Freejack


Freejack is a 1992 science fiction action film directed by Geoff Murphy, starring Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, Rene Russo and Anthony Hopkins. Upon its release in the United States, the film received mostly negative reviews. The screenplay was written by Ronald Shusett and based very loosely on the 1959 novel Immortality, Inc., by Robert Sheckley. Aside from the most basic elements the journey of a modern man into a future where everything is for sale, and the presence of a spiritual switchboard in which souls are suspended the cyberpunk plot bears little resemblance in tone or content to Sheckleys story, where discovery of scientific proof of the afterlife altered societys views of the sanctity of life.

Alex Furlong is a Formula One racer who is about to die in a spectacular 1991 crash when a time machine snatches him from the cockpit and into the 21st century New York City, a futuristic dystopia populated by scavengers and killers. When Furlongs captors are ambushed by a hit squad, Furlong escapes from Victor Vacendak, a hardened mercenary who has snatched him on behalf of the powerful McCandless Corporation. Alexs former fiance Julie Redlund is now an executive at McCandless, handling highstakes mineral negotiations with a rival Japanese firm.Alex spends much time escaping the clutches of Victor, a ruthless pursuer who nevertheless lives by a code of honor, and rekindling his relationship with Julie. Ian McCandless, Julies boss, is revealed to have died and be seeking to put his backedup personality into Furlongs body. However, not only do Alex and Julie have to evade Vacendaks army of security guards and the McCandless Corporation Police forces, they also have to deal with running from the private guards of McCandless corporate X.O., Mark Michellete, who is gunning for McCandless position. Alex cannot trust his old friends from 1991, who are now eager to sell him out. ........

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