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Déjà Vu (2006)

Rate: 7
Viewed: 10/23

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10/23: This may be hard to believe, but Déjà Vu is now the most New Orleans movie ever made.

There have been others such as A Streetcar Named Desire, Pretty Baby, and Angel Heart, but they all failed to include numerous shots of the city per se. Well, Déjà Vu finally corrects the error.

I've been to Algiers, and there's a paved asphalt called the Mississippi River Trail, which is also known as the Levee Path, on the left and right sides of the ferry terminal. As a matter of fact, I was there a few months ago but had absolutely no idea that the movie was shot on location there. It's keen at any rate.

Denzel Washington re-teams with Tony Scott to make an interesting sci-fi flick, and this time, the results are a lot better than anticipated. There's a weird time travel component involved, but the logic is sound, especially when Denzel Washington's future copy dies while the present version shows up to Claire Kuchever's amazement. Yet the whole premise is impossible due to the amount of technology that's required to make it happen.

By the time the mystery is cleared up while the needless romance subplot is being played, the film starts to sour in a big way, hence my low rating of '7'. I do admit that the concept is thought-provoking and ingenious at times with applications coming from Enemy of the State. Meanwhile, I'm surprised to see how little utilized Val Kilmer is when he could have done more. The script is a bit hard to understand given the technobabble about the time travel stuff which sounds like what these stupid sci-fi films did on a regular basis during the 50's.

All in all, Déjà Vu is the best movie that Denzel Washington and Tony Scott had done together.