Doesn't work.

Rating: 3/10 (7 April 2007)

I am usually skeptical about every film Tony Scott directs these days. "Man On Fire" gave me a terrible headache for days. "Domino" was just garbage in every possible way. The whole post - modernist thing Scott has going on is just totally unnecessary and pretty much annoying. For the most part, "Deja Vu" loses this and that makes it more watchable. But again, there are certain scenes where Scott just obviously can't hold back on himself. and while this film is visually enjoyable(but at times annoying), there are several problems with the story.
I guess it's pretty hard to make a film about time travel, that can avoid massive plot holes, but if usually these plot holes are hard to see, than in this film, they're hard miss. "Deja Vu" rapes every time travel film possible, breaking all the usual rules set up by them. In "Deja Vu" it is never said that time travel is dangerous and could alter the universe. It makes time travel look like an everyday task. This pretty much destroys all the excitement that you could get from the thought of time travel. Also, throughout the movie, the viewer is assured that it is impossible to change what has already happened. And throughout the film we are proved that this is true as the pieces begin to come together. But in the end, something happens, and the ending differs, implying that there is an event that changed the outcome of the story, but it is never explained what is this event. I suppose that this is intended to be the "divine intervention". And that's probably the thing that doesn't work in the film. Mixing religion with time travel? I'm sorry, but that's just retarded.
I probably don't recommend this film to anyone. If you really want a good time travel flick, watch "Primer" instead.