Storyline
Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a time-shifting surveillance device to help prevent crime.
Directors
Cast
Adam Goldberg, Donna W. Scott, Brian Howe, Val Kilmer, Denzel Washington, Lew Temple, Matt Craven, Paula Patton, Bruce Greenwood, Gary Grubbs, David Jensen, Michael Arata, Elle Fanning, Jim Caviezel, Carol Sutton, Ritchie Montgomery, Brandi Coleman, Elden Henson, Erika Alexander, Rich Hutchman, Enrique Castillo, Mark Phinney, Sylvia Jefferies, Maureen Brennan, Shondrella Avery, John McConnell, Dane Rhodes, Clay Steakley, Lorry Houston, Polly Craig, Ted Manson, Yvonne Landry, Brian F. Durkin, Scott Alan Smith, Nadia Shazana, Charles Hirsch, Kenneth Lee, Ron Flagge, Justin Colvin, J. Todd Smith, Jerrod Paige, Jonathan Majoue, Bart Hansard, John Will Clay, Scott Klace, David Pease, Patt Noday, Andy Umberger, Jack Daniel Stanley, Randy Austin, J.W. Williams, Rio Hackford, Frank Duffy, Bill Ladd, Lara Grice, Lowell Perry, Julia Lashae, Chris Rose, Douglas M. Griffin, Margaret Lawhon, Roy McCrerey, Freddy Mitchell, John Johnson, Ronald Mason, Shawn Michael Patrick
Trailer
Reviews
80
Variety
Cinema's natural felicities for time and action have seldom felt as beautifully dovetailed.
80
Unlike the last Scott-Washington matchup, "Man on Fire," Deja Vu boasts a muscular, fast-forward story that won't be overwhelmed by Scott's need for speed in the form of rapid cuts and all that visual fusion that have become his stylistic trademark. Here, the approach is perfectly suited to the picture's time-shifting, multitasking structure.
80
What is interesting is not how little sense Déjà Vu makes but how little that matters. If you want your films to add up logically, you're welcome to take your calculator somewhere else. But if you do, you will be missing out on some first-class genre fun.
75
Denzel Washington plays Denzel Washington, good cop. This isn't a great performance, but Washington wasn't brought in to show off his acting chops.
75
Premiere
Although the science fiction element had the potential to drag the story down, it's kept to a minimum and left somewhat buried in techno jargon.
