Movie Review: Frequency

Story: Once again I am bound by the reviewer's honor code to reveal my personal bias's before this review begins.

1. I am crazy about firemen. In last years' NYC Marathon our overall time was effected by all of the photos I stopped to take with the many NYC firefighters who came out to support us Marathoners.

2. I love Elvis - been to Graceland twice.

3. I am a sci-fi, black hole, worm hole, time/space anomaly freak.

And so I was hooked by this film's premise within the first 10 minutes by the dramatic opening big fire/hero scene, an Elvis recording (on a 45 rpm no less) along with a bit of an impersonation of the King, and the topper was the aurora borealis light show over the triboro bridge that allows a father, long dead to communicate with his now grown son 30 years in the future via a ham radio. The first 45 minutes of the film were terrific. The movie starts to fall apart when they throw in an old serial killer (although that is another favorite topic of mine), too much sappiness and plot twists. For those who love the '69 Amazin' Mets, can bare giant leaps of faith in the plot (and have a semblance of understand of time/space stuff a la Steven Hawking) this film directed by Gregory Hoblit (Primal Fear) with a story by Toby Emmerich will have a fun ride. And for anyone out there who has always had a yearning to have just one more chance to speak to a dearly departed family member or friend you will probably shed a tear or two. Or you can wait and probably see it on video by the end of the summer.

Acting: Dennis Quaid (my two favorite films of his are The Big Easy and Great Balls of Fire) makes a wonderful Dad, fireman, hero and should be in more films. Jim Caviezel (The Thin Red Line) as the son, is so handsome I wasn't paying much attention to anything else about him.

Pets: One sweet Dalmatian named Elvis (need I say more)?

Visual Art: None

Soundtrack: Loud and sometimes funny

Theater Audience: Two groups of 20 something young men who took up more seats than necessary because they all had to sit one seat apart from each other, 5 middle aged men ( who were alone), 2 women of a certain age (who sat next to each other) and me and my friend Cococarrol (we sat next to each other, too). By the way, Carol did not like the film. The aurora borealis over the triboro bridge was just too much for her.

Sappy Factor: 8

Quirky Meter: 2

Tissue Usage: A few tears

Oscar Worthy: No

Length: 2 hours

LOBO HOWLS: 6