With no idea who the bomber is, Carlin uses the time-leaping equipment to focus on Claire’s last days, gathering evidence that will solve the crime and pinpoint the killer – but as his sense of outrage and horror grows, he decides instead to try and prevent the crime from happening at all, first by sending clues back in time to himself, and then by sending himself back with just hours remaining before the bombing takes place. It turns out that Pryzwarra’s team of physicists has chanced upon a wormhole into the past, and is cautiously test-driving equipment that enables them to monitor from any angle events of four and a half days ago as they unfold in real time on a high-tech screen. Thanks to his keen mind and local knowledge, Carlin finds himself co-opted into a new FBI investigations unit headed by Agent Pryzwarra (Val Kilmer). Yet as Doug Carlin (Washington), a New Orleans-based federal agent from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, begins investigating the bombing of a ferryboat that has left 543 people dead, and ascertains that one of the victims, Claire Kuchever (Paula Patton), was in fact killed several hours before the ferry explosion, he realises that this is going to be no ordinary case.
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It is a suspicion that the film’s first act seems to confirm, with its explosive opening followed by the kind of painstaking post-mortem detective work ‘already seen’ many times before in Bruckheimer’s TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
Review: Déjà Vu is the sixth collaboration between director Tony Scott and producer Jerry Bruckheimer (after Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cops II, Days of Thunder, Crimson Tide, Enemy of the State), and Scott’s third collaboration with actor Denzel Washington (after Crimson Tide and Man on Fire) – so you might be forgiven for supposing that the film’s title is an ironic promise of old routines and formulae knowingly retrodden. Summary: Denzel Washington stars twice over in Tony Scott’s time-travelling thriller that starts with a bang and ends with a brain-teaser.
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