mistercellaneous

i watched the movie deja vu the other night. you know, the recently released denzel washington/val kilmer movie where he travels back in time to stop a terrorist attack. yeaaaaa. if believe-ability is a major factor in whether you like a movie or not, do yourself a favor and skip this one. it was produced by jerry bruckheimer and directed by tony scott. two big hollywood names with some big movies under their respective belts. usually, i like tony scott films, check out this list of movies he’s directed. pretty impressive. i thought every aspect of this movie was pretty good, except one. yea, that whole time traveling thing … weak. allow me to try and explain without spoiling, humor me here:

a ferry boat explodes on the water in new orleans. denzel plays an atf agent investigating the explosion. val kilmer plays a portly, quick witted fbi agent in charge of his own investigative team. obviously, he wants denzel on that team. they are experimenting with a new technology that gives them the ability to watch any event, anywhere once it is four days and six hours in the past. this technology uses satellite images and is capable of capturing images from just about any angle. the only snag is, they have to wait until that event is four days and six hours in the past to access this footage. once they have the footage, they can record exactly what they see and view it from any angle at the second they are viewing it, but they cannot rewind and view other angles. think live streaming video, i guess.

as if this wasn’t confusing enough, the actors whiz through explanations of how this works and how this is possible in like 15 seconds. folding time to create a wormhole? say whaaat? that’s all i remember. it seems like the director and producer thought, hell if we zoom through how this shit is supposed to work fast enough the audience will forget and just focus on the rest of the movie. oh, and if you’re having trouble swallowing and believing this part, wait until the end of the movie. they start sending objects and people back in time for purposes i won’t reveal here. this is a good movie, just un-fucking-believable. i like denzel washington, i like val kilmer, i don’t, however, care too much for theories like the einstein-rosen bridge. not in movies for that matter. therefore, on my 100% scale, deja vu will receive a 79%.

deja vu? no thanks, one time should suffice.