Deja Vu
I watch a lot of DVDs and most of the time I fall asleep during half of them. Very few so called action packed movies capture my attention since most of them seem to be thick on budget and thin on content ... Then I popped Buena Vista's new releases Deja Vu into my DVD player and this is truly one movie that captured me from the opening sequence. This one is one of the most creative, suspenseful, thought provoking movies and definitely my favorite of 2007 thus far.
Denzel Washington plays federal agent Doug Carlin who is called to recover evidence in the after effects of an explosion on a New Orleans ferry filled with Navy men and civilians. After meeting with a secret government agency they call upon Doug to help them find the mastermind behind this catastrophic event. They use a state of the art time shifting surveillance machine to learn the sequence of events and eventually Carlin finds that this new contraption may actually enable him to go back in time and stop this horrific act from occuring.
Deja Vu is an exhilarating movie that will keep you glued all the way to the semi-predictable ending. Not only is this an entertaining movie but it also sparks a discussion on a few subjects such as government surveillance, time travel and God's providence. With the combination of Denzel Washington, Val Kilmer and the brilliant mind of producer Jerry Bruckheimer you can be guaranteed to see a top notch movie with an interesting twist at the end.
Reviewed by: Jeff Holton
