Suspend disbelief all ye who enter here

Rating: 6/10 (25 November 2006)

The premise is well known by now. Denzel Washington is approached by FBI agents with neat new gadgetry that records events from space in Google Earth Maximus so that he can solve a terrorist bombing. Then they reluctantly admit they actually can bend time and see into the past, but only for 4 days worth and it can't be Tivo'd.
Agent Denzel works for the ATF, but as this is a Bruckheimer vehicle we all know what that means. All Bruckheimer heroes get to do everybody else's job without OJT. The FBI takes a back seat. The Police take a back seat. Homeland Security lets agent Denzel run the show!
All Bruckheimer vehicles exist in a scrunched World. The Press cease to exist. Lawyers are almost always non existent. When agent Denzel almost certainly kills off a few unlucky commuters in his zeal to follow the baddie, no Police ever show up to inquire whether said zeal has compromised the purpose of chasing down baddies!
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Denzel usually chooses his vehicles well. This time not so much! The movie works fairly well until Denzel, as we know he must, goes back in time. To stop the carnage of 500+ plus people from dying? Well yes but really, No! To rescue a damsel in distress. A very cute DID to be sure, but still our hero takes an hour and a half of his allotted 2 hours to rescue her, take her home, let her bandage him up, and most ridiculously to take time to make sure that the the things in her house are not rearranged (because as we all know if you go back in time, you can't rearrange anything). This proves ridiculous because he's already rescued DID from being killed by baddie again!
Suffice it to say this movie has plot holes you can fly a 747 through, but it might not have mattered if the writers had decided to cut out the whole traveling back in time to rescue DID, and had instead treated us to the much more interesting initial story line story of sending a clue back to the past so that they could have followed the clue to stop the crimes.