Deja Vu
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 ”You think you know what's coming? You don't have a clue”
Denzel Washington proves again that he is one of the few actors at his level that actually reads the scripts and checks they are good before committing to a project. Having been in the movie game since 1981 you would expect that he is able to recognise when something is going to suck. That’s why it’s always so assuring to see his name topping the bill of any new movie and when you throw Tony Scott in behind the camera, only sparks can fly. A ferry explodes just off shore in New Orleans, killing more than 500 people, many of them members of the military and their children. This is where ATF agent Doug Carlin (Denzel Washington) comes in to investigate and he is put with FBI agent Pryzwarra (Val Kilmer), who runs the elite agency heading up the investigation. Carlin soon finds himself looking through a window in time that gives amazingly clear images of events that occurred exactly four days and six hours ago. Pryzwarra's explanation is that it's a digital composite of satellite images, but Carlin doesn't believe him. He thinks it's something else, and he's determined to find out what. Meanwhile, Carlin discovers a connection between the ferry bombing and the murder of a young woman, Claire Kuchever (Paula Patton). Obsessed and determined to find out exactly what’s going on, Carlin begins to study everything about Claire, watching her life unfold as time ticks away to the moment when her life will end. It’s a good thing this is a very smart and well-thought out movie because when you dabble in time-travel sometimes things can end up being a bit cheesy. Again I go back to the fact that Denzel is rarely associated with below standard pictures, his performance is excellent in this film (like that’s some sort of surprise) and when the action gets going the movie just flies. The story is not too complicated although it does ask you to get involved and work things out for yourself. This only serves to enhance the story and give it a bit more substance. Denzel Washington stars twice over in Tony Scott's time-traveling thriller that starts with a bang and ends with a brain-teaser Deja Vu is the sixth collaboration between director Tony Scott and producer Jerry Bruckheimer, who previously worked together on Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cops II, Days Of Thunder, Crimson Tide and Enemy Of The State). It is also Tony Scott's third collaboration with Denzel Washington (after Crimson Tide and Man On Fire). So you might be forgiven for supposing that the film's title is an ironic promise of old routines and formulae knowingly re-trodden. It is a suspicion that the film's first act seems to confirm, with its explosive opening followed by the kind of painstaking post-mortem detective work 'already seen' many times before in Bruckheimer's TV series 'CSI'. Yet Doug Carlin (Washington), a New Orleans-based federal agent from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, realises this is going to be no ordinary case. During his investigation of the bombing of a ferryboat that has left 543 people dead, Carlin ascertains that one of the victims, Claire Kuchever (Patton), was in fact killed several hours before the ferry explosion. Thanks to his keen mind and local knowledge, he finds himself co-opted into a new FBI investigations unit headed by Agent Pryzwarra (Kilmer). It turns out that Pryzwarra's team of physicists has chanced upon a wormhole into the past, and is cautiously test-driving equipment that enables them to monitor from any angle events of four and a half days ago as they unfold in real time on a high-tech screen. With no idea who the bomber is, Carlin uses the time-leaping equipment to focus on Claire's last days, gathering evidence that will solve the crime and pinpoint the killer. As his sense of outrage and horror grows, he tries to prevent the crime from happening, first by sending clues back in time to himself, and then by sending himself back with just hours remaining before the bombing takes place. In the head-spinning maelstrom of paradoxes that follows, the future may never be the same again - which is just as well, since Carlin is about to make, or at least to have made, the ultimate sacrifice.  Denzel Washington ... Agent Doug Carlin - ATF Paula Patton ... Claire Kuchever Val Kilmer ... Agent Paul Pryzwarra - FBI James Caviezel ... Carroll Oerstadt (as Jim Caviezel) Adam Goldberg ... Dr. Alexander Denny Elden Henson ... Gunnars Erika Alexander ... Shanti Bruce Greenwood ... Agent Jack McCready - FBI Rich Hutchman ... Agent Stalhuth Matt Craven ... Agent Larry Minuti - ATF Donna W. Scott ... Beth (as Donna Scott) Elle Fanning ... Abbey Brian Howe ... Medical Examiner Enrique Castillo ... Claire's Father Mark Phinney ... Agent Kevin Donnelly - ATF Download Torrent 
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