Product: Frequency (2000)
Rating: 5.0
Challenging to follow but worth the effort
This is a complex movie, slow-moving in places, which bears careful attention to dialog and details, otherwise you'll be lost -- and you may well still feel lost in places on a first viewing. I have seen it twice and still found myself adrift from time to time. But the premise is so fascinating - parallel time, time paradoxes and so forth, and the execution and acting are so adept, that after a while the film does grab the viewer and doesn't let go. Spending time with it is well worth the effort.A friend of mine, a mystery film aficionado, stated flatly after her first viewing that "Frequency" is the best mystery film she has ever seen. This is a lady who grooves on Hitchcock, Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot and the like and who usually disdains science fiction. High praise for "Frequency" indeed.I could not get into some of the special features on the DVD. I don't know if the problem was with the DVD itself or my DVD player. I wonder if others have had a similar problem.