"Deja Vu" Movie Review

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Deja Vu

Academy Award(R) winner Denzel Washington joins forces with blockbuster producer Jerry Bruckheimer and mega-hit director Tony Scott for Déjà Vu — the powerful, fast-paced action-thriller with a spectacular mind-bending twist.

Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a time-shifting surveillance device to help prevent crime. But can it help Carlin change the past? Hold on to your seat for an explosive and intriguing thrill ride you'll want to experience again and again.'

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Deja Vu: Cast 

Denzel Washington as Special Agent Douglas Carlin
Paula Patton as Claire Kuchever
Adam Goldberg as Alexander Denny
Elden Henson as Gunnars
Bruce Greenwood as Jack McCready
Val Kilmer as Agent Paul Pryzwarra
Erika Alexander as Shanti
Matt Craven as Larry Minuti
James Caviezel as Carroll Oerstadt

"Deja Vu" Movie Trailer 

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"Deja Vu" Editorial Review 

Kathleen C. Fennessy (Amazon.com)


Deja Vu

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.

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    Zackfaire Zackfaire Sep 11, 2008 @ 3:52 am
    im a fan of denzel washington because of the way he acts. i just love his characters, be it a hero or a villain. i only saw the trailer for this movie tho. here are also a couple of reviews that i did on a couple of movies. http://www.siakoi.com/topic-specific/two-movies-21-and-cloverfield.html
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"Deja Vu" Resources 

Deja Vu (2006)
Deja Vu on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...
Déjà vu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Déjà vu (disambiguation).
The term "déjà vu" describes the experience of feeling that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously.

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