Doesn't the title explain it all?? At least, this is how I interpreted it after watching Denzel's latest. You've seen a million movies just like this one.
Trust me. I don't have anything against time travel movies. If exploited well, the results can be anywhere between delightful (Back to the future) and adequate (Frequency, The Lake House etc.). deja vu makes a complete mess of it. The rules are not clear. You see, in any time travel setup, it is important to establish the rules. If you make them up as you go, it is so frustrating, like having to use cheats to get past a tough level in a video game.
Anyway, among the few things that save the movie from being a complete waste of your time are Denzel's class A performance (yet another one) and Adam Goldberd's small presence as the 'uber geek in-charge' of the time travel mechanism. The only thing that's new is that the terrorist is not an Islamic fundamentalist.
Watch it if you like Micheal Bay action movies. This one however is from Tony Scott (Enemy of the State & Man on Fire).
I hope someone from Gabtan's circle watches this and gets 'inspired' enough to remake it in Tamil. Me thinks that watching Gabtan traveling back in time to stop terrorists would be worth the effort.
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This one indeed looked like more of the same, so I'm glad I just said no .. thanks for the warning!
I can imagine how will captain's movies on these lines come out... it will be real fun... maybe something like this will beat the all time classic 'simha...
haha.. isnt captain already working on an intergalactic cop thriller with Goutham ? the fourth part of his cop 'trilogy' ?
Yes it would be fun to know captain moved back in time to father his own son :D. Pretty much liek Chuck Norris.
Correct. This felt like the murder of Roger Acroyd. For the entire book you are lead one way without even giving one single clue about who the killer is... and at teh end the answer is sprung up on you... when you look back there is nothing to even hint that the author had tried to give you clues. So what is the point in making such a movie ? You will only end up being cheated.
There is one small clue though.. at the end the girl does not get killed two hours before the ferry blast.. so you are given a clue that you CAN change the past... but a tad too late.
That is what makes teh movie irritating. The script writers had the opportunity to give one hell of a movie with this concept... but came up with a Roger Ackroyd. Dissappointing.
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