8/29/2023 0 Comments Deja vu denzel washington![]() ![]() Carlin watches, entranced, with easy listening playing on the soundtrack. The voyeuristic scenes of Carlin and the FBI agents watching Claire in her apartment are milked to an over-the-top degree, with Claire constantly striking glamour-model poses and perpetually in various states of undress, even though she's just hanging around her apartment. So, if I feel like someone's watching me, maybe it's crime investigators in the future trying to piece together what happens to me a few days from now? At least it looks like I don't have to worry about déjà vu-not being a law enforcement official involved in a high-tech crime investigation. Later, she makes a note in her diary about "that weird 'I'm being watched' feeling." ![]() "Hello? Hello?" she calls uncertainly, looking around her apartment and then wandering out into the hallway. All the time, though, the past marches on as relentlessly as the present, and there's a complicated, possibly disingenuous technobabble explanation for why there are no do-overs, no rewinding, no fast-forwarding.Ĭarlin doesn't mind the view of Claire's boudoir, but he doesn't necessarily buy the feds' technobabble about how the chronoscope works-especially when Claire herself seems aware of something out of the ordinary. Within their surveillance radius, the FBI team can see literally anything happening four days ago-even looking through walls, a bit like in Scott's earlier Enemy of the State, thus allowing agents to peer in on the last hours of a murder victim named Claire Kuchever (Paula Patton) as she changes clothes, showers and so forth. He isn't kidding about the "exactly once" part. Responsible for all this is a top-secret FBI surveillance technology that-according to the official explanation offered to Carlin-reconstructs an on-the-fly virtual view of the recent past by synthesizing input from all available sources, from satellite photography to local security cameras, into a single, continuous roving image of life as it was four and a half days earlier. Are you thinking fourth-dimensionally yet? Beyond that, Déjà Vu pursues its science-fiction conceit to some nifty places, including an extraordinary cross-temporal chase scene in which the hero must negotiate traffic in one timeframe while "following" a vehicle more than half a week in the past. To begin with, this time it's the bad guy blowing people up, which is always a good thing. No, it's not the odious Man on Fire all over again-fortunately, it's quite a bit better than that. Denzel Washington as ATF agent Doug CarlinĮven some viewers may have a feeling of déjà vu, what with odd bits of God talk and spiritual references juxtaposed with fingers being lopped off, duct-taped faces and prisoners with hands affixed to steering wheels, a kidnapped damsel in deadly distress, and deadly explosions, all in a hypercaffeinated Tony Scott thriller starring a sunglasses-wearing Denzel Washington, set in a down-and-out Mexican/Gulf area city, and featuring a quasi-christological climax. ![]()
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