Word: freejack
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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...this is the blueprint for today's Hollywood sci-fi flick. And in one sense, Freejack, which follows this now-formulaic pattern for a sci-fi movie, is a victim of bad timing. Nevertheless, looked at by itself it is a still a poorly crafted film...
...Freejack tells the story of Alex Furlong (Emilio Estevez), a highly successful race car driver whose nearly perfect life is abruptly cut short in a tragic racing accident. But Furlong doesn't die in 1991. He and the rest of the film are transported to 2009, where bounty hunter Vacendak (Mick Jagger) awaits Furlong's arrival to take his body to its new owner, corporate mega ruler Ian McCandless (Bob Hopkins...
...funny thing happens on the way to the "spiritual switchboard." Furlong escapes, thereby becoming a "freejack," a body that in its own time would be dead and buried had it not been transported into the future just seconds before actual death...
...most inane of this sequence of chases, Vacendak and Furlong, hunter and hunted, at last come face to face. Does Furlong seize the opportunity to kill his nemesis? Does Vacendak put an end to the chase and take the "freejack" captive? No, of course not. Plot developments such as these would have actually made sense. Instead, in an act of reciprocal mercy, Vacendak decides to let the freejack go for now and, giving Furlong a five minute headstart, begins counting "One Mississippi, Two Mississippi...
...Freejack redeems itself in the end with its intricate and somewhat psychedelic computerized journey into the minds of Furlong and McCandless during the bodily transplant...