good idea, but not well done

Rating: 5/10 (16 January 2007)

After a terrorist attack, the best agent of "CSI" is called to try a new kind of tool to solve crimes: a kind of camera that allow you to see what happened 3 days ago everywhere. It is a good idea, how to rebuild the crime from the beginning, but at the middle of the film it became a typical action film with a superhero-I-can-do-everything that is simply correct. It tries to go deep and to be different by putting in the time aspect, but after the rules are set: There's no way to change the future, and everything you do guides you to your future; just at the end, they change, as Denzel is so good, he changes the future and he does it in a very incoherent way, as he is in love with someone he has not met yet (he'll do 3 days after). Actors are not bad, but as the script is incoherent, the result is not good. I don't mind movies messing with time, but I'd like them to do it correctly. What starts as a thriller, soon became a sci-fi thriller and ends incoherently as a typical action movie where things happen without any reason (what a way to fell in love!) usually is not good. These mixes could result wonderful, but it is hard to do the mix well and, well this is not an example of that. Due to his incoherent script the movie results disappointing, but it is a good point to remark the good job of the director, being able to do a decent (not good) movie with this script. The idea was good, but the story was never interesting. I hope next Tony Scott movie is better.