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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...
...wants to give birth to this redeemer, she must stay out of the terminator's steely grasp. In T2, 10 years later, the T-man is back, but on the side of the angels. His mission is to protect Sarah (Linda Hamilton) and her young son (Edward Furlong) from an even more efficiently psychopathic cyborg, the T-1000 (Robert Patrick). The movie is a 135-minute chase that re- enacts the Holy Family's flight into Egypt. You can imagine the biblical potential for further sequels, but Cameron would rather not. His motto during this arduous shoot, he says...