Deja Vu
A decent time travel film that forgets the time travel elements in favour of Tony Scott directed action set pieces. I like the film, but feel like it could have been a little bit more than the sum of its parts.
Washington is sent to investigate a ferry explosion and he impresses some people who are working with a secret machine that can view images from the past. They bring him on board to help find the bomber. Wait a minute, this isn't a machine that let's you view images to the past, it lets you literally see the past!!!
Washington is very likable here and the film manages to balance the sci/fi time travel stuff with action well enough until the action takes over too much. The Caviezel shoot out on the ferry was a little too much.
I like that Washington is initially mislead about the tech at the beginning. It sets up the audience being one step ahead of Washington and it's enjoyable seeing him peel away at what he believes are the lies presented to him. We know the film involves time travel an when his prints are all over her house and the blood is in the trash, we can only assume it belongs to him. So things are still falling in place, can he change it? Apparently yes. But logic gets in the way when you think about it.
The women is dead in the original timeline, so why are his things all at her place? She's on the phone with her friend with Washington there. Once he saves the woman, shouldn't that change everything? Is the film presenting the idea that she will still die, like his partner? What timeline has him investigating her death and has his presence there after he saved her? Let the debate begin.
He falls in love with a girl from the past. A cute little story that worked for me.
Deja Vu is a good Scott film, but I enjoyed other Washington/Scott collaborations more.