Review of Freejack (1992) by Allan C — 11 Jul 2012

What ever happened to Emelio Estevez? Great in "Repo Man" and solid in a bunch of different films (this probably being one of the weaker), but I'd really like to see him in something again.

This film however, is pretty lame. The premiss of the film, that human in the future have so polluted themselves and can no longer harvest healthy bodies now have to time travel and snatch healthy bodies from the past, is a cool idea, but this film just becomes a lame chase with a few interesting ideas scattered here and there.

There's no chemistry between Emilio and his supposed love interest Renee Russo. Anthony Hopkins shows up a few times to spout exposition. I did like David Johansen's part and Amanda Plummer as a gun toting nun also injected some life into the film, but overall it's really not very good, not to mention did not age very well with time (as opposed to say "Blade Runner", "Mad Max" or even something like "The Running Man".