Rating: 
Summary: "I'm ready for that hit between the eyes...."
Review: 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:
Summary: Unpredictable plot with great actors.
Review: Anthony Hopkins seems to improve with age, and Freejack is proof of that. Amanda Plummer plays off-the-wall roles well. Jonathan Banks was a good smug, arrogant, power-hungry type. Even Mick Jagger was fun to watch. One little annoyance was the cute little phrases someone felt compelled to put into the script before any real action took place. But even some of that was done really skillfully.
Rating: 
Summary: Nothing Comes FREE For a Freejack!
Review: Emilio Estives is a race car driver. In fact, he's a great race car driver with a beautiful girlfiend (Renee Russo) and a typical slimeball manager who would sell the guy's shoelaces, if he could make a profit. On the day of The Big Race, Emilio flies down the track then up into a billboard! The crash is stupendous and they can't even find a pinky finger after the flames and dust settle. Meanwhile, back in the future, good old Mick "the lips" Jagger is preparing to snatch Emilio from the past - milliseconds before the fatal crash. Why? you want to know? Wellllllll, it seeams that man has succeeded in two major areas - he has totally poluted the world to the point that most people are deseased and he has created the Cosmic Switchboard where a person's "being" can be transferred to another host body, thereby creating virtual immortallity. The plot thickens! But, it's still your basic love triangle with a bit of power playing and sneacky backstabbing. Bad guys turn out to be good guys, good guys end up being barbequed because they're really bad guys, and the hero gets the girl, the money, and the power!
Rating:
Summary: Nothing Comes FREE For a Freejack!
Review: Emilio Estives is a race car driver. In fact, he's a great race car driver with a beautiful girlfiend (Renee Russo) and a typical slimeball manager who would sell the guy's shoelaces, if he could make a profit. On the day of The Big Race, Emilio flies down the track then up into a billboard! The crash is stupendous and they can't even find a pinky finger after the flames and dust settle. Meanwhile, back in the future, good old Mick "the lips" Jagger is preparing to snatch Emilio from the past - milliseconds before the fatal crash. Why? you want to know? Wellllllll, it seeams that man has succeeded in two major areas - he has totally poluted the world to the point that most people are deseased and he has created the Cosmic Switchboard where a person's "being" can be transferred to another host body, thereby creating virtual immortallity. The plot thickens! But, it's still your basic love triangle with a bit of power playing and sneacky backstabbing. Bad guys turn out to be good guys, good guys end up being barbequed because they're really bad guys, and the hero gets the girl, the money, and the power!
Rating:
Summary: Futuristic, Sci-Fi/Thriller/Drama, exciting...
Review: 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.
Rating: 
Summary: The worst film I've ever seen.
Review: I really cannot stress how bad this drivel is.I cannot think of one redeeming feature about it,except maybe Anthony Hopkins,and I really cannot figure how he got caught up in this unspeakable mess.
Rating:
Summary: Great campy Sci-Fi
Review: 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.
Rating:
Summary: Great campy Sci-Fi
Review: 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.
Rating:
Summary: CHILLS ON HIGH!!!
Review: 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!
Rating:
Summary: CHILLS ON HIGH!!!
Review: 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!
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