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The time-space paradox is a pretty complicated idea to wrap your head around, and when a movie gets it right, it usually makes it a good movie. But when it gets it wrong, even a decent plot usually can't save it. However, I guess Deja Vu is the exception because it actually got the time paradox right but the writing was way too over the top to grasp.

Deja Vu stars Denzel Washington, a criminal investigator who is recruited by a special unit of the FBI after witnessing Denzel's skills at the crime scene. However, we later find out that his special unit has the ability to watch, in real time, what is going on 4 days into the past. Its kind of a hokey machine/idea to grasp. A time machine would have been more feasible in my opinion, but alas, we continue this adventure with our hero Denzel to save a woman and the passengers of a ferry boat that died in the present but are still alive in the past. Denzel insists that they put him in some sort of chamber (<---I guess we do get our time machine after all) to send him back in time, and so he goes in an attempt to try and save the girl and prevent the crime that he was originally assigned to.

The ending was kind of like "What the heezies?!" But take a lesson from the Doc, and you'll realize that it actually makes sense. It's actually pretty cool when you understand it. I applaud the writers for actually taking the time to think it through . . . And yet there was something about this movie that makes it pretty mediocre. With movies, the viewer is suppose to believe that in that in the film's own world, certain things are possible. In Deja Vu, this voyeuristic means of seeing into the past wasn't believable at all. Come on, using a time warp camera thing? There wasn't even a transition into the SciFi genre, making it even harder to buy the idea.

Deja Vu lacks in quality and certain rudimentary cinema rules (i.e. having a decent story). This movie may not be a complete waste of your time, but there are so many good movies out that I'd recommend skipping this forgettable film.