Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
A 1939 test pilot asks his best friend to use him as a guinea pig for a cryogenics experiment. Daniel McCormick wants to be frozen for a year so that he doesn't have to watch his love lying in a coma. The next thing Daniel knows is that he's been awoken in 1992.
Forever Young is a pleasant but formulaic romantic fantasy that leans heavily on the fish-out-of-water and suspended animation tropes without bringing much fresh to either. Mel Gibson is charming and carries the film on likability alone, elevating what is otherwise a fairly predictable script. The cinematography is competent but unremarkable, typical of early-90s studio product. The premise, while appealing on paper, is executed in a fairly by-the-numbers way with convenient plot mechanics. The ending has genuine emotional warmth and delivers the sentimental payoff the film promises, making it the modest highlight of an otherwise middling affair.