Everyone has experienced the unsettling mystery of déjà vu--that flash of memory when you meet someone new you feel you've known all your life or recognize a place even though you've never been there before. But what if the feelings were actually warnings sent from the past or clues to the future? It is déjà vu that unexpectedly guides ATF agent Doug Carlin 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.

This is the kind of movie that you can’t really go to in depth about its story for fear of ruining the movie for those who haven’t seen it as it does I have quite the interesting and convoluted story line that will take you two full days to wrap your head around it. This is the kind of film that after you get out of it that you and whomever you went to see it with will end up arguing about and discussing in length. And I like that in a movie, I like a film that makes you think and doesn’t just spoon feed you everything you need to know, a movie that makes you figure out a lot of its elements on your own. And if you have ever seen these kinds of movies, it actually kind of works if you think of it as two folded lines that go parallel to each other until one eventually breaks off and the other one disappears. That’s as about as obscure and about as detailed to describe what I thought of the movie without providing any spoilers, And for those who have seen it they will understand what I mean and it might give them a different insight on the film than they may have had themselves.

That’s not to say that Déjà Vu doesn’t have plenty action to fill in all the gaps when it’s not making you think or trying to figure out its puzzle because if anything this movie has a lot of action. Gun fights, explosions, sex, death defying moments the movie has everything you would expect from a Tony Scott film. If you’re the least bit familiar with Scott you will kind of know what to expect when going to the film as Scott almost always weaves this tight action film that has all the elements of a good popcorn flick plus just a little more to make it better than the rest. He makes you think in between the explosions, he makes you figure out how it all works in between the gun fights, he doesn’t give you a moment to take a breath either as he keeps coming at you fast paced and non stop as well and you got to love that kind of movie.

Denzel Washington is slowly falling out of my favor as an actor, not because he isn’t any good, he’s fantastic, but because he spends nearly a decade playing the same character. In the 90’s it was the good hearted, good doer that finds himself in a world of trouble all Philadelphia and the Pelican Brief but in the recent years he has switched to the military/cop persona in almost everyone of his films. You can bet money in almost every movie he does of late he will be wielding a gun and playing either a cop or a military official. It becomes tiresome after awhile, John Q was a nice change of pace except he forgot to leave the gun at home and in the Inside Man he adds some good natured humor to his police officer persona but sadly he is still playing a cop. The same goes for Déjà vu, he’s an ATF agent this time and he’s still playing the cop who is trying to solve a mystery. It’s time for a change again Denzel, time for a rebirth ala Training Day once more. As far as the other actor’s go none of them makes a leap out of Denzel’s shadow as this is his movie and no one else’s which is a shame as Val Kilmer is one of my favorite actors. Sometimes a little too clichéd, but in the end one heck of a kiss ass movie.

Grade: B+