Convoluted high concept thriller with the ultimate What If scenario

Rating: 6/10 (27 November 2006)

DÉJÀ VU (2006) ** Denzel Washington, Val Kilmer, Paula Patton, James Caviezel, Adam Goldberg, Elden Henson, Erika Alexander, Bruce Greenwood, Matt Craven. Convoluted high concept thriller with the ultimate What If scenario - to wit: What If you could go back in time to save someone you loved from a horrible fate would you? That's the ultimate decision for an ATF agent (Washington) to make in his investigation of a terrorist bombing of a ferryboat in New Orleans as he discovers a top secret scientific team who are capable of time traveling in a 4 _ day window that asks more question than it answers, namely the scenario at hand's difficult chore set up by a hard-to-swallow script by Bill Marsilii & Terry Russio and the hyperkinetic direction by Tony Scott just makes things implausibly laughable in spite of the Jerry Bruckheimer machine chomping at the bit with its over-the-top pyrotechniques and flashy visuals. A morally bankrupt attempt at actually an interesting premise marred in its tenacity.