Product: Frequency (2000)
Rating: 5.0
Intriguing and suspenseful movie
What if you could change the past? Fireman, John Sullivan did not die in a warehouse fire because of information from his son in the future. John is a fireman, who takes high risks to save people, in the first scene where John saves a group of workers trapped under a leaking fuel tank; the fuel tanker accident takes place at a road construction project, the tanker is about to explode, electric wires threaten to ignite the fuel, and John must pry open a steel door and carry injuried man out, who later manages to start running just before the explosion. How does a injured man manage to run out just before the explosion? John hero courage and valor allow him to escape death from a exploding fuel tanker.It would seem at first time modification would bring a happy ending, however, the paradox of changing the past to improve the future leaves one reflecting on the complex of time and space. The movie has some Ham radio humor, as John says, "we must be talking of the mother of all sun spots." In order to go back in time frequency of the radio waves would have to exceed the speed of light. It seems the radio wave enters a worm hole through a sun spot and emerge out the sunspot in a different time. So, if space time could wrap around on its self then traveling along the course would take the person back and orth from the past to the future and the future to the past. The irony of the thought being that the events in the past and future could change the space time topology.John does not die in the warehouse fire; John manages to find a grain slide and escape down it into the bay below; John loves his wive and wants to see her immediately; John visits his wife, a nurse, at the hospital; if he had died, she would not have been at the hospital; as, a result she saves a serial killers live, Jack; John Jr realizes the past has changed an made the future worst; Jack in the future increased his killings from three to ten; John Jr tells his father they must stop the killer to save the mother's life; John Jr discovers that the killer Jack killed his mother a nurse; John Jr discloses the address and name of the first victim; John is discovered by Jack and loses in a fight with Jack and Jack steals his drivers license; John Jr, uses a finger left by Jack on John's wallet; the finger print is traced to Jack, a dirty cop; Jack has been living off disablity and stacking nurses; John can not stop Jack and Jack kills the first victim and when John arrives an eye witness places him at the crime scene; John predicts the outcome of the mets game to his black cop friend; John's wife arrives and the black cop takes her aside to watch the game and tell her John is a suspect in the killings; this gives Jack a chase to question John at gun point; Jack wants to know how John knows about him and tries to kill John at the police station; Jack is interrupted by a fellow officer; this give John a chance to improvise a defense using wires from the fuse box and airconditioning unit; John manages to electrocute Jack with the wires, start the fire alarms, and manages to escape; John reverse the tide by gaining access to information about Jack's residence from information in his wallet; Jack discovers John in his apartment and the shooting starts; Jack chases John and they end up fighting in the water, John takes a steel bolt to Jacks head and it seems Jack is dead; John Jr does not understand why the mothers picture has not been restored and tells John something is wrong when suddenly Jack appears in both time periods and attacks; because John had fixed the ham radio his tools were on the desk and because he was alive, John manages to escape; John shoots off Jacks right hand which helps John Jr escape the attack by Jack in the future; and the best part is everyone made a ton of money off Yahoo.