Bottom Of The Barrel

Déjà Vu: A Movie Review Déjà Vu: A Movie Review

It's a phenomenon known as Déjà Vu. We have all had this feeling and as a matter of fact just Friday morning I was briefly listening to the Opie and Anthony show on my way to work and I had swore I had heard the show before but of course I couldn't have because it was live or did I already hear it 4 days ago?

In the movie, the FBI has found a way to look back in time to just over four days ago and are trying to use this new technology to solve the ferry explosion that killed over 500 people. The story is set in post-Katrina New Orleans and is the first film to be made in that city since the devastating hurricane. I applaud Tony Scott and crew for first filming there and employ the local New Orleans community as well as not sugar coating the destruction there. It's refreshing to see Hollywood reminding the world of how bad it was and still is in the Big Easy.

SPOILER ALERT. Information below here contain information that may give away important plot points. You may not want to read any further if you've not already seen this movie.

Time travel movies can be difficult because you can end up with plot inconsistencies or impossible paradoxes, like the Terminator Timeline issue - Terminator's CPU is used to create SkyNet which in turn creates the Terminator which can not exist until it is sent back through time which is impossible because it does not exist yet. Make Sense? Anyway, in the movie Agent Carlin [Denzel Washington] sees bloody rags at Claire's apartment and we later learn his finger prints are everywhere which is all confirmed when he travels back in time. So why isn't the ferry disaster also a known out come since he clearly saves the ferry in the new time line? Of course that would ruin the plot of the movie but it only makes sense that if in the future he has already come back through time and saved the day then, just like his fingerprints are in her apartment, the ferry would not have exploded in the first place. Also, does the future Carlin [who has already come back in time] need to come back again to really save the ferry and the girl? That would take a much longer discussion.

Overall, once you suspend logic and realism, I liked this movie. It has a really good pace, is visually attractive and does keep you guessing along the way.

Labels: Movies

posted by TheWino @ 9:36 AM