2000 · sci-fi · crime · thriller
Frequency
Directed by Gregory Hoblit1h 58m2000
When a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise to a series of brutal murders he and his father must find a way to fix the consequences of altering time.
Our read: Frequency (2000) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive sci-fi · crime · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme sci-fi / crime, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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