Synopsis
Don't let the future pass you by.
Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a terminally ill billionaire.
1992 Directed by Geoff Murphy
Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a terminally ill billionaire.
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New York City. 2009. Billionaires can jack your body...one man will fight to jack himself.
This movie is about a race car driver (Emilio Estevez) who gets zapped 18 years into the future by futuristic bounty hunters called "Bonejackers, led by Mick Jagger. Jagger and his gang cruise around Manhattan in pink APCs and Go Karts and want to sell Emilio’s good 90s bod to a dead billionaire (Anthony Hopkins) who wants to upload his consciousness into him from a super computer and achieve immortality. Features a truly hellish future NYC where the ultra rich are quarantined in luxury safe zones where they use militarized law enforcement to keep the virus-ridden masses at bay. It was a bit far-fetched insofar as it assumes an apocalyptic level of crime, nonstop violence and street warfare would necessarily accompany such a scenario.
A gloriously terrible and baffling movie featuring one of cinema's all time awful performances by Mick Jagger.
Even if no one had pitched an effects-heavy, body-stealing cyberthriller starring Emilio Estevez, Rene Russo, and Anthony Hopkins to a studio, I believe one would have sponteneously generated itself out of the sheer necessity of it being 1992. Mick Jagger playing a sassy bounty hunter is perhaps a tad less inevitable, but we can chalk that up to a fortunate glitch in the programming.
Taken as the natural byproduct of the post-Total Recall/Terminator '90s sci-fi landscape, this is a fun chunk of mid-budget nonsense full of unlikable characters making imbecilic decisions and babbling exposition in front of decent-for-the-time visual effects backdrops. Taken as a movie, it's overlong, fairly inert, and noticeably Estevez-centric. I'll count it as a win, but when…
“From the producer of ALIEN and TOTAL RECALL!”
I remember you, trailer for FREEJACK. I suspected at the time you were all hype, just took me 30 years to confirm it.
Writer/producer Ron Shusett is the common factor, but probably not the reason the 2 aforementioned films are well-remembered, if FREEJACK is an indication. It shares more than a few story similarities with Paul Verhoven’s sci-fi man-hunt, just done worse in every regard — and way less violent. Some Verhovian ultra-violence never hurts IMO.
In the future, when age or disease wears down the rich, they hire mercs called “bone-jackers” to snatch new bodies for them…from accident victims in the past. It’s like MILLENNIUM ‘89 but more sinister. Emilio Estevez…
The Citizen Kane of 2 star movies. As if the grease stain on a brown paper bag accidentally formed the image of the Mona Lisa. Like a prisoner managing to brew Cheval Blanc in their toilet. Marvelously sophisticated garbage
there's a chase scene in Freejack where Emilio is driving a barn on wheels while telling Mick Jagger he "couldn't catch the clap in a whorehouse" and a bunch of futuristic cars (that look like they fell out of Death Race 2000) keep flipping over like they're in a cartoon - and it's probably the most subtle scene in the whole movie; histrionic 90s sci-fi trash with too much money to burn and a synopsis that it can't possibly live up to but it still kinda rules
If you want to illustrate the importance of costume and production design, merely watch "Blade Runner" and "Freejack" back to back. "Blade Runner" manages to create a spellbinding, grim atmosphere by crafting sets and costumes that establish a reality unlike any other. "Freejack", on the other hand, takes an intriguing premise (in the future, the wealthy can live forever by transferring their minds into disease-free bodies stolen from the past the split second before those bodies expire) and shoots it directly in the foot with some of the dopiest, most ridiculous vehicles and costumes you've ever seen in your life.
This isn't the only problem with "Freejack", just the most glaringly apparent one. Another major issue is that Emilio Estevez…
Letterboxd titan Alex famously described Freejack as "The Citizen Kane of two-star movies.” And while I think that’s basically the final word on the matter, I will say that for a second there, it’s looking like it’s going to be a backgammon two — which is actually a four — but then it does kinda bog down and you’re continually reminded why Emilio Estevez was roundly rejected from movie star status.
But there’s lots to love. Mick Jagger's crew of freejack-hunters bombs around FU-TOR New York in APCs painted bright primary colors. Rich people drive FU-TOR cars that look like a brontosaur’s sex toys. Rene Russo is clearly three inches taller than Emilio in the wide shots, then they…
Junky "cyberpunk"-ish sci-fi action yarn about a race car driver who accidentally survives a time travel body-snatching gambit and is now stuck in a poverty-stricken, oppressive-police-state future (the far flung realm of ...2009!) where he has to go on the run and find out who's responsible. Probably more fun to dig up for the first time 29 years later than it was to watch back in 1992. Look at this cast! Emilio, Mick Jagger, fellow giant-mouth '70s rocker David Johansen, Rene Russo, Anthony Hopkins immediately after winning an Oscar, Jonathan Banks, Amanda Plummer, Frankie Faison, Esai Morales, and more. It's a full-on harvest of folks you know. The studio must've had high hopes for this picture, perhaps presuming it would…
MICK JAGGER als Kopfgeldjäger!
Kopfgeldjäger aus der Zukunft fallen in die Gegenwart ein, um für Nachschub an menschlichen Körpern zu sorgen – und damit den Superreichen ihr ewiges Leben zu sichern. Denn der technische Fortschritt erlaubt es, das Bewusstsein eines Sterbenden in eine Datenbank, dem Spiritual Switchboard, und anschließend in den Körper eines anderen zu übertragen. So wird der Rennfahrer Alex Furlong 1991 aus dem Cockpit seines Wagens entführt ("Diese Mistkerle haben dich weggebeamt!") und in die futuristische Welt von 2009 katapultiert ("Er ist angekommen. Fangt an!"). Eigentlich ist er tot ("Stellt ihn ruhig und wickelt ihn ein!") und doch muss er um sein Leben laufen. Er ist ein FREEJACK, ein Fremder in einer absolut fremdartigen Welt ("Auf jede in…
This is like if Total Recall were made by high school film students who did a lot of drugs.