FREEJACK

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STARRING: Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, Rene Russo, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Banks, David Johansen (Buster Poindexter), Amanda Plummer, Grand L. Bush, Frankie Faison, Esai Morales, John Shea

1992, 108 Minutes, Directed by: Geoff Murphy

Description: Bounty hunters from the future raid the present to provide new bodies for the super rich. Prior to a crash, race car driver Alex Furlong (Estevez) is snatched from his cockpit and hurled into the future world of 2009. He's dead. And running for his life. He's a "freejack," a stranger in the strangest of lands. And a relentless "bonejacker" (Jagger) can collect millions bringing him in. — Amazon.com

Action movie based on novel (Immortality Inc.) by sci-fi's funny man Robert Sheckley.

A motor car racer (Emelio Estevez) is miraculously teleported to the future shortly before he is due to die in an automobile accident where his body is to be used as the host for a rich guy (played by Anthony Hopkins). See, all the people of the future's bodies are so polluted that they need somebody with an uncontaminated body from our time to use for these transplants. Estevez escapes and the movie degenerates into a standard chase movie. He is pursued by Mick Jagger who shows that maybe he can maybe sing, but definitely can't act.

Sheckley fans will be disappointed to note that little of the great man's wit and humour makes it to the big screen. This would be an otherwise easily forgettable affair if it wasn't for the songs by then flavour-of-the-month rock group Jesus Jones and the 2001-type trip effects at the end.

By the way, if the people of the future want fresh and uncontaminated bodies to use as hosts (and don't want them to be missed) why don't they grab a few medieval peasants instead?