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But for Hollywood, reality cannot interfere with ideology. This sort of thing is in the news everyday. The movie’s perfect example of this is the terrorist who uses a vehicular IED directed against American troops. Such plots have nothing in common with the daily news and show Hollywood’s obsession to project guilt on the United States for actions committed by others. Similarly, the latest “ Mission Impossible” demonstrates that the spread of weapons of mass destruction is not through Pakistan and North Korea, as is well-documented, but is actually conducted by rogue elements in the American government working through Crusader elements in the Vatican. This deceit works about as successfully as it did in movies like “ Timeline” (2003), and “ The Jacket” (2005) which are also supposedly about time travel, but whose underlying points are that America is responsible for the spread of weapons of mass destruction (“Timeline”), and that returning American soldiers have been psychologically damaged by their supposed crimes in Iraq (“The Jacket”). In order to catch the terrorist, Agent Carlin must join forces with the FBI and use a machine called “Snow White,” which is described as the same spying technology the army uses in Iraq and which, Shanti informs him, “can access any surveillance technology available to any government agency.” The whole sequence reeks of Patriot Act dementia, which, together with the repeated reference to Oklahoma City, government neglect of New Orleans, and the war in Iraq, combine to overwhelm the dramatic premise and makes it obvious that the movie is trying hard to disguise its political attacks under cover of an action movie. The person who does the murdering is terrorist Carroll Oerstadt ( James Caviezel) who blows up a ferry in New Orleans harbor containing 543 American servicemen and their families, all of whom, remarkably, are hugging and smiling in slow motion up until the moment of their deaths. Good fun.“Déjà vu” is about ATF agent Doug Carlin’s ( Denzel Washington) quest through time to save the beautiful and dead Claire Kuchever ( Paula Patton) from being murdered. But it's Denzel himself, ambling through the nonsense with just the right degree of twinkling insouciance, who keeps you watching. Tony Scott's visuals are as stylishly empty as ever - the strange burnished effect of the time travelling sequences is especially lovely. The actual story, which involves a murdered witness and an evil gulf war veteran (glassily played by Jim Caviezel), is your standard time-paradox puzzle box, neatly solved in a twisty final act.

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Amusingly, the machine has a portable in-car version, which allows Denzel to carry on a car chase in two simultaneous time frames. Apparently, FBI boffins have built a machine that allows Denzel's copper to spy on events four days in the past via an ill-explained procedure involving wormholes and a camcorder. The low-key, realistic opening is just a blind for Deja Vu's central gimmick: a form of time-travelling police surveillance. Running on auto-pilot (cheeky grin, a touch of macho, you know the routine) he is nonetheless endlessly fascinating.ĭeja Vu opens with an explosion on a boat packed with holidaymakers and children, a grim beginning that sets an appropriately sombre tone for the story. Here he plays a Port Authority cop investigating a bomb on a New Orleans ferry. Deja Vu is a perfect example: a conspiracy thriller enlivened with a twist of wacky sci-fi, it is made memorable by Denzel's eye-watering charisma. Funny thing about Denzel Washington: you can almost guarantee he will be more interesting than any given movie in which he appears.

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