I don't condemn the whole movie.....

Rating: 6/10 (30 April 2007)

Parts of it were truly truly excellent. I'm a fan of Denzel and love his low-key approach to these meaty roles he snags. And here he doesn't disappoint. The movie had me from the beginning right up to the four-day delay relay of New Orleans. the technology was fascinating and believable and I'm a fan of good sci-fi along with anyone else.
However and it is a huge however, once the movie slipped into time travel it literally blew up and totally lost me.
Great trouble was taken by the director and the script writer to keep the interesting clues consistent in both the past and the present and kudos for that.
But it was alarming that the major plot hole of only sending a note of warning back in time once only and then to the wrong man who gets himself killed as a result. Puh-leese. And then I kept re-working the script - in my head - to more coherence.
I found the scene of the mad smashemup Hummer ride inserted strictly for the young teenage boys of the audience, it was like a video game, innocent tiny passenger cars were totalled willy-nilly with no one to ponder the carnage of bodies that would result. On to the next. The fixation of Doug (the Denzel role) on a dead woman was almost pornographic at times and reminiscent to me of "Laura". But all the knots were neatly untied in Laura.
And here? The time warped Doug dies, the ferry is saved, and in true Hollow-Wood fashion the new and improved Doug sallies forth to embrace the teary heroine.
Serious movie let down from a quite auspicious beginning. Almost like two movies put through a blender. Badly. 6 out of 10. A shame. There was a superb suspense thriller in there somewhere waiting to get out. Everyone ignored it.