Amusing, if You Forgot Logic !

Rating: Null/10 (26 February 2010)

It's undoubtedly a pretty movie. In rare time, Tony displays the sane, more mature, side of him. I think that he released his passion for rotating the camera through the Snow White program's shots, so the rest was smart, sedate, and not showy. In a word, artsy more than technical. Actually the problem isn't with the directing here. It's surely with that script.
It's the good guy, the girl, the bad guy, the chase, the climax, and the happy ending. However, in such a different creative plot this round. The imagination is so wild; there is a mystery to be solved, a criminal to be caught, a crime to be stopped, and a love story to be complete, all by time travel; it deserves the 9 years that scriptwriters (Bill Marsilii) and (Terry Rossio) sacrificed to finish writing it. I adore the time travel movies. The factor is magical and brilliant. Few managed to be as magical and brilliant. Here, it's magical, but not too brilliant I suppose.
It was so capable of showing all what it has through a unique thrilling way. The parallel storylines in the past and in the present worked well. But it's slightly in the characters, then more deeply in the logic of its imagination, and seriously in the whole - really weird - third act.
I have no idea why this cop loved this girl that much. And I knew nothing about the girl but she's an angel. And I don't know would he love, or re-love, her after the ending? I laugh right now, simply because these are silly questions that are not supposed to be asked in this entertaining movie; as much as it was really entertaining. You'd have hundreds of the movie's fans to answer them for you with an indignant look up their faces. So these things were appropriate in their own world, and that's why it's the slight matter.
But when it comes to the Snow White program, I have to disagree. Despite that the main idea was wonderful, it wasn't built nicely. I couldn't buy nearly all what was said about "finding it accidentally", "the 4,5 days", etc. If 10 billions were spent for sending a small paper into the past, then what was the cost of sending a "man"? And who paid? As much as I loved the moment in which the girl sees the light beam of the future (originally surprising indeed), as much as I refused it later; since naturally you have to ask how in God's name she didn't see the light reflections of these guys' hand watches, glasses, buttons, and screens ever before??!! Let alone that it's hard to get all of that in a movie that looks realistic from the start, and didn't have wholly any sci-fi factor but this. So how about the irony of having too wild imagination and a bit reckless dealing as well?!
Speaking about reckless, I hated the third act which was a major plot hole. Whereas how the lead, who wrote to himself "u can save her" on the refrigerator and caused all of the bloody cotton, didn't manage to save her or else before? I mean the man, in the present, watched carefully what he already lived (the past / his future) although the girl died and the ferry exploded?? How while the ambulance hit the home before the blowup of both, the results were negative; since according to that itself, the lead saved the girl already and there is no case to investigate about in the first place! See how this movie, by this third act, shoots itself in the head!
I don't believe this was played like that for the sake of matching the title of (Déjà vu). There must have been a first try where the lead did go to the past then failed. Review the moment in which his cell phone was ringing while looking at the body bags. Simply it was his phone, and it was his body in the bag indicating, after the whole watching, that he went back in time already and failed. But maybe the production wasn't able to afford shooting that first attempt, in despite of how it would have cleared up so many things and made the movie more coherent and less wrong. Maybe they thought that the movie would be so long to be tolerable. Or maybe they relied on the "ramified ways of the universe", with unsuccessful then successful tries (that we get to see or don't!), however in this case it's left for us to do the hard math, and collect too many missing pieces!
The ending was just a die-hard happy ending. I laughed a lot with the lead alive anew, having the girl alive too. This time, I laughed for longer time that lasted after the movie was gone. That what happens when the movie makers keep themselves busy with making a happy ending, more than paying attention to trivial matters like mind and thinking!
But it's Hollywood. And this is a blockbuster. With (Scott), (Bruckheimer), and (Washington). Namely millions to be paid for millions - hopefully more - to be collected later. So don't mind being mindless totally there, or partly here. Because nowadays the major plot holes became a Hollywood tradition. Accordingly, don't talk about being forced or illogical, since in these movies the forced becomes very logical for carrying out the holy status in which the viewer goes out of the theater fully satisfied. Nonetheless, after this movie, I was satisfied, but not fully. I can't shut my brain down to this degree!
(Déjà vu) is relatively disappointing if you thought about it. Highly disappointing if you waited for amazing love story through time travel. Amusing if you didn't do this or that.