Product: Frequency (2000)
Rating: 5.0
"Frequency" is emotional and very well-made!
"Frequency", to me, is like two stories in one...the first story is set in 1969 and it describes Frank Sullivan (an outstanding Dennis Quaid), a working-class NY fireman living in Queens with a loving wife (Elizabeth Mitchell) and his son John. The second story is set in 1999, 30 years later. It describes John Sullivan (Jim Caviezel), all grown up and is a police officer, not a firefighter like his father. Basically, John could not get over the fact that Frank, his father, had died in a building fire. John's best friend Gordo (Noah Emmerich) comes across a ham radio inside John's house. The ham radio used to belong to Frank a long time ago, so Gordo urges John to give it a try. And soon enough, the radio works under the different frequencies of the Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis. John could not believe it when he is talking to his father, who's been dead for 30 years. As the film goes on, there is a string of murders that are the work of a serial killer. And John in 1999 and Frank in 1969 must team up to prevent these killings from happening again from the results of 30 years ago. Gregory Hoblit ("Primal Fear", "Fallen") directed this film with perfection all the way! "Frequency" is so entertaining and so thrilling that it will have you asking the question: "What if you could go back in time and change the event that altered your life forever?" This is Dennis Quaid's best performance since "The Big Easy" and "Flesh and Bone". And this is Jim Caviezel's breakout performance in which he did an excellent job. And the DVD version of "Frequency" just couldn't be better, with deleted scenes and more! "Frequency" is truly one of the best sci-fi drama-type films ever made.