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A time travel movie in which nobody goes anywhere!

I mean, anywhen.

And yet it’s packed with tense moments and wild situations which could only happen when someone is fiddling with the timelilne, changing the past just a little . . . and therefore chaning the future . . . a lot!
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Frequency (2000)

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A Tale of Time Travel via communications equipment — specifically a ham radio. In 1999 a cop named John (Tim Caviezel) gets on his family's old ham radio and makes contact with his firefighter father Frank (Dennis Quaid) in 1969.

The two don't know, at first, who each is speaking to, but John quickly figures it out. In the original timeline, Frank had died in a fire the next day in 196. But thanks to John's brief warning, Frank survives by going left instead of his original instinct of going right.

However, there are new problems. In the altered timeline, Frank visits his wife (Elizabeth Mitchell) right after surviving the fire. She works as a nurse in a hospital, and she saves the life of a serial killer who was injured in the fire.

In the new timeline, she is one of numerous new victims of this killer, killed in less than a week's time in 1969, while Frank dies of lung cancer in 1989. John must now instruct his father on what he knows of this mysterious killer so that Frank can save the woman they both love.

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This was an inventive, clever thriller & sci-fi feature, though it couldn't retain all the consistencies required to make all the complex time travel changes viable.

At one point, a change in the past takes place, thereby changing all subsequent history, but John continues to sit in the exact same spot, speaking with the exact same two individuals that he had been speaking to before the change. I guess that the writers and filmmakers didn't adhere to the "Butterfly Effect" theory in time travel, which I always thought made sense.

BoG's Score: 7 out of 10



BoG
Galaxy Overlord Galactus
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)