Scott Bush

I’m a huge Denzel Washington fan. Really liked Fallen, Man on Fire, and Crimson Tide; and I loved his performance in Much Ado About Nothing (see all his movies on IMDB.com). Last evening we watched his latest, Deja Vu. Quite a film!

What I enjoyed most about the film was the integrity of the storyline. (Don’t read on if you haven’t seen it because this will clearly ruin your movie-watching experience.) There are two timeframes in the movie and—assuming you can suspend your disbelief—you’ll be amazed at how well they mesh together. It’s very trick. Having watched Star Trek for years, the time-travel episodes mostly fall apart (Enterprise’s “temporal cold war” nonsense is a perfect example). That’s why I was surprised at how well Tony Scott (or perhaps I should give more credit to the screenwriters?) managed to foreshadow many plot elements. The second half of the movie we were exclaiming “oh, there’s the [whatever] we saw earlier! Cool!” all the time. It also kept the suspense because we’d seen something earlier that hadn’t yet been explained, so we knew it was coming. And the acting was good across the board, though I felt Jim Caviezel played his role excellently.

There were also some good Denzel lines, as with Fallen’s “Put some food on my plate.” Denzel’s sitting in the device about to go back in time and his colleague asks how he’s doing. “I’m besides myself,” he says in that wry Denzel way. Good stuff.