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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 35542
Released: June 1, 2004 |
| Our Price: $3.00 |
| Used Price: $1.15 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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.
Freejack Reviews:
Hollywoodie-ed ...................... 
2008-09-08 - It looks great, it's fast-paced, it has good actors, but it's a turkey.
What went wrong?
Firstly, one of those actors - Rene Russo - doesn't have her heart in it. And since she's the love interest, that kills the love story. There's been plenty of negative comment about Mick Jagger in this, but he's fine. It seems most people just can't get their heads around such a famous rock star being an actor.
The major problem is the script, which probably had merit when written, but ended up after the rewrites making very little sense. You can watch this movie and enjoy the ride, but at the end you just ask yourself, "What the hell was that?".
None of it makes much sense. Every scene has been designed as a photo opportunity to make the film's technicians look good on show reels - and they do. But the price paid is to alienate the audience from any identification or lasting enjoyment.
Ultimately,the producers Hollywoodie-ed this one.
Sci-Fi action with great stars 
2008-01-08 - 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.
"Furlong, the brake is the one on the left" 
2007-08-02 - 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)?
Not Bad, but Not Great either 
2006-08-09 - 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.
even "mick" has second thoughs about this one
2006-01-20 - 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!!
