| | | What if You Could Change the Past?
Academy Award winner Denzel Washington (Best Actor, Training Day, 2001) joins forces with blockbuster producer Jerry Bruckheimer and mega-hit director Tony Scott for Deja Vu - the powerful, fast-paced action-thriller with a spectacular mind-bending twist. Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin (Washington) gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a time-shifting surveillance device to help prevent crime. But can it help Carlin change the past? Hold on to your seat for an explosive and intriguing thrill ride you'll want to experience again and again.
"...some first-class genre fun." Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
"...[Scott's] approach is perfectly suited to the picture's time-shifting, multitasking structure." Michael Rechtshaffen, The Hollywood Reporter
"It's an ingratiating star vehicle and elegant entertainment." William Arnold, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Editor's Note
After the success of 2004's MAN ON FIRE, director Tony Scott and Denzel Washington teamed up once again--this time alongside high-powered producer Jerry Bruckheimer--to deliver this big-budget spectacle of an action picture set in post-Katrina New Orleans. The city is delivered another crushing blow when a ferry explodes, killing over 500 innocent citizens. Only this time, nature wasn't the cause of the tragedy. Enter ATF officer Doug Carlin (Washington), who is recruited by a newly formed FBI unit (headed by Val Kilmer) to help track down the killer (a Timothy McVeigh-esque Jim Caviezel). When a body is found floating in the river, it is determined that the victim was murdered before the ferry blast occurred. Unfortunately, the victim was the impossibly beautiful Claire Kuchever (Paula Patton), whose death has begun to torment Carlin. Adding a new level to the investigation is a top-secret FBI invention, which allows a select group to view the past on screen as if it had been videotaped days earlier. The more Carlin sees of Kuchever, the more connected to her he becomes, until he decides to risk his life by traveling back in time and altering the course of history.Plausibility isn't the number one reason to watch a Jerry Bruckheimer movie, and DÉJÀ VU is certainly no exception. This time around, however, Bruckheimer wisely recruited Scott and Washington to bring their expertise to the project. The result is another stylish and atmospheric drama/thriller/romance/action-adventure hybrid, which raises interesting questions as it entertains.
| Features | Audio: English, French, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Deleted Scenes | | Dubbed: French, Spanish | | Extended Scenes | | Featurette: The Surveillance Window - Go Back In Time With The Filmmakers & Experience Behind-The-Scenes Moments With The Filmmakers | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: French, Spanish | | This Is A Blu-Ray DVD Made For Blue-Laser Format Players Which Produce Higher Quality Picture And Sound |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Déjà Vu - DVD Review By: Jason Morgan - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 4/15/2007 11:18 PM | | To the film's credit, it succeeds in its suspense and action, mostly due to Washington acting and Scott's pension for a quick pace. Unfortunately, the horribly complicated and intriguing problem of space-time dimensional travel is illogically wrapped to make Déjà vu just as generic as Bruckheimer's other productions - highly explosive action with a dumb-as-dirt premise. ...read the full review |
| Déjà Vu - DVD By: Mary K. Williams - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 4/24/2007 9:28 AM | | Beginning with a horrific bombing of the New Orleans Canal Street Ferry, Déjà Vu is a visually intense movie. Reminiscent somewhat of the sci-fi plot, images and film techniques of Spielberg’s Minority Report, Tony Scott employs a combination of a high definition Genesis, Time Track, and Lydar cameras to create Déjà Vu....read the full review |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Buena Vista |
| Release Date: 5/30/2008 |
| Running Time: 126 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2006 | | Catalog ID: 5398203 | | UPC: 00786936730401 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 2.55:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Total Film
4 stars out of 5 -- "Brimming with emotion and suspense....An electric thriller made by a filmmaker who's left his glitchy toys at home." 02/01/2007 46ReelViews 8 of 10
Wedding the phrase "Jerry Bruckheimer production" with the words "intelligent screenplay" might seem to be an unimaginable mismatch, but it has happened. Deja Vu, the new thriller from Bruckheimer and director Tony Scott, impresses with both the complexity of its storyline and its willingness to allow things to develop at their own pace without interjecting a lot of needless action scenes into the early proceedings to keep viewers attentive. Deja Vu contains its share of action, but it comes later in the film. In fact, one could argue that the movie features one of the most original car chase sequences ever committed to celluloid...Deja Vu is a little long, but it covers a lot of ground. It's an imperfect motion picture, but it has lots to recommend it, and the more egregious flaws don't become apparent until post-movie ruminations. - James Berardinelli
Variety 8 of 10
A wrinkle in time gives texture and cinematic power to Tony Scott's exquisitely rendered "Deja Vu." The deliberate explosion of a New Orleans ferry carrying hundreds of U.S. sailors triggers what at first looks like the ultimate "CSI" episode care of producer Jerry Bruckheimer...In a visually inventive, mind-twisting chase, Carlin tracks the bomber, ID'd as Carroll Oerstadt (Jim Caviezel), simultaneously in the present and four days prior by using a "time-window" portable viewfinder device...Cinema's natural felicities for time and action have seldom felt as beautifully dovetailed...Pic is a technical marvel at the highest level, with Scott regulars (including lenser Paul Cameron, editor Chris Lebenzon and production designer Chris Seagers) operating at full, imaginative throttle...Big Easy locales, filmed post-Katrina, are lavishly used. - Robert Koehler
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