I first saw this movie on TV in 2009, seventeen years after it came out and the very year it ended up being set in. Like many others, I ended up feeling it was better than average due to many factors. Yes, the idea of snatching people from the past the moment before they die was covered in "Millenium," but it was done on an individual basis for a different reason, here. The actors were great, particularly Mick Jagger as the relentless bounty hunter. The one thing that really got me was the scene where Emilio Estevez, from 1991, first views the 2009 Manhattan skyline. The scene pans from the Empire State Building south to the Battery and we see that the Twin Towers have been replaced by a single taller building (the top of which ends up as the scene of the film's climax). Has anyone asked how that scene was thought up in 1992? The first bomb attack in the parking garage of the World Trade Center was in 1993, and was intended to bring down both towers by knocking one into the other. This prophetic film moment lifts "Freejack" into the "must watch" category!

I ended up to watch this film after hunting for some Robert Sheckley short stories. After the "A Ticket to Tranai" I was into everything from him. The film itself is a low cost B movie, a good craftsman's work, worth to be watched on a Sunday afternoon.BUT How it Should Have Ended (HISHE :) )McCandless: I am desperately in love, Julie Redlund. I just adore your brassy hair and round booty.Julie: But sir, this can be considered a sexual harassment, you are my boss, and anyway, I am still mourning after 15 years my sexy race driver love, Alex Furlong.McCandless: No problem, Julie, I have a time machine and we can bring him back to life, right now- of course, it has a price.Julie: I give no head for this, if you mean it, despite Monica did this to our adored ex-president.McCandless: But Julie, this is my proposal: -We get back your husband (and I don't mark that he will be much younger than you, my dear cougar) I upload partly my mind to him, so we will always have a threesome. Deal?Julie: You old pervert!McCandless: After I die, he will get my fortune... Does this look nicer?Julie: Let's nail this agreement right now, I see that there is a plenty of space on your desk.

Racer Alex Furlong is snatched by time travel, a split second before a fatal explosion, by Vacendak's 21st-century team of techies, who plan to sell his healthy body to an ailing rich man at McCandless Corporation, for a mind transfer. He escapes, but has no rights in this nightmare future of violence and sleaze. The story concerns his survival, and his attempt to revive his relationship with his fiancée Julie, now 15 years older and an executive at McCandless....Loved this movie when it was released in 1992, had doubts if I would like it nearly twenty years later with rose coloured specs, and while the film has many flaws, you cannot deny the stupid fun you have whilst watching it.Basically, Murphy has taken Estevez's Billy the Kid and made him into a sci-fi hero, thats plain and simple, as there are many connotations to young guns 2.Even though the story and narration is convoluted throughout, watching Mick Jagger spouting many a classic line is alone worth watching the movie.The swagger he has when saying every line, and the audience can physically see him trying to act so much, he just stops caring toward the end, and it's all the better for it.Emilio is good, but as i've already said, it's just Billy the Kid.The rest of the cast really support well, even if its obvious Hopkins did this for the cash. Characters go and go without any explanation, especially Frankie Faison, and the chap who appears to know Alex when he goes back to his apartment, why didn't Alex have a chat with him/Set pieces are fun even if the are cheesy, and the film is only semi-serious, nothing here to test the grey matter.It's a fun Friday night movie, never boring, always silly.

There have been many movies about time travel, but "Freejack" is quite unique. It portrays race-car driver Alex Furlong (Emilio Estevez) getting unwillingly transported to 21st century New York, where some people want to give his young body to aging Ian McCandless (Anthony Hopkins). Estevez, Hopkins, and Rene Russo all do fair jobs with their roles, but it's really impressive seeing Mick Jagger as the villain's henchman Victor Vacendak. I mean, every once in a while, a rock star shows up in a movie, but Jagger is really neat here. Gravitating between menacing and jolly, this must have been a role through which he got some satisfaction.So, this movie does have an interesting plot, but it's mostly worth seeing just to see Mick Jagger as a bad guy. Really cool. Amanda Plummer, John Shea and Esai Morales also appear.