Deja Vu (2006) 7/10

Starring : Denzel Washington, Paula Patton, Val Kilmer, Jim Caviezel, Adam Goldberg, Elden Henson, Erika Alexander
Director : Tony Scott
Running Time : 126 mins

Doug Carlin (Washington) is assigned to investigate a terrorist attack on a naval ferry. The dead body of a young woman (Patton) is found washed up after the blast, and Carlin concludes that she may be able to lead them to the terrorist. He is then introduced to a surveillance team who are able to use satellite feeds to view events exactly four and a half days earlier, and they begin to trace the young woman’s last moments to try and find the killer. But when Carlin realises that they can effect the events happening four days earlier, even in a minor way, he decides that he may be able to stop the disaster from having ever happened.

An immensely complicated thriller, using an awful lot of complicated techno-babble to try to detract from the unlikely time-travelling scenarios, this was nonetheless quite entertaining, though you do have to really concentrate on what’s happening throughout and can’t simply switch off and absorb the movie.

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