This review is not time sensitive, because Frequency was released in 1999. So it's not recent, but I liked it a lot, and I have nothing better to do in an E-block study.
Frequency is a classic tale of good verses evil, father and son, and time travel..... kind of.
The story is about a young man in 1999 Queens who discovers that his radio can allow him to communicate with his dead father from 1969. The guy saves his father by telling him about the fire that killed him, but then they changed the future. Father and son must unite to save their wife/mother from a serial killer!
My one grievance with the movie is that it's really hard to keep track of what timeline is real, because in the movie, once you change something in the past, it immediately affects the future. The main characters are constantly changing the past, so I was never really sure what actually happened at any given time.
Next note, Frequency is a really intelligent movie, there are clock analogies throughout, one is where the kid in 1969 is riding a bike in a circle around his father. There are more, you should look for them yourself.
Also, they do some really interesting detective work. While the dad actively tries to stop the killer in the past, the son (he's a cop) uses his father's knowledge of the past to help catch the killer in 1999. For instance, they know that the killer has touched the dad's wallet, so the son has his dad put the wallet in a plastic bag, and hide it in a place where it won't be touched for thirty years. The son then goes to the place his dad specified, and finds the wallet to get a fingerprint from it.
Frequency is a good action, and time movie, just to clarify now, there isn't actually any time travel, just time-communication. If you like the movies Terminator and Field of Dreams, the you'll love Frequency. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to tell my past self to remember where he put the keys.....
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