As I have been generally displeased with the choices of movies that Hollywood has decided to give us within the last 6 months or so, I didn't think that Frequency, a self-professed sci-fi movie, would be something that I would want to watch. I hadn't really heard anything about it except that it was science fiction and it was supposed to be comparable to The Sixth Sense. I was blown away by this movie.
In Frequency, Dennis Quaid plays a fireman in the year 1969. His son, a police officer played by Jim Caviezel, lives in the year 1999 in the same house that his father had lived before he died in a fire. Caviezel finds an old radio and decides to turn it on.
Because of the aurora borealis and sun spot positioning, Caviezel is able to reach his father during a time in which Caviezel himself is only a boy. When they realize what is happening, Caviezel tells his father about the fire that he was to die in the next day, and consequently saves his life by telling him what not to do. The course of events that would follow are all changed by the fact that his father is not dead.
I don't want to get into much more detail than that, because the surprises in this movie are amazing. At times the events are predictable, but the shock factor overall was way up there.
Frequency is the ideal movie for just about anyone. There wasn't an overall sci-fi feel to the movie, and there were minimal science fiction special effects. A serial murderer in the plot adds a mystery motif to the movie, and the drama involved is absolutely amazing. The plot will keep you on the edge of your seat at all times.
The movie made me cry, but I'm an easy crier. The daddy's girl (or boy) will absolutely love this movie because the relationships in the plot are very well-developed. The emotional attachment between Quaid's character and Caviezel's character is obvious from the very beginning of the movie. Quaid was an essential asset to the movie, as his acting was probably the most convincing of his career.
Frequency was an easy movie to watch. I thought at first when Quaid and his screen wife were dancing in the kitchen to Elvis' Suspicious Minds that it might get a little cheesy, but the cornier aspects of the movie even became touching. The plot flowed fairly well and I didn't catch any mistakes in the past-present comparison. I give major props to the people who made this movie because they managed to make it amazingly powerful with very little offensive language or violence.
I'd recommend this movie to anyone who likes detective movies or cop shows or anything like that, because that was what the majority of the movie was about. I'd also recommend it to anyone who likes tearjerkers. The acting was convincing and every emotion seemed genuine. The plot doesn't focus too much on the details of the past/present situation; they don't go into horrid detail about the physics of it. The plot does, however, make the situations seem believable. It was easy to follow, and I have a feeling that kids 10 and up would still be entertained, if they're not especially squeamish about what little violence there is.
The guys will like the fire and the murder and the cop stuff, the girls will like the romance and the mother-father, father-son, mother-son relationships. There really is something for everyone, because something different is always going on. I hate giving movies 5-star ratings, but even though I thought this movie wasn't my thing, it changed my mind quickly. Frequency will make you call your dad right after you step out of the theater.
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