2006's Denzel Washington Thriller Movie Deja Vu

Keep Redoing It Until It's Right

A ferry filled with over 500 Navy sailors and their families is blown up in New Orleans on. ATF Agent Doug Carlin (Denzel Washington) is brought in to assist FBI agent Andrew Pryzwarra (Val Kilmer) in the investigation, and gets attached to an experimental FBI surveillance unit, one that uses space folding technology to look back a into the past. While tracking down the bomber, Carlin gets an idea in his head; could they use the device to actually travel back in time and not only prevent the bombing but also the murder of a local woman whose truck was used in the bombing?

I saw the trailer for this back in November and thought it looked interesting because it dealt with reliving the same events over, much like the new show Day Break, but I wasn't exactly sure how it was supposed to be done.

I had no idea what to expect as it began to unfold like your standard detective thriller with a ferry exploding, ATF Agent Doug Carlin (Denzel) questioning witnesses, families of victims, watching surveillance videos - your standard gumshoe. Then it got weird after FBI agent Andrew Pryzwarra (Kilmer) brings Carlin into the FBI's investigation, and shows him a experimental FBI surveillance unit which can look back in time four and a half days utilizing satellite images. I thought "Okay, I can buy that."

The main focus of Carlin's is that of a young woman, Claire, who was killed around the same time as the ferryboat explosion. He believes that if they can find her killer, they'll also find the person who planted the bomb.

But then Carlin starts questioning it and eventually they tell him that it is indeed a kind of time machine. From here on out, the movie changes from a standard detective thriller into a sci-fi time travel paradox film.