Deja Vu (DVD)

With sexy Denzel Washington sniffing an Oscar with ‘American Gangster’, what better way to warm up for that with this cracking action thriller, a real surprise. The guy is so good at this type of countdown action genre he makes any script look good, his stand alone detective against the world routine the best out there, how ever preposterous the script is, as the case is here. He did it in the enjoyable ‘Out of Time’, a much under rated thriller and was brilliant in Crimson Tide with director Tony Scott, this their third film together. I think he’s the coolest movie star out there right now and that screen presence makes you want to rent or pack the multiplexes on a ...

Denzel Washington teams up with director Tony Scott again for Deja Vu (Previous film Man On Fire). He stars in this movie as Doug Carlin a police agent with the ATF. A ferry filled with navy crew & their families explodes at the very beginning of the film, killing over 543 people. Doug is on the scene immediately trying to find clues as to why this has occurred. Val Kilmer plays FBI Agent Paul Pryzwarra leader of a new unit which has been set up. Deciding that they like and trust Doug they decide to let him in on the new technology they have developed. Using the technology they hope that they can solve the case. It allows them to look anywhere ...

As we were lacking rentals on the list with Amazon my partner added some DVD's he thought we would both enjoy and when this one landed through the letterbox I was a bit apprehensive as to whether or not it was something I was likely to enjoy. Written by Bill Marsilii and Terry Rossio and directed by Tony Scott and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer this is an action, drama, romance, thriller and sci-fi all rolled into one so they were certainly trying to cover all bases with this movie. Released in the Cinema in December 2006 I was suprised not to have heard anything about this movie before but then this was over 2 years ago and my memory is not the best ...