GET THE MEAT. On this episode, Gali, Devlin and Patrick are joined all the way from Vancouver by fellow former film school buddy Aidan, who takes a break from his busy schedule as a focus puller & camera department pro to introduce us to the 1992 Sci-Fi curio Freejack, which for some reason was staple viewing in his formative years.

Formula 1 racer and gopher-faced cheeky chap Alex Furlong (Emilio Estevez) wakes up on race day with his fiancee Julie (Rene Russo), unaware that not only does a terrible fiery car accident await him, but so does a bizarre temporal displacement kidnapping/pre-grave robbing of his soon-to-be incinerated body in the second before impact by behelmeted Bonejacker Vacendak (the actual Mick Jagger). Suddenly slung almost 20 years in to the future, Alex awakes in a sketchily drawn sub-Philip K Dick society where the infirm and very wealthy can pluck the nearly-deceased out of their timeline via scientific shenanigans and inhabit their lobotomised bodies in order to bypass age and illness. Now Alex, on the run from his own inhibition as the titular Freejack, tries to: maintain control of his own anatomy; reunite with latter-day corporate go-getter Julie; avoid the attentions of the tank-driving weirdo Vacendak; and uncover the labyrinthine corporate plot of who arranged his jacking that also embroils slimy exec Michelette (Jonathan Banks) and sonorous head honcho McCandless (a clearly contractually-obligated Anthony Hopkins). 

Confused? You will be! First-time viewers Patrick, Devlin and Gali delve in to see why such a deluge of ideas so enraptured a pre-teen Aidan back in his Northumbrian childhood, latching on to such fleeting pleasures as an eccentric turns by lovable 90s weirdo Amanda Plummer and former New York Doll David Johansen, the name Grand L. Bush, and a veritable checklist of corny dystopian tropes under the direction of Rewind alumnus Geoff Murphy (Under Siege 2: Dark Territory).

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