Frequency is one of those movies you watch, and when it ends, you wonder what you actually saw. But not because of a bad story. In fact, quite the opposite. With constantly changing and sometimes conflicting timelines, "Frequency" is a thriller you'll want to watch again and again. For it both asks and answers the timeless question: Is it possible to change a past event? Yes, but with consequences. The action starts in 1969, where the Sullivan family-father Frank, mother Julia and son John--exists at the edge of a dangerous life. Frank is a career firefighter, soon to die in a warehouse blaze. After a brief view of the sun with multiple sunspots, time flashes forward thirty years to the same neighborhood. Up in the sky is a quick flash of green light known in the northern hemisphere as the aurora borealis. John Sullivan is now in his mid-thirties. And his girlfriend Samantha is dumping him for being emotionally shut down. Some time later, his friend from childhood Gordo Hersh and his son Gordy, Jr, discover an old ham radio in John's hall closet. When John starts using it, he hears a voice broadcasting over the airwaves. He comes to realize the voice as belonging to his father Frank Sullivan, talking on the same physical ham radio in his time that John is talking in his own. John finds a way to warn his father of the "Buxton" fire, and if Frank just went a different way, he could have saved himself. Which is exactly what Frank does. But with Frank alive, that alters his own timeline. His wife Julia is a hospital nurse who prevents a medical error that would have killed her patient known as the Nightingale killer. He was responsible for killing nurses, and in this new altered timeline, that list now includes Julia, John's mother. So now Frank in his time and John in his must communicate to fix the consequence of changing the past. Before John told his father how to save himself, John was investigating the Nightingale murders, then including three. Now it jumps to ten, and as Frank crosses paths with the killer in his time, trying to stop the murders both he and John know are coming, more complications arise. Frequency most likely named due to how father and son managed to connect across thirty years amid a solar sunspot storm and the resultant northern lights. It involves a series of conundrums that must be overcome for both to survive. As you ride the roller-coaster of action to the climax, you marvel at how well this movie is made. And wish there were more like it.

It never ceases to amaze me that some movies, despite being incredible in what they do, don't get nearly the attention they deserve. "Frequency" is an example of exactly that situation.For a basic plot summary, "Frequency" tells the story of a father Frank Sullivan (Dennis Quaid) and his son Jon (Jim Caviezel). After establishing the strong father-son bond the two have in 1969, the movie cuts to 1999, where Jon is a wore out cop struggling to keep is life together. On the night before the anniversary of his father's death, a strange aurora borealis effect (combined with a ham radio) produce a "frequency" that allow father (1969) and son (1999) to talk with each other once again.This movie is so compelling and full of real human drama that words in a review hardly do it justice. In fact, it almost sounds cheesy and a bit oft-putting to describe the plot. Rest assured, though, that this is about as quality of a movie as one can find. It quite literally has everything...incredibly real-feeling characters, a mind-bending plot, great acting, and emotional story lines that will have you welling up in both tears of joy and sadness on certain occasions.I am utterly flabbergasted that a movie like this doesn't get more recognition. Most people I know have not seen it (a crying shame!). It is also the kind of movie that the whole family can enjoy. There is no harsh violence or terrible profanity. Director Gregory Hoblit crafts "Frequency" into a genre-diverse (and aren't those the best kind of films?!) masterpiece that proves creativity still has a place in Hollywood."Frequency" is one of my favorite films of all-time. It tackles so many elements of filmmaking, yet manages to seamlessly weave them all into a tapestry of wonderment. If you haven't had the pleasure (and you probably haven't, knowing this film's relatively unknown stature), you are missing out on an incredible experience.

FREQUENCY is an odd little film which is much like the Tony Scott thriller DEJA VU: it can be classed as a time travel film, but not in a traditional sense. The plot nugget is about a magical ham radio set that allows an ordinary family man to communicate with his own father back in 1969, before he was killed in a fire. The plot at various times incorporates elements of the disaster genre, family drama, science fiction, and finally serial killer thriller.It's quite an episodic movie and the story doesn't always hold together all that well, but overall it's quite successful and the unusual premise works. Director Gregory Hoblit previously made the excellent FALLEN and he imbues this film with the same look, particularly during the serial killer scenes. FREQUENCY does occasionally veer into schmaltz but a fast pace sees it through in the end. Neither Jim Caviezel nor Dennis Quaid are my favourite actors but they're solid enough here and the climax is cleverly done.

I love this movie very much. When I searched the movie which is recommended to people who like fantasy genre, I found this movie. I had longed to watch it for a long time, and finally I can watch it. I understand the reason why this movie get a high evaluation from many people. This is not just fantasy movie. Its genre is changed in the movie. we recognize it's a heartfelt fantasy movie including human drama elements at the first time, but from the middle of the movie, mysterious elements appear, and after that, suspenseful elements are added to that, and finally all those genre are mixed and movie ends happily. The son connects his dead father who is living in the past time and they try to change the past. In that scene most of viewers may cannot help crying and that scene makes our hearts so moved. But mysterious and suspenseful elements increase gradually, and we become excited so much. I like the ending of it because every character become happy. Some people might say there is no reality, but all of things which are happened in the story make the ending together. So I think the ending of this movie is excellent.