Instead, it’s four days and six hours ago, which the scientists explain away as having to do with processing delays due to the huge amount of information being fed to them. But Doug, being a man with superior powers of observation, notices things, such as the view presented not taking place in real time, or at least not his time. Doug is there to look for anything hinky as the local scenes unfold on command center’s very big screen. The catch is that it can only be seen once. He’s told that it’s a super-secret satellite link station, one that can zero in with amazing detail on any location and from multiple angles. His ability to see both the big picture and the small details with one glance impresses the heck out of a special agent (Val Kilmer at his most vanilla) brought in from Washington to head up his own investigation, and Doug soon finds himself in a super-tech command center set up in makeshift fashion on the banks of the Mississippi. The explosion is soon deemed to be the work of terrorists of some sort and so crack FBI agent Doug Carlin (Denzel Washington), accent on the last syllable, is brought in to investigate. The time is now, sort of, and the action begins with a riverboat full of happy people, schoolchildren and enlisted men mostly, being blows to smithereens. One that flows in very, very slow motion. From there, the list of good things to be found drops precipitously from the wry delights of Adam Goldberg’s uber-nerd right down to direction by Tony Scott that seems to be moving in a time/space continuum separate from the film itself. It’s not just the houses scattered like so many toys carelessly flung away by a disinterested child, it’s also the fine veil of mold that encrusts everything. The second best thing that can be said about this otherwise benighted exercise is that by filming a few scenes in the ravaged Ninth Ward of that city, the devastation that Katrina caused there is brought home in a potent, immediate fashion. The best thing that can be said about DEJA VU is that it pumped some much needed revenue into New Orleans and its environs.
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