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Frequency
Back in 2000, I saw the previews for Frequency and thought it sounded interesting, certainly worth a rental someday. Then I totally forgot about it until it randomly popped up on my radar last year reading another movie review. Five years after it first came out, we finally got around to seeing it.
In general, I would say that the movie was a decently executed time travel/mystery movie. It certainly requires you to suspend your disbelief in a lot of ways in order to "buy into" the premise, but if you're like me, that kind of stuff isn't hard to do. As someone who got his degree in physics and who spends a good chunk of his life on computers, you would think I'd be more jaded about the time travel anomalies and plot holes. But I guess when it comes to movies I don't care too much. :-)
The murder mystery aspects of the movie were suspenseful and kept things moving along. They had a great chance at the end to twist things around and create something unexpected, but thanks to some last-minute contrivances, we got the Hollywood happy ending instead. Still, it wasn't enough to ruin the movie. The acting was actually quite good and I felt invested enough in the characters that a happy ending came as a bit of a relief.
Notable cast sighting this time around was James "Jesus" Caviezel playing the son of Dennis Quaid. It's nice to see Dennis Quaid a bit more recently; he had a bit of a hot streak in the late 80's and then went below the radar for a little while.
Overall, I would say an enjoyable movie, but not a particularly outstanding one ... 3/4 stars.