Morgan Bell
REVIEW: Déjà Vu
May 9th 2008 14:13
Directed: Tony Scott (Domino, Enemy of the State, The Fan)
Written: Terry Rossio (Shrek, Pirates of the Caribbean) and Bill Marsilii
Starring: Denzel Washington (Training Day, Fallen, The Bone Collector, The Pelican Brief, John Q), Paula Patton (Hitch), Val Kilmer (The Saint, The Doors, Tombstone), James Caviezel (Pay It Forward, Frequency, The Passion of the Christ)
Doug Carlin (Washington) is an american ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms department) special agent travelling back in time to try and prevent a terrorist attack and save a woman called Claire (Patton) from being murdered in the process. This movie has nothing to do with the actual sensation of déjà vu except to suggest that perhaps travelling back to a time where your younger self exists may (unexplainably) produce some shared consciousness of the two versions of yourself that may give the younger one a sense of familiarity with events about to occur . . . *sigh* . . . I always have problems with these time travel movies, the concept of time travel is not logical and im yet to see a film director yet who can either explain the concept satisfactorily or at the very least glaze over it neatly enough so that we are not distracted from the other elements of the film . . . maybe Terminator . . . but regardless this whole movie is pretty poor, the bad guy/terrorist (Caviezel) has unbelievably flimsy motives, the terrorist target is a cruise boat full of smiling navy officers and their innocent families so it is revoltingly patriotic, the technology and how they stumbled upon it and how only a small team of misfits is aware of it or entrusted to run it is nothing short of ridiculous . . . but if you want to see Denzel Washington flirt with a pretty girl with his shirt off and vacantly observe a few cool explosions than this is your movie . . . id put it in the same basket as Armageddon, Pearl Harbour and Independence Day . . . maximum enjoyment can only be gained by not thinking about it at all!
Written: Terry Rossio (Shrek, Pirates of the Caribbean) and Bill Marsilii
Starring: Denzel Washington (Training Day, Fallen, The Bone Collector, The Pelican Brief, John Q), Paula Patton (Hitch), Val Kilmer (The Saint, The Doors, Tombstone), James Caviezel (Pay It Forward, Frequency, The Passion of the Christ)
Doug Carlin (Washington) is an american ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms department) special agent travelling back in time to try and prevent a terrorist attack and save a woman called Claire (Patton) from being murdered in the process. This movie has nothing to do with the actual sensation of déjà vu except to suggest that perhaps travelling back to a time where your younger self exists may (unexplainably) produce some shared consciousness of the two versions of yourself that may give the younger one a sense of familiarity with events about to occur . . . *sigh* . . . I always have problems with these time travel movies, the concept of time travel is not logical and im yet to see a film director yet who can either explain the concept satisfactorily or at the very least glaze over it neatly enough so that we are not distracted from the other elements of the film . . . maybe Terminator . . . but regardless this whole movie is pretty poor, the bad guy/terrorist (Caviezel) has unbelievably flimsy motives, the terrorist target is a cruise boat full of smiling navy officers and their innocent families so it is revoltingly patriotic, the technology and how they stumbled upon it and how only a small team of misfits is aware of it or entrusted to run it is nothing short of ridiculous . . . but if you want to see Denzel Washington flirt with a pretty girl with his shirt off and vacantly observe a few cool explosions than this is your movie . . . id put it in the same basket as Armageddon, Pearl Harbour and Independence Day . . . maximum enjoyment can only be gained by not thinking about it at all!
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