Deja Vu - An experience in illusion

Doug (Daniel Washington) is an ATF agent who happens to investigate a powerful bomb explosion which kills 500-odd navy soldiers and their families. During the investigation, Doug comes to know that there is a rather out of the world tool/mechanism, through which they shall be able to see what some one was doing in the past and change a bit of their actions in the past. Later he uses the same principle to save those 500-odd people killed.

Good things first – Denzel Washington is superb in the role. He fits himself so very easily into an intelligent yet arrogant, talkative yet precise and more importantly fact talking agent that you are bound to amaze at this actor’s capability. Denzel carries of the movie very easily and the way he describes the blast scenario and the cause of it at the starting it superb.

It is completely incomprehensible to even comprehend such an idea. Most part of the movie seems to be very childish – the scenes involving tracking a person using cameras way up in the sky simply map to Google Earth and its address location. Tony Scott gets into the details of the character and the filming so much that you will be surprised at the variation that he gets in the movie. The way the shots involving past and future have been taken leaves their mark on the viewer. The story could have more promptly written or scientifically done. All the scenes involving viewing someone else in the past, doesn’t make a lot of sense.

All in all, a movie well taken. A good watch if you like Denzel. But most things in this wonderful world, it could have been done in a better fashion.

Déjà vu – It’s an experience in illusion, very confusing one to say the least.