Deja Vu
Since “Twelve Monkeys“, there is no need to make another “time travel” movie, as it was brilliantly done. But people will try, anyway.
An ATF agent travels back in time to save a woman from being murdered, falling in love with her during the process.
Let me put this again: since Twelve Monkeys, which explained beautifully how time travel works, there is no need to another time travel movie (maybe saving “The Butterfly Effect“), but people still try. And I don’t see way.
The movie starts with a good idea: some sort of technology that can see the past. That’s the good thing. The story, then, goes around some governmental people tracking some explosion that killed thousands of people, including marines and navy people. That would be a good thriller if they kept things that way.
Unfortunately, the writers thought a simple thriller wasn’t good enough, so they decided to add some romance. And did that in a stupid way: suddenly, out of nowhere, the main character decide to go after some chick. And nobody question if he is not going too far, if he is really doing his job, that kind of thing that would normally happen in a government.
There is a problem, though: the chick is dead, and they are seeing her in the past. What to do now? Let’s send the main character to the past too! And, from there, the movie go downhill. Maybe if writers read something about time travel (the theories) and saw “The Butterfly Effect”, they would know that things change when you change the past. But no, things go all the same way, as if they guy was already there. Oh, and he saves the girl! How would he go back to the past and save the girl if the girl isn’t dead now?
Maybe it is me, but it seems that Denzel Washington is playing the same character over and over again: government/army guy, though, with a good heart, yada yada yada. I mean, this is what he did in “Man on Fire”, “Courage Under Fire” and “The Bone Collector”. Really tiresome. And, for some reason, all the actors follow his lead: all tired, no great acting…
Fun for the first time, even funnier to forget it two hours late.
