Denzel Washington plays a time-traveling federal agent in "Déjà Vu." Photo courtesy of Touchstone Pictures
Denzel Washington plays a time-traveling federal agent in "Déjà Vu." Photo courtesy of Touchstone Pictures
You'll feel like you've seen this beforeHave you ever had the feeling that you've lived through something before? I know I have, and it usually comes halfway through the latest Jerry Bruckheimer action picture... In many ways, it's a typical Bruckheimer blockbuster. Large objects blow up in slow motion, and people scream, silently, "Noooooooooooo" into the camera. There's a good actor as action star (Denzel Washington), an eye-catching background (New Orleans), a hissable villain and several car chases. This time, though, the script factors in some science fiction, courtesy of Minority Report, string theory, wormhole physics and some of the spacier parts of What the Bleep Do We Know? ...It's crammed full of visuals -- the multiple images of Enemy of the State, the pyrotechnics of Man on Fire. At one point, this high-tech "Laura" allows Washington to look into the past and stand as close to his beautiful about-to-be-murder-victim as a Peeping Tom. At another, he speeds through a strange fourth-dimensional car chase -- one eye seeing it in the present, one eye seeing it in the past... If you feel you've seen some of it before, that's not ESP. That's Hollywood.
by Stephen Witty
Nov. 21, 2006, 4:42PM
in a quantum sense
