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Deja Vu (2006)
Denzel Washington...a good actor that has the misfortune of ending up in mediocre action movies. Deja Vu is one of those ah-it's-ok flicks that are easy to watch and...easy to forget.
I really liked the first 30 minutes when the film was a straight, crime scene investigation drama. Denzel was real good in those first 30 minutes. But once we get to the sci-fi time-spy-cam, the film takes a step backwards and even Denzel goes from interesting to luke warm.
I had to laugh at his tizzy fit when in a frustrated rage he throws a chair into the FBI's ultra expensive time machine monitor. Silly, but not his fault, it's the directors mistake.
The sci fi elements didn't work and the idea of the Minority Report style high tech crime surveillance monitors just wasn't interesting to me and either were the actors who played the 'time geeks'. I can't watch Adam Goldberg without thinking of him as Chandler's crazy roommate from Friends, sorry but that boy is time-cast...err I mean type-cast.
Shanti (does she have a last name?) was the only believable scientist crime fighter in the time geek squad. But poor Val Kilmer didn't get to do anything interesting. Though I will say that Jim Caviezel gets some really good scenes as he plays an oddly inspired, home grown terrorist. The producers apparently wanted a sequel, as his character hints that he's on some sort of mission, which I took to be that he was a future time traveler sent to change the past, so he's available for part 2!
The film was kind of exciting during the chase scene in the Hummer, though chases aren't really my thing. But then they break that tension by going back to the girl's apartment and hang out for awhile...What? I thought the clock was ticking with only minutes left before the bomb explodes...They sure took their sweet time, but then with a time machine you can do that
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Deja Vu (2006)
Director: Tony Scott
Writers: Bill Marsilii & Terry Rossio
Cast: Denzel Washington, Paula Patton, Jim Caviezel
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Writers: Bill Marsilii & Terry Rossio
Cast: Denzel Washington, Paula Patton, Jim Caviezel
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
'After a ferry is bombed in New Orleans, an A.T.F. agent joins a unique investigation using experimental surveillance technology to find the bomber, but soon finds himself becoming obsessed with one of the victims.'
I really liked the first 30 minutes when the film was a straight, crime scene investigation drama. Denzel was real good in those first 30 minutes. But once we get to the sci-fi time-spy-cam, the film takes a step backwards and even Denzel goes from interesting to luke warm.
I had to laugh at his tizzy fit when in a frustrated rage he throws a chair into the FBI's ultra expensive time machine monitor. Silly, but not his fault, it's the directors mistake.
The sci fi elements didn't work and the idea of the Minority Report style high tech crime surveillance monitors just wasn't interesting to me and either were the actors who played the 'time geeks'. I can't watch Adam Goldberg without thinking of him as Chandler's crazy roommate from Friends, sorry but that boy is time-cast...err I mean type-cast.
Shanti (does she have a last name?) was the only believable scientist crime fighter in the time geek squad. But poor Val Kilmer didn't get to do anything interesting. Though I will say that Jim Caviezel gets some really good scenes as he plays an oddly inspired, home grown terrorist. The producers apparently wanted a sequel, as his character hints that he's on some sort of mission, which I took to be that he was a future time traveler sent to change the past, so he's available for part 2!
The film was kind of exciting during the chase scene in the Hummer, though chases aren't really my thing. But then they break that tension by going back to the girl's apartment and hang out for awhile...What? I thought the clock was ticking with only minutes left before the bomb explodes...They sure took their sweet time, but then with a time machine you can do that
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