Dennis Quaid out to the leading man/hero type I'm afraid he's lost a little bit of his luster in my eyes. He's not collecting social security or anything, but he doesn't have the same spunk that we're used to him having in his last good movie....say "Innerspace","D.O.A" or "The Big Easy" at least a five years ago. As predictable as this movie could have been there were enough mind traps and confusion between simultaneous parallel dimensions and time warps to throw off anybody in this twist-of-a- twister. If you've seen "Dead Again!" and a few episodes of Quantam Leap I think you'd get the jist of this movie pretty quick. Myself, not being a huge fan of a twist-on-a- twisters I do appreciate the one quality this type of thriller possesses. Things can get so intermingled that just about anything is possible and there can be one of a hundred possible endings. With that I leave it up to you to decide...suitable for any age probably 15 or above as it does get a bit complicated. The acting was decent although not stellar. I give it a C (73/100)because it's been done before. I've seen worse. If you've seen "Dead Again!" and liked it you'll probably like this movie. Conversely, if you see/have seen this and liked it you would love "Dead Again!". Better acting and even stranger twist. DVD Special features: There are two commentaries(neither of which I listened to because it's a school night - one by the director and one by the screen writer and an actor). There is a brief chronological progression of the animation at the start of the movie. This is kind of trivial because I didn't give it a second thought at the time. 4 progression last less than a minute with almost no explanation. Lastly, there is some science behind the feasability of parellel dimension/time travel stuff. I'm sure it was fascinating, but like I said...it's a school night. Actor bios and filmographies are also included
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