Denzel's Doppelganger

Rating: 6/10 (21 May 2007)

An interesting premise - a special task-force is equipped with a cutting edge technology enabling users to look into the past. They do not bother to go further in providing elaborate explanations of how exactly this stuff works but we got to understand that the remote sensing technologies they use have certain limitations providing insight into only particular time span (4 days backward), which cannot be fine tuned. It looked like they somehow miraculously have been deriving satellite "ghost" imagery which is 4 days old.
Initially I was thinking it might be due to some abysmal hard disk storage, which is capable of saving myriads of data from RS satellites in near real-time and these file archives could be accessed to furnish information on any area of surveillance which is only 4 days old and they can manipulate and interpret information shot from different angles of observation that could be rendered into free rotating 3D imagery. And my assumptions have been shattered when I figured out that they can also pierce through the walls.
There was a really gripping sequence when Washington is blind chasing the "delayed vision" of terrorist's car racing across the highway.
I wish they could stop pushing an envelope beyond those already immense technological capabilities. Sadly they went further experimenting with time travel aspects and have thrown the protagonist to the past, exactly where all the confusion began.
I don't want to ruin expectations of the audience that haven't seen the film yet and to disclose further intricacies of the plot. But I wonder what could have happened if Washington eventually managed to find his way to the surface out from the submerged car.
Guess whom he was supposed to meet at the berth beside the salvaged girl?