Steineded How sad is this?

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Fluke_Skywalker Plot; During an atmospheric anomaly, a man finds that he is able to communicate w/his Father 30 years in the past via a ham radio.Like so many movies that deal w/altering the past, there are a host of logical faults and a truckload of bad science here, but I'm a forgiving sort of they're in the service of a compelling story, and for the most part that's true here. There's a domino effect to a decision that one of our characters makes that sends the story into a reasonably compelling, tense, if not quite taut, thriller direction. But what holds it together is the relationship and the performances of the two leads (Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel). Despite their interactions coming across the ages, theirs is a bond that feels real, and as a result I cared, even when the flaws in the story might have otherwise made me not.

lbsherma Re-viewing this after its first run in 2000, due to the new (2016) network version, I am even more impressed. After too many sloppy-script films of late, too many gimmicky and overdone-effects film, Frequency comes back as a tight and very involving film. Dennis Quaid is a brave NYC firefighter who has been killed rescuing a runaway girl from a burning warehouse, while the Amazing Mets stun everyone with a World Series victory in October 1969. Jim Caviezel (The Thin Red Line, Person of Interest) plays his son, now a cop thirty years later. Somehow linked to the Aurora Borealis in both time frames, the two make contact with each other across years by Dad's ham radio. The son is able to prevent his father's death, but changing the past also has other consequences which continue to get more complex. Family dedication with many twists! All of the major actors do a stellar job, and the tension is powerful but not pushy. See this one...

vincentlynch-moonoi There are others, but there are 2 film themes that come up over and over in films -- amnesia and time travel -- and almost never work. Amnesia only worked well in one film that I remember -- Ronald Colman's "Random Harvest". "Frequency" is not about amnesia. It is about time travel. And this is that rare movie about time travel that actually works and is rather engrossing.One reason that this works is because they don't try to apply the theme to world-wide events. Instead, they focus on a father and his son over about 3 decades. The father a fire fighter, the son a policeman. As in common with such themes, every time the father and son intervene to change family history, unintended things also happen. So as they fix one thing, something else goes wrong, and then that needs to be fixed. And it all involves trying to solve some serial murders that happened years ago. And how do the father and son communicate over all those years -- the same ham radio that seems to derive special powers due to the aurora. A little far-fetched? Of course. But it works, and it works well. In fact, the way things happen is rather ingenious. And there are points where you may find yourself sitting on the edge of your chair.The father here is played by Dennis Quaid. Typically, I can take him or leave him. But he's very, very good here. The son is played by Jim Caviezel, who is equally as good as Quaid. Andre Braugher is a police detective who gets caught in the middle of a murder investigation that appears to incriminate his friend. Everyone else does their jobs, although none play parts big enough to deserve special mention.This film is done well enough that even though you realize the story is impractical, you find yourself thinking -- yes, that makes sense.

SnoopyStyle It's 1969 and a serial killer is loose. Frank Sullivan (Dennis Quaid) is a risk-taking firefighter. He's happily married to Jules (Elizabeth Mitchell) with a son John. In 1999, John Sullivan (Jim Caviezel) is a hard-drinking cop and his girlfriend leaves him. His best friend is still Gordo (Noah Emmerich). They find his dad's Ham radio. When he starts it up, the strange atmospheric conditions connect the son to the father 30 years apart. John warns his father of his impending death and saves him. However it sets off changes that includes the murder of his mother along with more nurses by the serial killer Nightingale. John uses his police files to guide his father to track down the killer.It's a terrific premise. There is a change in the middle with the introduction of the serial killer story. It probably needs to get there a little sooner to change gear. The thriller is actually quite compelling despite splitting the time and the two main actors. It's able to connect the two sides very effectively. Both Quaid and Caviezel are able to keep the tension high.