It's
Backdraft to the Future when a New York Cop (Jim Caviezel) circa 1999, is able
to communicate with his firefighting father (Dennis Quaid) who is happily living
in the year 1969. We are soon to learn that Quaid is fated to die in an accident
two days hence, and it's the son's quest to alter the course of history by warning
his father of his impending doom via a mysterious old Ham radio.
Frequency
is a nifty thriller from Gregory Hoblit (Primal Fear, Fallen) and although it
does seem to bastardize the concept of time, it manages to entertain if you can
sit back and just take it for what it is.
Quaid
(Any Given Sunday) and Caviezel (The Thin Red Line) are the key. They give outstanding
performances and play the father-son relationship to the tee.
Hoblit
and screenwriter Tobe Emmerich switch gears midway, turning the story into a standard
murder mystery that works because of the time concept gimmickry.
Frequency
tries to fuse the magic of many other films into a fantasy of its own. Although
it's not as witty as Back to the Future, as dangerous as Backdraft, or as American
as Field of Dreams, it is a fun time if you just relax and go along with it.
