Déjà Vu: The Movie, & Déjà Vu The Movie, & ...

Last night was a night we finally decided to put In Déjà Vu for a go-around. Weird though, it felt like we had watched it before…

OK OK, no more corny-ass jokes, I promise.

The movie is not all that bad. It’s chock full of logical inconsistencies and silly plot maneuvers, but in the end I think that it’s completely watchable, and even a bit enjoyable. Denzel Washington stars an an ATF agent that is trying to help track down a terrorist that blew up a boat full of sailors in New Orleans. In trying to solve the case, he is presented with another case about a girl who appears to have been a victim of the boat, but she’s not really. To Denzel, solving her case means solving the terrorist case, as in his mind, the criminal is the same guy (He reasons that he killed her and stole her truck to drive explosives onto the ship).

Now the FBI shows him a cool new tool that lets him look back into the past 4.25 days. So of course, he peeping toms all over this girl in the shower & sh!t (I’m totally not even kidding: Boobies, people, we see boobies), and then drives around on the wrong side of the road chasing a 4-day old vision of a bandit, and later teleports himself into the past to stop her murder & the boat blowing up.

This is where the logical inconsistencies show up. We’re treated to a whole bunch of scenes that play out to create things that were a part of the actual past that happened. However, despite this idea that you can’t change the past because whatever you do you’ve already done and it’s the reason things are now as they are, it departs from that line of reasoning and instead changes course at the last minute, completely irradicating all the meaning of everything you’ve already seen. For the happy ending. Because, you know, a beautiful woman shows us her boobies, clearly she has to live. So that Denzel can handcuff her later – to his bed.

OH YEAH!

We, uh, don’t get to see that part, though. It’s just sort of assumed.

It’s decent but not air-tight. And it could have been better without the happy ending, actually. But it’s still watchable. I give it a C+. And hey, if you want to read all about the general state of gaffes in a fun and intriguing way, I suggest heading over to my favoritest movie spoof site ever for a quick read.

Peace.