![]() ![]() Following a deadly ferry explosion on Fat Tuesday that kills hundreds of US Navy personnel and their families, New Orleans ATF agent Doug Carlin (Washington) finds the body of a woman near the wreckage who appears to have been tortured. Washington masterfully disguises the paucity of plot and character with spiky charm, and the support from Adam Goldberg as a string theory-spouting physicist adds energy to what would otherwise be interminable talking-head scenes. 2006 film starring Denzel Washington, Val Kilmer, Jim Caviezel, and Paula Patton. RMDP0W5T New Orleans, LA, USA Actress PAULA PATTON (Hitch), uses her day off from playing Denzel Washingtons love interest in the film Deja Vu, currently taping in New Orleans, to join in Wednesdays Katrina Krewe clean-up effort. After viewing satellite surveillance, Carlin also stumbles upon a woman named Claire Kuchever, who has been murdered shortly before the Ferry incident. Tony Scott’s crazed camera shoots with the manic energy of a Ritalin-deprived teenager the opening explosion is surely one of the most enjoyably destructive since Lethal Weapon 3, and he delivers possibly the world’s first split-screen car chase. When a bomb explodes on a ferry boat in New Orleans, special operatives from the FBI and ATF come to the scene, including ATF agent Doug Carlin. But is it a time machine that a desperate cop could use to travel back to stop the bombing from ever happening? (The answer to this question is provided early on when someone yells something along the lines of, “You absolutely cannot send someone through the field - it’s just too risky!”)īill Marsilli and Terry Rossio’s often witty screenplay wrestles briefly with the paradoxes of time-travel before giving in after about half an hour, while Paula Patton is disappointingly bland as the love interest (though she is saddled with the inconvenience of being technically dead for most of the movie). It’s convenient for his investigation that the government boffins have knocked up a device that can peer precisely four-and-a-half days into the past. Time travel is the excuse for the big bangs this time, with Denzel Washington employing his unassailable screen charm as the government agent investigating the spectacular bombing of a New Orleans ferry. Guaranteed save your time and money MOVIE DETAIL Title : Deja Vu Year : 2006 Content : PG-13 Genre : Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller Release Date : Stars : Denzel Washington, Paula Patton, Val Kilmer, Jim Caviezel Writer : Bill Marsilii, Terry Rossio Director : Tony Scott Duration : 126 min Synopsis : An A.T.F. Brain-befuddling trash, then, but brain-befuddling trash from a master of the dark craft. Tony Scott’s latest film is, appropriately given the title, exactly like every other Tony Scott film: an experience akin to being beaten about the head with a hose while Hans Zimmer (or in this case Harry Gregson-Williams) turns his Minimoog up to 11. Using a single fixed camera and only one rudimentary set, he patiently records the emotional disintegration of a widowed. ![]() Tony Scott’s latest film, a distinct change of direction for the veteran director of Top Gun and Man On Fire, is a downbeat investigation of the paralysing nature of grief. ![]()
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