In the future of 2009, Earth is a disease infested, polluted mess of a hellhole and especially New York City where this all takes place. Okay, so some things never change.

Anyway, if you've got enough coin you can hire "Bonejackers" to snatch you a nice clean body from the past to download your consciousness into before you die.

Anthony Hopkins is one of the richest guys of the era. Not only that but he owns the company that does the mind transfers with a machine called the Spiritual Switchboard. And he has the hots for one of his female employees but she's thirty years younger than him.

Hopkins' has hired Mick Jagger, the King of Bonejackers, to fetch him a new body. Hopkins has already croaked and his consciousness was downloaded into a computer. The only problem is if it's done this way is there isn't much time to spare.

His body of choice is Emilio Estevez, a race car driver who is teleported into the future a split second before he dies in a spectacular crash. Emilio is/was the boyfriend of the gal that Hopkins has the hots for. He figures that if he's in Emilio's body the babe will immediately fall for him. Cool eh?

The victim is supposed to arrive brain dead but something goes wrong and Emilio turns up a little bit dead but fully conscious. When one of the "Doctors" tries to perform a lobotomy on him Emilio decides to get his butt the hell outta there. The Doctor ends up giving himself an accidental lobotomy. He takes off with a hail of bullets and ray gun things flying all around him. Emilio is now a Freejack.

He tracks down his old buddy who turns him in the minute he's not looking. He gets away and visits his girlfriend who thinks he's an imposter and turns him in. Poor old Emilio just plain ain't having a very good day, is he?

The chase is on and the rest of the movie is pretty well a hide 'n' seek 'n' chase game between Estevez and Jagger with some pretty good car chases and shoot outs. Really sappy ending though. I don't mind this one even though just about every other review I've ever read trashes it. Maybe it's because I'm a Stones fan.

My only real problem with this movie, and a lot of others too, is this:
In all these near future pictures the atmosphere and water and everything else is always polluted. There's always shoulder to shoulder people dressed in rags mulling around the streets doing absolutely nothing, the Goodwill stores must love it when these guys come to town. All the buildings are totally dilapidated with the exception of that one shining, gleaming, towering ediface that the evil rotten bastards occupy. There's always stupid looking futuristic cars weaving in and out of the rusted and burned out skeletons of older abandoned cars. I don't have enough fingers to count how many flicks I've seen with this same crap going on. Is this the only way to portray the future? C'mon Hollywood, it's getting a bit redundant. Have you finally run out of immagination or is it just cheaper to do it this way?