Synopsis
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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Cast
- Emilio EstevezAlex Furlong
- Mick JaggerVictor Vacendak
- Rene RussoJulie Redlund
- Anthony HopkinsIan McCandless
- Jonathan BanksMark Michelette
- David JohansenBrad Carter
- Amanda PlummerNun
- Frankie FaisonEagle Man
- Wilbur FitzgeraldEarnhart
- Esai MoralesRipper
Recommendations
- 63
Boston Globe
There are two entertaining small characters in Freejack - Amanda Plummer as a gun-toting nun and Johansen as Estevez's exploitive pal. As the lead, Estevez is appealing, if bland. He takes his future shocks in stride. [18 Jan 1982, p.12] - 50
Austin Chronicle
The film is fun to watch, but you never emotionally buy into the story or its world, and when you leave the theatre, they're gone. There's a lot to this speedy little complex science fiction adventure but what's missing is imagination. - 42
Entertainment Weekly
The trouble with low-rent science-fiction movies is that beneath all the futuristic gimcrackery — the video phones and laser guns and hyperspace leaps, the obligatory time-travel setups — you realize, at some point, that you’re watching a routine urban chase thriller: Lethal Weapon 2000. For most of its running time, Freejack bounces and sputters along atop the usual action- movie chassis. - 40
Los Angeles Times
The film’s premise is promising but undeveloped. - 33
Entertainment Weekly
Directed by Geoff Murphy, Freejack is rife with run-of-the-mill action sequences and glaring inconsistencies. - 30
The New York Times
The film's frequently dark, grimy look and such digressions as a demonstration of how to eat river rat will appeal chiefly to those who like their science fiction on the squalid side. - 30
Time Out
Whenever things get boring, which is often, the double-crossing factor is increased, which complicates the plot without adding substance to the two-dimensional characters or to the mechanical suspense. - 20
Empire
Indeed, the only bright spot in the film is Amanda Plummer — the wacky object of Robin Williams' desire in The Fisher King — with a brief but memorable cameo here as a futuristic nun who swears like a trooper, carries around a rifle and thinks turning the other cheek is kicking a guy in the balls.
