routine sci-fi

Rating: Null/10 (18 August 2002)

(*** WARNING SPOILERS COMING BELOW*****) Don't read this unless you've seen the movie. I didn't enjoy this movie as much as I thought I would. It had its moments and was entertaining in the end. But it showed very few new ideas. Almost everything you had already seen in other movies. It reminded me a lot about "12 monkeys" with Bruce Willis (among other movies). That movie I liked, this one I only half-liked. I predicted parts of the ending and was never really surprised. One of many things I couldn't understand was how Mr Sydows character could get away with his murder. He must have planned his murder BEFORE he hired that other guy to do the murder so Sydows murder must have been the first vision and his name must have come up on the "ball", so if they would have erased a vision for "deja vu" they would have erased the vision of the guy sydow set up and not the vision of the real murder. And what about the time? Supposedly they could see the exact time of the murder, the two murders occured at different times so they could easily separate them. I can take "fantastic", totally unreal plots as long as they have logic. But if they put logic aside as well it's not very entertaining ** out of ****