Review: Deja Vu

Honestly, I watched this movie because I wanted to watch stuff blow up in a mindless fashion. Going by that criteria, the movie succeeds and can be recommended. However, the movie is otherwise not terribly good. It begins very promising, but then a "secret" is revealed, a secret that is explained in a very clumsy fashion, and which is used and abused poorly for the rest of the movie, building from a minor implausibility to a complete collapse of the suspension of disbelief. At that point, it's all just running around and gunshots and explosions. Also, the ending chickens out from making an interesting statement and is instead 100% Hollywood, which was disappointing as it defies the internal logic of the movie itself and makes everything completely arbitrary. As per a Tony Scott, the look of the film is interesting in and of itself, with a very high contrast look and yellow-amber filters. It's a very well-photographed film, and quite interesting to look at from a purely aesthetic perspective. Otherwise, I can't recommend this film.