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It's 1969 in Queens, NY and the Miracle Mets are set to win the World Series, but John Sullivan's (James Caviezel also in The Thin Red Line) dad isn't supposed to live to find this out. You see Frank Sullivan (Dennis Quad from Any Given Sunday) is supposed to die fighting a warehouse fire for the Fire Department of New York during game two of the series. But instead of that, Frank accidentally contacts his son John 30 years in the future via a ham radio and a monster sunspot. Of course at first both thinks somebody is playing a sick game on the other, but eventually they learn to trust that each other is telling the truth. So Frank doesn't die, but that causes lots of other problems, including the death of John's mom, Julia (Elizabeth Mitchell) as part of the Nightingale Murders. So now the two, Frank and John, have to try and catch the killer before he gets to their woman. John uses his detective skills he has learned as cop for the NYPD, while Frank relies on faith in his son and the ham radio. Of course nobody believes the two are talking through time, so they get resistance on both ends from their family friend Satch (André Braugher, City of Angels). The two eventually track down who the killer is, but the two are then faced with the difficulty of proving it to the authorities, plus the fact that the perpetrator is a cop doesn't help. So the race is on to stop the killer from getting mom/wife before the sunspot that is linking 1969 to 1999 ceases. Throughout the film you have Gordo Hersch (Noah Emmerich) providing the comedic relief, first as the little redhead kid, then as the immature grown-up. Frequency is directed by Gregory Hoblit, while Tobias Emmerich wrote the screenplay for the PG-13 film. Others in the movie are Shawn Doyle as Jack Shepard, Jordan Bridges, Melissa Errico, Daniel Henson, Stephen Joffe, Brian Greene, Frank McAnulty, and even Dick Cavett. I enjoyed the first 110 minutes of the 117 minutes possible. Allowing four minutes for the credits leaves three minutes that I actually disliked. The plot and story were great, as was how it ended. But the last three minutes of reminiscing was pretty pointless, and unnecessary. Because of that, Frequency cannot, and will not, receive a perfect score (not that it would have anyway). Instead this thriller will receive eight couches on the old scale of ten for its About-Movies.com rating. Till next time. Last updated: Thursday, March 20, 2008 02:49:37 AM |
