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Movie Review: Deja Vu
By Anne Brodie Nov 20, 2006, 9:18 GMT
“We lose everything we love. Think about it.”
That’s the premise, the starting point, the obstacle to be scaled in ‘Déjà Vu’
How about losing this movie?
Its a spectacular misstep by otherwise solid filmmaker Tony Scott and the perennial wonder man Denzel Washington, but they cannot save it from itself.
It is certain folly to marry supernatural romance with action adventure, unless you are Harrison Ford and coat it with laughter. As a serious attempt, it can’t help but implode, resulting in unintentional giggles.
Washington is our guide through a maze of technology we are expected to believe; a surveillance technology that can actually physically recreate events of the past and allow notes to be passed through the barrier to four days earlier.
The technology takes four days to collect its images and render them viewable, but they can only be seen once for some reason. A team of scientists is present 24 / 7 watching these fleeting images.
Washington’s Doug Carlin, an ATF agent (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) is alone in life, he has lost everything. He is bitter, sarcastic and a burr under the saddle of the people he works with. He just doest care what anyone thinks about him and he doesn’t care for technology. Underneath all that is a highly skilled, old school detective, whose old-fashioned techniques seem out of place.
He has a heart that long ago stopped functioning.
Carlin is called to the port of New Orleans to investigate the bombing of a ferry, which resulted in scores of civilian and government casualties. He digs for clues and seems on his way to naming a suspect.
A woman’s body washes ashore seemingly a victim of the bombing. She is badly burned, but he notes, beautiful. As unbalanced as it seems, Carlin falls in love with her.
His credo ‘We lose everything we love’ seems once again to prove itself. And hey ho! The new surveillance gizmo may unite them in death or life. He successfully sends his fantasy woman a warning note through the energy burst system. The city of New Orleans goes dark.
Washington is and always will be a superlative actor, his focus and talent will never fail him.
But, this film has because it is reckless – the tone and realism are all over the map.
Opens USA November 22. MPAA: Rated PG13 for intense sequences of violence and terror, disturbing images, and some sensuality.
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Does anyone know what the theme music to the movie is called? the music they played in the trailor its really good.
Yeah donny, that music is good .. Anyone know whats it called?
You people you don't even know
JD u dont even know, Ur a 4 eyed weirdo hahahahaha
JD u four eyes if you watched the movie closely you would have noticed that there is actually a point to this movie 'refreshing the tree of liberty from time to time' (talked about by the terrorist)this is not the only time the phrase has been used which is pretty disapointing its like a low grade action/thriller movie which is stupid like JD
forgot this for a rating out of 10 i would give it a 3/10 the only good actor in this film is Val Kilmer hes the man he should ave still been doing batman movies as the new batman should be called batty man lol but Val kilmer was the best
H D and ya mum go home you homo's go get something that's called a root you don;t know anything especially H D you are a gay fag go apply for land right's you homo and has for ya mum go home you loser
JD u are such a homo with Chris
“We lose everything we love. Think about it.”
That’s the premise, the starting point, the obstacle to be scaled in ‘Déjà Vu’
How about losing this movie?
Its a spectacular misstep by otherwise solid filmmaker Tony Scott and the perennial wonder man Denzel Washington, but they cannot save it from itself.
It is certain folly to marry supernatural romance with action adventure, unless you are Harrison Ford and coat it with laughter. As a serious attempt, it can’t help but implode, resulting in unintentional giggles.
Washington is our guide through a maze of technology we are expected to believe; a surveillance technology that can actually physically recreate events of the past and allow notes to be passed through the barrier to four days earlier.
The technology takes four days to collect its images and render them viewable, but they can only be seen once for some reason. A team of scientists is present 24 / 7 watching these fleeting images.
Washington’s Doug Carlin, an ATF agent (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) is alone in life, he has lost everything. He is bitter, sarcastic and a burr under the saddle of the people he works with. He just doest care what anyone thinks about him and he doesn’t care for technology. Underneath all that is a highly skilled, old school detective, whose old-fashioned techniques seem out of place.
He has a heart that long ago stopped functioning.
Carlin is called to the port of New Orleans to investigate the bombing of a ferry, which resulted in scores of civilian and government casualties. He digs for clues and seems on his way to naming a suspect.
A woman’s body washes ashore seemingly a victim of the bombing. She is badly burned, but he notes, beautiful. As unbalanced as it seems, Carlin falls in love with her.
His credo ‘We lose everything we love’ seems once again to prove itself. And hey ho! The new surveillance gizmo may unite them in death or life. He successfully sends his fantasy woman a warning note through the energy burst system. The city of New Orleans goes dark.
Washington is and always will be a superlative actor, his focus and talent will never fail him.
But, this film has because it is reckless – the tone and realism are all over the map.
this here is a rating of 10/10 written by Harley H (privacy reasons)do not copy or i will spam your computer =z
Robert Nesta Marley was born on February 6, 1945 in the parish of St. Ann’s in Nine Miles, Jamaica to Norval Sinclair Marley and Cedella ‘Ciddy’ Malcom. Norval was a British Marine officer and Ciddy was a native Jamaican. Soon after his birth, Bob’s father left and had little contact with him although he did financially support his son.
When Bob was five, his father took him to Kingston, Jamaica. It wasn’t until a year later that Bob saw his mother again. Soon after, he moved with his mother to Trenchtown, a section of Kingston notorious for it’s rough ghettoes.
In 1961, at the age of sixteen, Bob released his first song, Judge Not, which did not do well. This did not discourage Bob. He continued to pursue a career in music and in 1965, he formed a group called ‘The Wailers’ with Bunny Livingstone (later known as Bunny Wailer) and Peter McIntosh (later known as simply Peter Tosh.) Bob acted as front man for the group and wrote most of the group’s material. The trio released ‘Simmer Down,’ ‘Rule Them Rudie’ and ‘It Hurts To Be Alone,’ all of which were hits in Jamaica.
In 1966, Bob Marley married Rita Anderson, his long-term girlfriend. The next day he went to the United States and stayed long enough to gain financing for his next record. The next year Bob and Rita’s first child, Cedella, was born. Soon after, the Marley’s set up their own recording label, Wail ‘N Soul ‘M Records, and produced a single, ‘Bend Down Low/Mellow Mood.’ That same year, the record label was ended.
Their next child, David (Ziggy) was born in 1968. The Wailers continued to release singles without producing an album. The band formed another label, Tuff Gong, and finally reached a degree of success. By that time, the Wailers were famous in the Caribbean, but were unknown in the rest of the world.
Finally in 1971, the Wailers got a break. Island Records forwarded them 8,000 pounds for the production of a full album. The Wailers were the first reggae band to receive so much money and to have access to the best recording studios. They produced two albums, ‘Catch a Fire’ and ‘Burnin’’, the latter which included ‘Get Up Stand Up’ and ‘I Shot the Sheriff.’ The Wailers began to extensively toured the United States and the United Kingdom and when Eric Clapton covered ‘I Shot the Sheriff’ the Wailers soared to instant fame.
Soon after their success in the US, the band changed their name to Bob Marley and the Wailers and then released their next album, ‘Natty Dread.’ The album included the hit single ‘No Woman No Cry,’ perhaps their most popular song. Soon after, Bunny and Peter left to pursue solo careers and Were replaced by new members. By 1976, reggae fever had swept the United States. Rolling Stone magazine named Bob Marley and the Wailers the ‘Band of the Year’ and ‘Rastaman Vibration’ rose to the top of the charts.
On December 3 of 1976, an assassination attempt was made on Bob Marley, his wife and the managers of the Wailers to keep him from playing at the Smile Jamaica concert in Kingston. His concert was scheduled for December 5 after a presidential candidate’s election rally, a presidential candidate who happened to be at odds with the US. Some people believe that the assassination attempt was executed by the US government, for fear that Marley’s performance would sway the vote. Despite receiving two gun shot wounds, Bob Marley performed anyway and then left for the UK.
Bob Marley and the Wailers went on to produce their next album, ‘Exodus,’ in 1977. The release of this album propelled Bob to a international superstar. Later, in May of the same year, Bob found out that he had cancer in his toe. Doctors recommended that he have the toe removed, but Bob refused since this was against his Rastafarian beliefs.
In July, the rest of the Exodus tour was cancelled.
In 1978, the band released another album, ‘Kaya.’ The group's songs went from protest anthems to love songs about ganja (marijuana), which is highly held by Rastafarians as a way to connect with Jah (God.) In April, Marley returned to Jamaica to perform in the One Love Peace Concert, and later that year he received a Peace Medal of the Third World from the United Nations. Bob Marley also travelled to Africa for the first time, making stops in Kenya, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe.
The band went on touring throughout the US and Europe and produced a few more albums, including ‘Uprising.’ However, in 1980, Marley fell gravely ill. The cancer in his toe had spread upwards through his body and had infected his liver, stomach and brain. In September, Bob nearly fainted during a concert in New York City. The next day he collapsed while jogging through a park and was rushed to the hospital. The doctors revealed that the tumour in his brain had greatly enlarged and that Bob had less than a month to live.
Bob wanted to continue the tour though, and he performed a spectacular show in Pittsburgh on September 22. Rita was not happy with his decision to spend his final days touring though, and the concert was cancelled the next day. Bob then went to Miami where he was baptized at the Ethiopian Orthodox Church on November 4. Five days later, in a last attempt to save his life, Bob flew to a controversial treatment centre in Germany with Rita. Three months later on May 11, 1981, Bob Marley died at the young age of 36.
JD ur an idiot get lost......
The movie isnt bad but y should we care let the yanks blow each other up who cares if they think that wiping out half their own military will make them better ppl then let them......N did i mention JD is an idiot
the only point i saw to this movie was so denzel could make out with that chick and that the US like killing there own men for more power
hi everyone, the movie deja vu is a nice idea, but there are too many mistakes!!! all the story is wrong... forget about the time travel and how this machine was made... okay this woman died because the bad guy stole her car because he needed one after his was shot by the friend of Denzel Washington. Why his friend shot the car? because of the note that was sent by the time machine. But the action happened before the note was sent to the past and plus how did they find the blood of denzel and his fingerprints in the house of the lady before he even goes back to the past!!!! when he went to the past, he bleed and goes to her house, plus the phone calls to the police... all these happened before he gets back to the past!!! it doesnt make any sense. Plus Later, during his virtual chase in the hummer, he saw an ambulance crashed in a house. How he saw this? he didnt get to the past yet, because when he went to the past, he was the one who drived the ambulance and crashed.So everything he saw in reality happened because of him. But he didn't go yet to the past!!!! and plus at the end, everybody should die like the beginning of the movie, because the movie id based on facts that happened because of denzel going to the past, before he even goes back to the past. so nothing should change in the end. I hope you understand my point... just watch again the movie, you will see... the friend of denzel getting killed, the blood and the fingerprints in the house, the calls, the crashed ambulance, all these were seen in the present, and we saw that they happened when denzel went to the past. We shouldnt see those in the present time if denzel didn't use yet the machine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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John C. DeanNov 27th, 2006 - 17:46:27
'Deja Vu' is a sci fi thriller about an ATF agent, Denzel Washington, who in the process of unraveling the details about a heinous terrorist crime in New Orleans, is caught up in a secret government technology of multiple sensors, computer technology, and gigawatt power systems able to timewarp and connect with the past in a way that gives him hope that he can avert the terrorist event and save hundreds of lives by using this technology in an untested way. Denzel is his usual 'academy award winning' self in this superbly written, acted, and filmed adventure story of an ace detective who is totally committed. What a great opportunity for sequels to present different stories that mess with the 'erase, rerecord?, and play buttons' in new and interesting ways. What a fun movie! 2 thumbs up.
John
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