Deja Vu

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A ferry filled with crewmen from the USS Nimitz and their families was blown up in New Orleans on Mardi Gras. BATF Doug Carlin is brought in to assist in the massive investigation, and gets attached to an experimental FBI surveillance unit, one that uses spacefolding technology to directly look back a little over four days into the past.

I caught this movie last weekend via the wonders of digital cable. I didn’t know much about it coming in, other than that Denzel Washington was some kind of cop and he was investigating some kind of disaster.

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Washington is actually an ATF agent called in to help investigate of a ferry that was bombed by terrorists in New Orleans. Val Kilmer, whom I also had no idea was in this film, is the head of the FBI task force already working on the case. The agents turn up the dead body of a woman killed shortly before the explosion by the terrorists. Then, things start getting crazy. The FBI team has access to a top secret contraption that allows them to look exactly 4 days into the past, complete with audio and 360 degree imagery. The problem is, they can’t pause it and they can only look at one thing at a time, so they need to be looking in exactly the right spot to get anything useful from the device. Additionally, they’re able to at least somewhat alter the past while they’re watching, as it’s actually some sort of crazy alternate universe.

As the team watches the aforementioned dead girl, trying to figure who killed her in order to ID the bomber, Denzel decides he likes her and is convinced he can not only save her, but prevent the ferry attack as well. Initially, the team tries to send back a note to the Denzel of 4 days ago, tipping him off about the girl. However, they’re unable to pull that off, so instead, Denzel convinces them to send him back in a last ditch effort.

I had no idea there was any sci-fi angle at all to this movie and was pleasantly surprised by it all. It was suspenseful and pretty engaging right up until the very end, which I thought wasn’t handled very well. I do recommend it though and give it a solid 4-Star rating.

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