Forever young

Year of release : 1992

Run time : 1h42min

Genre : Sci Fi / Romance / Fantasy / Drama

Cast : Mel Gibson, Elijah Wood, Jamie Lee Curtis

It's 1939,and captain Daniel McCormick of the United States Army Air Corps is a test pilot. The first scene establishes him as a good pilot who tests planes and brings them safely down.

Daniel is dating his childhood sweetheart and wants to marry her,but he is nervous about proposing.

On the day he wants to propose but freezes, she gets hit by a car and goes into a coma.

6 months later, she's still in a coma, and Daniel decides to volunteer to be frozen for a year by his scientist friend.

In 1992,two boys who were left alone by the brother of one of them, decide to walk around the army base the brother is working for,and finding a capsule,they start spinning its wheels thinking it's a submarine. The capsule opens,and they find Daniel,frozen in time.

They run scared,telling his brother,but he doesn't believe them.

 

Daniel walks around town,trying to tell the army who he is,but the man he talks to thinks him crazy. He leaves and his path crosses the boys' path again,and ends up living with one of them.

The boy gets attached to him,as he grew up without a father,and he sees him as the father he never had.

Daniel is trying to find out what happened to his friend,thinking his sweetheart dead, and the mother of the boy in which's home he stays in, helps him.

Soon,though,Daniel starts to age,his body trying to catch up with the time he's in.

I don't know why the movie is called Forever Young,as he wasn't forever young, in fact,it felt he lost his life, like,life passed by him,while sleeping in cryo sleep for 53 years!

I found the movie bittersweet,as he didn't live his life,he wasted it asleep,and when he finally woke up,he started aging. He went from youth to old age within a few days,and it felt somehow like he got cheated at life.

That being said,I did enjoy the movie. I liked the colors,the 1930's era the first part of the movie was set in,and then the 1992 era,which seemed better times.

 

The actors were good,especially the kids.

The aging make-up put on Mel Gibson was good.

The first half of the movie I really didn't like the soundtrack,I felt it didn't match. I didn't like the music of the 1930's.

The movie grossed 128 million dollars at the box office, against a budget of 20 million. It got mixed reviews from critics, while CinemaScore audiences gave it an A-, on an A+ to F scale!

The movie was written by J.J. Abrams!

The movie is for rent / sale on the usual platforms, Amazon, AppleTv, Fandango at Home.

Rating : Worth a watch !