Freejack (1992)

Bounty hunters from the future raid the present to provide new bodies for the super rich in the all-out pedal-to-the-medal sci-fi thriller Freejack directed by Geoff Murphy (Young Guns) and sparked by the imagination of Alien and Total Recall veteran Ronald Shusett. Emilio Estevez Mick Jagger Anthony Hopkins and Rene Russo star keeping pace with the scenic supersonic excitement. Prior to a crash race car driver Alex Furlong (Estevez) is snatched from his cockpit and hurled into the futureworld of 2009. He's dead. And running for his life. He's a "freejack" a stranger in the strangest of lands. And a relentless "bonejacker" (Jagger) can collect millions bringing him in.Running Time: 110 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: SCI-FI/FANTASY UPC: 085391637325 Product Description

Sci-Fi action with great stars

I like this movie because it brought so many things I like to the table. The stars: Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, Rene Russo, Anthony Hopkins. The action: F1 racing, futuristic cars & chases, space guns & gear. The romance between Emilio & Rene. The psychedelic images at the end, etc. Definitely worth watching. January 8, 2008

"Furlong, the brake is the one on the left"

Emilo Estevez, Anthony Hopkins, Mick Jagger, and Rene Russo lead an allstar cast in this futuristic sci-fi action thriller set in the future. Good action, some comedy and Mick Jagger fits; in this great futuristic movie.
Alex Furlong (Estevez) was an Indy race car driver who unbeknown to him has been chosen for a body swap in the future from the very rich CEO of a company played by Hopkins. Right before Furlong was to be killed in a crash during the race, he is snatched from his time period and teleported to the future. Mick Jagger is a commander of a type of police-force bounty hunter army who is charged with getting Furlong delivered to complete the body/mind switch. Something goes wrong and the action heats up. Will Mick Jagger deliver the Freejack (Furlong)? August 2, 2007

Not Bad, but Not Great either

Freejack was a bit of a disappointment, considering the makeup of the cast: Emilio Estevez, Rene Russo, Anthony Hopkins, and Mick Jagger among others, though by no means is it a bad movie.
A race-car driver is teleported out of a deadly crash only to be transported 18 years into the future where things are just a tiny bit different...
In short, the acting is generally pretty good (though nothing great), the setting is above average, while the dialogues and the plot are below average.
The major setbacks are in relation to:
1) The weak plot and especially the weak dialogues, for which the writers are to blame.
2) Mick Jagger is pathetic in this film! Almost as bad were the actors playing the minor/supporting roles.
3) Emilio Estevez, Rene Russo, and Anthony Hopkins were given terrible lines. What a waste of an AMAZING cast!
Though the potential for a good movie was definitely there it fails to take off, primarily due to the writers.
In a nutshell, it's an ok movie and that's about it; no masterpiece here... Wait till they show it on TV.
August 9, 2006

even "mick" has second thoughs about this one

i saw this film at the theaters and though it was ok. not great but a nice little sci-fi action movie and the added actraction of mick jagger in it. well years later the place i work was one of the concert dates the stones played, so i got the work the show for free and meet the band. well mick asked the workers after the band thanked us for our hard work if any of us had seen any of his movies and a few of us raised our hands, so he asked if we had seen "freejack" to witch i raised my hand alone. he asked if i saw it at the movies witch i said i did. he then took a $5.00 dollar bill signed it and gave it to me with a sorry for my having wasted my money . he said it read great and they had a great time making it but somewhere it got "F__kup"! i own this movie and it's ok but the $5.00 and the sigiing of it makes this film a little more special to me so enjoy even if mick doesn't!! January 20, 2006

Amazing achievement

Somehow, it's possible to put Emilio Estevez, Rene Russo, and Anthony Hopkins together in a movie, and get a mediocre result. I didn't know it could be done.

Estevez (as Alex) and Russo (as Julie) are madly in love. She gives him a kiss for luck and he's off in the Formula 1 racer. Next, the car goes airborne, explodes in a ball of flame, and Alex is --

A "freejack," an escaped body, a piece of property. The time travel thingie yanked him out of the car at the last instant, into the future, where his strong young body was harvested to house some aging, sick rich guy (Hopkins). Problem is that Alex isn't through with that body yet. The rest of the movie is a gun battle/chase scene (he's a race driver, remember?) with Mick Jagger as the bounty hunter. Jagger does a fair job of sneering, and it's probably good that he was called on for little else.

Effects are minimal. There are lots of cars and armored vehicles running around, put together with colorful but cheesy effect. There are a few humorous moments, like the nun or the recipe for river rat. There's a happy ending. That's enough to make it passable amusement. If that's all you wanted, it may meet your needs.

//wiredweird August 9, 2005

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