Deja Vu (2006)

Deja-Crap

This movie had me going right up until the final act, and then I watched it spiral out of control, as story and acting took a terrible u-turn and crashed on landing.
Now I'm not a big Denzel fan, but for the first 2/3rd of the film, he actually did a pretty good job. But whether it was the writer or the director(horrid want-to-be as good as my brother, Tony Scott), the last 30 minutes left me and my girlfriend shouting at the screen, "Move your butt, aren't there people to save!".
It's been awhile since I've viewed a movie where you can actually pinpoint the moment where everything derails, and all concept of time and logic is lost in the ashes.
Avoid this one. August 31, 2008

Deja Vu

Terrific movie, One you can watch 2 or 3 times and still see something new. August 31, 2008

Best Blu-Ray in my Library

The Blu-ray release of Deja Vu has become my favorite DVD in my collection. I won't discuss the movie itself, but the "Surveillance Window" in the Special Features. This is combination director's/writer's commentary combined with seamless "how we did this" vignettes. I would get this before any other Blu-ray purchase. August 25, 2008

Disappointing "science/fiction" thriller

I was expecting a lot more from Tony Scott and this "science/fiction" movie. I really enjoy Denzel Washington, but this plot was just too confusing and implausible. I had to watch it a few times to try to "make it fit," but I still didn't understand the ending. Too many things just didn't make sense. Although the acting was fine and the premise had great possibilities, the screenwriter couldn't quite put it all together. It wasn't a very good job of either "science" or "fiction." Don't bother to watch this unless you're just dying to see Denzel in another movie. August 16, 2008

Time Travel/Action film with some inconsistencies

This movie has two things I like in movies: Denzel Washington and time travel. I figured it wasn't a can't miss. Indeed, the movie itself is quite entertaining. Denzel plays an ATF (Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms) officer who is brought into to help investigate a bombing. He is introduced to some very high tech government surveillance which turns out to be a bit of a time-warp/travel mechanism. Needless to say, high jinx ensue and everyone has a good time.

This movie would have received a 4 out of 5 rating but the time travel elements bothered me. They just didn't work. They even tried to go over time travel theories in the movie, including the parallel universe theory first introduced to me in Back to the Future. Back to the Future had it down to a science, but I think this movie gets it wrong. When Denzel starts investigating the case, he comes across clues that are there only because he has already altered the past. But these clues should only appear in the parallel universe in which the past is altered. This may have been plausible if they stuck with the "non-parallel universe" theory, but it didn't work because eventually they do stop the bombing (not a big giveaway), which diverges from the non-parallel universe. To put it in Back to the Future terms, it would be like Marty was living in the altered 1985 in which he had confident, capable parents before he went back to 1955 to take the actions that caused them to be confident and capable people.

But still some pretty good entertainment. A little violent though. July 25, 2008

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