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Deja Vu
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| Part No: | B00005JPD0 |
| Manufacturer: | Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone |
| MFG Part: | 786936705270 |
| Customer Rating: | 4.0 / 5.0 |
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Using a top secret government device, an FBI agent travels back in time to prevent a terrorist attack.
In his most effective thriller since
Enemy of the State, Tony Scott makes time travel seem plausible. It helps that his New Orleans hero, ATF agent Doug Carlin (Denzel Washington in his third go-round with the director), spends more time in the present than the past. In order to catch a terrorist, FBI Agent Pryzwarra (Val Kilmer) invites Carlin to join forces. They have the technology to see the past. He has the expertise to interpret the data. Unfortunately, the bomb has already gone off and hundreds of ferry passengers have died. Then there's the body of a beautiful woman, Claire Kuchever (Paula Patton,
Idlewild), that turns up in the vicinity of the blast. Evidence indicates she was killed beforehand. Since the FBI enables him to observe Claire prior to her murder, Carlin gets to know what she was like and finds himself falling in love. He becomes convinced that the only way to solve the case--and prove her innocence--is to travel to the past. But as Pryzwarra's colleague, Denny (Adam Goldberg), argues, "You cannot go back in time. It's physically impossible." Or so he says.
Déjà Vu is constructed around a clever script and executed by a top-notch cast, notably Washington, Patton, and an eerie Jim Caviezel (miles away from
Passion of the Christ). In shedding the excesses of recent years--the sadism of
Man on Fire and weirdness of Tarantino favorite
Domino--Scott re-affirms his rep as one of the action movie's finest practitioners.
--Kathleen C. Fennessy
| 5 stars! 5 stars! | 2010-07-17 | 5 / 5 |
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So, I'm 4 years late seeing this movie, but it is just as the cover said, "explosive intriguing thrill"! Just last night I watched Man on Fire, and while it was a great movie, Deja Vu is leaps and bounds better imo! What would you do if you could go into the past and change something?
Wow!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Different and intriguing | 2010-07-06 | 5 / 5 |
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This isn't an overly deep movie, but it deals with issues of time travel, causality, determinism, destiny, limits of science, and multiple universes in a manner which I found both new and intriguing. The science is surely flawed in ways that a cosmologist would be quick to point out, but any such flaws aren't glaring enough to ruin the movie. Related to this, the time travel aspect created the usual logical paradoxes (if not outright contradictions), but they weren't severe enough to render the plot incoherent, and I like the way the movie kept me trying to figure out what was going on and what might happen next, right up to the very end.
Regarding the acting, as always, the character portrayed by Denzel Washington comes across as smart and commanding. I can't recall Denzel ever having disappointed me. I suppose Val Kilmer was also OK, though his role was very minor and dispensable - probably just there to help bring in revenue. The other actors were also adequate, except that the character representing the co-star's father was implausibly unemotional, whereas the co-star herself was pretty good (and pretty too).
Overall, I recommend this movie to anyone interested in an action-packed detective movie which covers some rather intriguing themes. Though it won't become a classic, this movie was still entertaining enough to warrant 5 stars in my book. |
| Very Entertaining | 2010-04-27 | 4 / 5 |
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| Very entertaining with Washington in one of his better roles, great movie, lots of action and thrills! |
| Love the movie | 2010-03-14 | 5 / 5 |
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| I really enjoyed this movie. I love these movies which could happen in real life, but then have a twist you did not see coming. |
| Why I became a Denzel Washington fan | 2010-02-17 | 5 / 5 |
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| Oh, no. I've seen this movie dozens of times on cable before picking up the dvd for nine dollars at Target. I bought Inside Man, Training Day, Man on Fire on dvd and I sat through a bunch of his other movies on cable because of Deja Vu. I've been pwned! This movie is so charming, New Orleans looks great, the score, the dialogue, the casting choices all contribute to the moral viewpoint of the story about defeating a cowardly mass murderer. |
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