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4.9 out of 10

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  • Starring: Denzel Washington, James Caviezel, Paula Patton
  • Summary: Everyone has experienced the unsettling mystery of deja vu, but what if the feelings were actually warnings sent from the past or clues to the future? It is deja vu that unexpectedly guides ATF agent Doug Carlin (Washington) through an investigation into a shattering crime. Called in to recover evidence after a bomb sets off a cataclysmic explosion on a New Orleans Ferry, Carlin is about to discover that what most people believe "is only in their heads" is actually something far more powerful - and will lead him on a mind-bending race to save hundreds of innocent people. (Touchstone Pictures)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 32
  3. Negative: 2 out of 32
  1. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: William Arnold
    83
    It's an ingratiating star vehicle and elegant entertainment.
  2. Empire
    Reviewed by: Adam Smith
    60
    Nobody does vapid bollocks as enjoyably as Tony Scott, and while this isn't as inventive as "Man On Fire" or as compelling as "Crimson Tide," it's still the right side of dumb.
  3. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Rick Groen
    38
    Definition of redundant: A formulaic Hollywood pic that calls itself Déjà Vu.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 35 out of 67
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 67
  3. Negative: 26 out of 67
  1. grandpajoe6191
    6
    The movie starts out cool and brazen, but in the end it barely manages to hold itself from the tireless cliches it created. A movie I would recommend to rent & watch.… Expand
    • 4 of 4 users said yes
  2. BallisticYours
    5
    Agent Doug only went back in time once, as shown in him popping up in the hospital..the ambulance in the blown-up shack was there just to add drama that things seem to be coming to predictable end, since Doug hadn't gone back in time then. Same thing with the bloody clothes and Doug's fingerprints all over Claire's apartment. Tony Scott and crew should hv studied their time travel theories better. Heck,maybe they should have read their script, since one of the scientists used the Mississippi River analogy that once u change an event, it will spew into a different travel line. It's really all inconsistent. But have to admit, that car chase scene,no matter ridiculous, looked cool. The Back to the Future films are the best time-travel films since the people behind them were really intellectuals, and thought the storylines out before producing them. Deja vu is bordering on fantasy..Lord of the Rings had more reality than this film!!… Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  3. NickA.
    3
    I really wanted to like this film but unfortunately even allowing for the always dependable Mr Washington it was absolute nonsense. Of course in many films you have to suspend disbelief but here even I was laughing at the preposterous plot and the so called explanation for this version of time travel. The big problem here is for all the action the film lacked any real suspense and by the end I couldn't care less what happened, if the director doesnt make you care enough about the characters then that will surely disconnect the viewer. I actually fast forwarded the last 30 minutes as I was so bored, but thought ok I really should watch it through in the hope that it would rise above the mediocre! sadly it didn't! utter nonsense, poor direction, a waste of a good cast, I could go on... Denzel Washingtons star is fading fast and any more films like this will surely put the lights out on his career.… Expand
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