Director: Geoff Murphy
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Action
From the novel Imortality, Inc. by Robert Sheckley
Released: 1992
Runtime: 110 minutes
Freejack, based on the novel Immortality, Inc is part of a long line of future distopia movies. Stylistically and philosophically , it is not much different from Bladerunner, The Running Man or Escape From New York. The 21st Century looks bleak and dangerous. The ozone has crashed, everything people eat is killing them. Society has been divided into the very rich and the very poor. Money provides a very comfortable buffer.
Mick Jagger plays Victor Vacendak a body jacker. Anthony Hopkins hires Mick to fetch him a new body. The new body belongs to Emilio Estevez. In the 21st Century, the rich have developed a way to go back in time and fetch healthy bodies to replace their dying ones. Estevez is a race car driver who died in a car crash. Mick manages to pull (jack) the body out of the car but something goes wrong. Estevez wakes up with his mind fully functioning.
Before the doctors can wipe out the old mind, they are attacked. Estevez manages to get away thus becoming a 'freejack'. It takes him a little while to comprehend that 18 years has passed and his fiancée (Rene Russo in what might be her first 'girlfriend' role) is now a very rich woman. Estevez must convince Russo he really is her long lost love before someone can collect he $15 million prize on his head.
If you are an Emilio Estevez fan, you'll probably like this movie. Estevez doesn't stray far from his all American bad-things-happen-to-nice-people geek. If you're a Mick Jagger fan you'll want to see it even though Mick is very wooden. Vacendak is supposed to be evil, money grubbing and unfeeling. Mick tries to be cool (maybe a little Darth Vaderish) but he ends up more like Pinocchio.
Nobody in this film gives a great performance. Anthony Hopkins could have phoned his part in. He shows nothing of the talent he is capable of. Russo looks pretty and doesn't have much to do except stand by her man. Jerry Hall has a cameo as a reporter who finds Estevez in a bar and swoops in for an exclusive. She really doesn't do anything except look pretty. The scene starts with her doing a 'lifestyle' interview. Once she realizes who she's got she shows she's turned serious by pinning her hair up. That move signifies the depth of the
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