Freejack

Sci-fi films are some of my favorite movies to watch, and time travel storylines are some of the most inventive. Either the main character purposely goes into the time stream or is pulled in unwittingly by unknown forces, the fish out of water idea holds true in both instances. If the tale is inventive enough it can carry the audience's imagination to the edge of reality and beyond where everything that is viewed almost becomes an acceptable past or future. Here the idea that there is a technology that can pluck a person from the past, if you have the correct space time coordinates, and then transfer the mind of a dying person into that new body. Alex Furlong has just died in a spectacular race car crash, but wakes up in the future after being brought there at the time of his death by a power hungry businessman who wants his body. There are strong performances from everyone in the cast but the best out of all of them is Mick Jagger's part. Jagger as the relentless villain here shows how much he can truly act and carry a major role throughout the film. Up against the likes of Anthony Hopkins and Emilio Estevez, who are the two main adversaries, he shows that he belongs in the company of Hollywood's echelon of actors. The action sequences are well placed and keep a fast pace that goes throughout the film and never lets up until the end.
I enjoy this movie for a number of different reasons but the top one is that it's a fun ride and you could see so many possibilities of where the story could go from the end of the film. Since this story takes place in the future you would think that it would be decades down the road, but when the movie was made it was 1991and the future here is 2009, so isn't great that in two years we'll have all this technology to help screw us up even more. But seriously if you've never seen this film, or haven't seen it in a long time, check it out, it will bring back some fond memories and you'll see these actors in the prime of their careers.