Frequency (New Line Platinum Series)
- Time TalkersOnce you get over the plot device that drives this movie, you'll find a surprisingly interesting and intriguing story.
A son talks to his father 30 years into the past via a ham radio that is transmitting thru time due to an atmospheric disturbance.
Unlike many movies where glitches in time can cause the past to change, and people are wary of that, the idea of not altering the past doesn't even come up in this film.
Can the son, by talking to his father in the past, save his father's life? His mother's life? Stop a serial killer? You'll find out, in a very well acted and suspenseful movie that keeps you on the edge of your seat and keeps you guessing how the meddling in time is going to next effect events.
The ending is satisfying on two different levels. Just watch and enjoy.
Rating:
- A classicI saw this movie years ago, with a date. This movie is about a young teenage boy who lived without a Father. All he knew was that his Father was murdered. Later,he accidently discovers a way to go through time, by sports. This is how he discovers his Fathers killer. At the end of this movie, even my date was crying. That is how good this movie is.
Rating:
- Weird!This is about the most peculiar movie I have ever seen. Just weird. For those who loved it so much, I don't get it. For the few that hated it, I don't get that either. I am truly at a loss for words about this one. So I'll just leave it at that. *Still shaking my head.*
Rating:
- frequencyIt is a feel good movie. As a licensed amateur radio operator I saw a
few flaws, but enjoyed the movie. I missed parts of it when it was on television,
so I bought my own copy.
Rating:
- Wish Fulfillment in an Entirely Entertaining FilmHaving advanced degrees in neither Physics nor Metaphysics, I accept entirely the possibility that all the events transcribed in this satisfying opus could have happened and may well happen in the future. With the exception of the quite prosaic mode of communication between generations, all the action is a matter of everyday occurrences carried out in everyday style. The success of Director and Cast in maintaining that spirit of ordinariness is one of the two chief elements in carrying the day for the film. The second, even more important, is the prayerful wish fulfillment provided by the fundamentallyritualistic character of the film, that death does not sever the connection of generations and that nobody truly dies. Whatever the secular character of our minds there is always lurking at those deepest level of the human psyche the need to believe that neither we nor our loved ones die. It is at that level, through the fine work of the cast and the creators, that people felt much of their pleasure in the film.
Maybe not! At any rate, it is a film redolent of all those in movie history which have sought to convey the message that time and death can be defeated; it does a good job for what it seeks to be....something not quite as dramatically penetrating as Hamlet.
