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Deja Vu (2006)

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Reviews Counted:33

Fresh:18

Rotten:15

Average Rating:5.8/10

Consensus: Tony Scott tries to combine action, science fiction, romance, and explosions into one movie, but the time travel conceit might be too preposterous and the action falls apart under scrutiny.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for intense sequences of violence and terror, disturbing images and some sensuality.

Runtime: 2 hrs 8 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Theatrical Release:Nov 22, 2006 Wide

Box Office: $63,944,632

Synopsis: After the success of 2004's MAN ON FIRE, director Tony Scott and Denzel Washington teamed up once again--this time alongside high-powered producer Jerry Bruckheimer--to deliver this big-budget... After the success of 2004's MAN ON FIRE, director Tony Scott and Denzel Washington teamed up once again--this time alongside high-powered producer Jerry Bruckheimer--to deliver this big-budget spectacle of an action picture set in post-Katrina New Orleans. The city is delivered another crushing blow when a ferry explodes, killing over 500 innocent citizens. Only this time, nature wasn't the cause of the tragedy. Enter ATF officer Doug Carlin (Washington), who is recruited by a newly formed FBI unit (headed by Val Kilmer) to help track down the killer (a Timothy McVeigh-esque Jim Caviezel). When a body is found floating in the river, it is determined that the victim was murdered before the ferry blast occurred. Unfortunately, the victim was the impossibly beautiful Claire Kuchever (Paula Patton), whose death has begun to torment Carlin. Adding a new level to the investigation is a top-secret FBI invention, which allows a select group to view the past on screen as if it had been videotaped days earlier. The more Carlin sees of Kuchever, the more connected to her he becomes, until he decides to risk his life by traveling back in time and altering the course of history. Plausibility isn't the number one reason to watch a Jerry Bruckheimer movie, and DÉJÀ VU is certainly no exception. This time around, however, Bruckheimer wisely recruited Scott and Washington to bring their expertise to the project. The result is another stylish and atmospheric drama/thriller/romance/action-adventure hybrid, which raises interesting questions as it entertains. [More]

Starring: Denzel Washington, Jim Caviezel, Adam Goldberg, Bruce Greenwood

Starring: Denzel Washington, Jim Caviezel, Adam Goldberg, Bruce Greenwood, Val Kilmer, Paula Patton, Eldon Henson, Erika Alexander, Paul Cameron

Director: Tony Scott

Director: Tony Scott
Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer
Screenwriter: Bill Marsilii, Terry Rossio
Composer: Harry Gregson-Williams
Studio: Touchstone Pictures

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I felt cheated.

Full Review Source: New Yorker | comment 2 Comments
12/04/06
David Denby
David Denby
New Yorker
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Nobody looks cooler walking in slow motion through a crime scene while wearing sunglasses than Denzel Washington -- but even the great Denzel can’t save Déjà Vu.

Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | comment Comment
11/27/06
Richard Roeper
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
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The fleetingly satisfying Déjà Vu is ultimately a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment 1 Comment
11/24/06
Geoff Pevere
Geoff Pevere
Toronto Star
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Pretty dazzling, as action adventures go, even when it's wildly, almost defiantly, implausible.

Full Review Source: Wall Street Journal | comment Comment
11/23/06
Joe Morgenstern
Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal
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The movie manages the singular feat of placing a science-fiction premise in a realistic setting, only to render that premise even more far-fetched than it would have seemed otherwise.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
11/23/06
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
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Déjà Vu isn't as sleek a genre pleasure as Enemy of the State, but it does have a freaky little trick up its sleeve.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
11/22/06
Nathan Lee
Nathan Lee
Village Voice
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Deja Vu attempts to explain the 'science' behind the movie's time-jumping, but in a drama that's contemporary and supposedly realistic, it comes off as cockamamie.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
11/22/06
Washington Post
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[A] needlessly complicated and confusing thriller.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
11/22/06
Ruthe Stein
Ruthe Stein
San Francisco Chronicle
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Déjà Vu is well worth seeing for its visual brio, particularly the boom-crash opera of the ferry explosion, and a chase scene in which Washington is dodging downtown traffic on two temporal planes simultaneously.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | comment Comment
11/22/06
David Hiltbrand
David Hiltbrand
Philadelphia Inquirer
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Deja Vu starts out a lot like an expensive-looking episode of CSI before morphing into a solidly entertaining time-traveling romance.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
11/22/06
Lou Lumenick
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
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Ed Wood, notorious as the worst film director in history, could have made the $80 million Jerry Bruckheimer time-travel thriller Déjà Vu for about $99.95 and it would have been just as believable.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
11/22/06
Jack Mathews
Jack Mathews
New York Daily News
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Definition of redundant: A formulaic Hollywood pic that calls itself Déjà Vu.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
11/22/06
Rick Groen
Rick Groen
Globe and Mail
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A quirk-filled, paranoid, blood-and-sweat thriller that offers perfect pulse-racing escape for a holiday weekend.

Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
11/22/06
Tom Long
Tom Long
Detroit News
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DéjÀ Vu is so cleverly thought out and is conceived, directed and acted that the leaps in both logic and scientific theory are more fun to make than they are to ponder.

Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
11/22/06
Terry Lawson
Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press
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An often-engaging if not especially believable thriller.

Full Review Source: Denver Rocky Mountain News | comment Comment
11/22/06
Robert Denerstein
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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Deja Vu takes you on a wonderfully twisting and turning journey that often will leave you wondering and perhaps confused -- but ultimately leaves you with a satisfying and totally logical explanation when the credits role.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
11/22/06
Bill Zwecker
Bill Zwecker
Chicago Sun-Times
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Usually a Scott-Bruckheimer production sends you home wanting a shower. But here they've caught the movie's unstoppable bayou spirit and send you home on a high.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
11/22/06
Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
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Washington is so casually, inherently likable that he makes wending through the movie's multiple implausibilities easier to bear.

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
11/21/06
Stephanie Zacharek
Stephanie Zacharek
Salon.com
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Déjà Vu cannot escape the weight of its murky science, action-film formula and preposterous ending.

Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
11/21/06
Scott Bowles
Scott Bowles
USA Today
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An action flick in which the gaudy pyrotechnics are nowhere near as jaw-dropping as the screenplay that name-checks not one, not two, but three national tragedies.

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11/21/06
Manohla Dargis
Manohla Dargis
New York Times
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