Freejack Movie Review

There is a $15 million bounty on Emilio Estevez's head, placed not by outraged Men at Work viewers, but by a tycoon who wants to achieve immortality by transplanting his deranged mind into Estevez's body. The year is 2009, when such “psychic surgery” is possible. Except that in the polluted future, uncontaminated host bodies are scarce. So scientists reach back to 1991, snatching race car driver Alex Furlong just before a fatal crash. Furlong escapes and the chase is on. Mick Jagger, as the chief bounty-hunting “bone-jacker,” chose an ill-fated vehicle with which to return to the screen after two decades. Rene Russo also stars as the woman Alex left behind, but who 18 years later (she hasn't aged a bit) works for the very corporation hunting him down. A post-Lector Anthony Hopkins lends his freshly minted Oscar stature to the brief role of the tycoon who wants Estevez's body. Amanda Plummer (Honey Bunny in Pulp Fiction) gives another characteristically quirky performance as a groin-kneeing nun: “Our savior never really had to deal with **** like you,” she states. Geoff Murphy also directed This Quiet Earth (not to mention Young Guns 2). Adapted from Robert Sheckley's more highly regarded novel, Immortality Inc.

1992 (R) 110m/C Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, Rene Russo, Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Banks, David Johansen, Amanda Plummer, Grand Bush, Frankie Faison, Esai Morales, John Shea; D: Geoff Murphy; W: Dan Gilroy, Ronald Shusett, Steven Pressfield; M: Trevor Jones, Michael Boddicker. VHS, Beta, LV WAR