In 2000, Gregory Hoblit created a peculiar fantasy work starring Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel.
The stories of travels in the time They have given us many joys over the years, but in the end everything usually centers on someone traveling to the past or the future and what happens from there. In the case of ‘Frequency’a film available in the HBO Max catalog in Spain, an ingenious approach is chosen that is key to giving a more exciting touch to what it tells us.
A unique film
One of the most curious aspects of ‘Frequency’ is that it is a science fiction film around the idea of time travel but without technically any in all of its footage. His story revolves around a police officer marked by the death of his father 30 years ago who one day manages to contact him in the past through amateur radio equipment. And things will only get more complicated from there.
Behind ‘Frequency’ we have Gregory Hoblita director whose career focused for many years on television but who in the late 90s enjoyed some popularity on the big screen thanks to titles such as ‘The two faces of the truth’ and ‘Fallen’. Here he returns to the thriller, but entrusts much of the weight of the film to the work of some inspired Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezelsince the bond that manages to establish between father and son in fiction propels forward a film that in itself could have been an entertaining mystery and little more.
This leads to ‘Frequency’ having more dramatic depth than expected, which also helps give a unique touch to the effective script of Toby Emmerich, where there is also room to address the theme of serial killers without it being out of place. The result is certainly not excellent, but it is a film that fell into relatively undeserved oblivion – it has been out of print in physical format for years and there was no trace of it on platforms – and that I hope will reach more viewers now than since 2023 It is available in streaming.
By the way, if it leaves you wanting more, there was no sequel, but there was a short-lived television adaptation in the United States released in 2016, another Korean series released that same year and a more Japanese one from 2018 that had a continuation in the form of movie three years later. And it is not difficult to understand that so many people saw the great possibilities in what ‘Frequency’ proposes.
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